[bluecalm]

Chess.com software might be the worst public facing software ever assembled. During their most popular weekly tournament (by the number of spectators) called Titled Tuesday where significant % of the world elite regularly competes they send links on a public chat to a 3rd site every 4 rounds. The reason is that there is a few minutes break and they failed implementing a clock on their side so they need 3rd party service for that.

This is one of the many, many things but imo it's the most telling. They can't even add a clock counting down the 6 minutes to their web client.

[luisgvv]

I can't believe this, but it makes sense now lol I think I heard a streamer say it was for kicking out the cheaters

[bluecalm]

Another thing is that you need to click around the chat area just before the break ends (and you need to monitor when the break ends on that 3rd party site) so the chess.com server won't throw you out of the tournament for inactivity :)

>>I think I heard a streamer say it was for kicking out the cheaters

I can't see how it can possibly help. Maybe he meant something else?