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astronomer999

I just had the strangest game. Playing black, I fianchetto then move my bishop to h6. Somehow it jumped to a3 and then just sat there. I thought I could at least use the situation as blindfold chess practice, knowing that the board was not showing 1 piece in its true position, but no, the move list showed Bh6 and I found I couldn't advance the h pawn.If I tried to move the bishop I could see on a3, nothing happened and also if I tried to move it from h6 there was no result.  Somehow the bishop had just been taken from the board but still occupied h6.

When I asked my opponent if he could see what had happened I got no reply, but I am sure he couldn't, since he put his Q on b4 and managed to march his a pawn straight through the bishop I could see on a3.

So I resigned, being down a full piece that I still had on the board. Even I don't usually win in that situation.

Robert-Paulson

I've had this same problem, but it was with a single pawn (my g pawn from memory) and it was in a live chess game. Was that where yours was played? It is an odd glitch and I'm not sure what to do about it.

I lost that game in question as well, it would have been even worse without a bishop!

Rafael is a writer and coach at chess.com.

astronomer999

It was live. When I viewed it in the archive the bishop was on h6. Wish I had a screen grab to confirm the original weirdness

elo123

This happens to me, and what I do is go back and forth in the move history and pass over the glitchy move multiple times. Eventually it will be shown correctly.

astronomer999

Just happened again. Here is the proof

astronomer999

As you can see, the pawn which went to g3 on move 23 is on b6

And Rd6 to a6 should be impossible