Exeter Chess Club: Lag flag

 Lag is where a delay in transmission eats away at your clock time. You can add time to your opponent's clock if they have lag problems. Lag-flagging is calling time out on a player who is experiencing lag, as in this example:

  Some joker had bagged my usual handle (DrDave) so I played under a different name - EvilTwin - for a week's trial at ICC. I was lag-flagged under similar circumstances more than once at ICC; you can make sure your interface does not have "autoflag" set, but I have never had the same experience on other servers.

 Unedited record (except to preserve the anonymity of the guilty) of rated blitz game played at the Internet Chess Club, 20 Jan 1997.

From: Daniel Sleator 
Message-Id: <199701201747.MAA07689@karnov.lm.com>
To: EvilTwin 
Subject: ICC game: (Anon) vs EvilTwin
Status: RO


[(Anon) (2141) vs. EvilTwin (1929) --- Mon Jan 20, 12:38 PM EST, 1997]
[Rated blitz match, initial time: 3 minutes, increment: 10 seconds]

   1.  d4       {0:08}  g6       {0:28}
   2.  e4       {0:11}  Bg7      {3:04}
       {Black forfeits on time} 1-0

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