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Strange time anomaly in tournament match

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Hi, I've been told to address this to Clarkey - I hope a thread is the appropriate place. If not, apologies.

So anyway, I'm playing this guy - a much better player than me - in my first tournament (I somehow WON it!!!) which was the hourly 1+0. Suddenly I realise that something weird is going on - his time goes UP whenever he makes a move.

After, I checked the lengths of the moves... check them out for yourselves. I'm 99% sure I was right. It surely doesn't add up. I'm not sure how I beat him - he finally ran out of time after about 109 seconds :D

Any ideas what's going on here???

It's lag compensation. There's a period of time between your move being made and it being received by the opponent. This time is added back onto the clock so nobody unfairly loses time.
Ok... if that's what it is - fair enough. It seems a little oddd though, how this hasn't happened in any other game, and that my opponent's time on the graph adds up to a total of over 40 seconds more than the total allotted time per player. If it is lag, would it register on the graph?

The times the graph shows appear to be a true reflection of how long we both took on our moves. My moves totalled a few seconds under a minute, my opponent's totalled well over 100 seconds :)
The time graph is only an estimation of the time. It's a rounded figure.

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