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Playing yesterday, I got a partner who ignored all of my suggestions: "Stall." "No Knight." Protect d8—you'll be mated."Nothing. They didn't protect the mating square, so we lost. I Blocked this player. Next game: Same partner.You'd think that blocking a player would protect you from ever having that bad partner again! But…nooo. So: ¿What is up with that? Additionally: Sometimes I join an Arena, but I know I'll have to leave at, say, 8 O'Clock. I leave the event, close "Live"…and later find out that I'd "lost" a subsequent game (sometimes two games) through "Abandonment." Seems if the software had a brain, one would be able to withdraw from the tournament, as one can with Swiss. I mean, my partner and opponent would rather not sit around for a couple minutes, just waiting for my clock to run out. They're there to play.

What is that thing??? How is it legal, or how does it make any sense??? I clicked it, and it gave 15 seconds to my opponent for real???

Martin Stahl claiming here https://www.chess.com/forum/view/site-feedback/lag-between-premoves that premoves shouldn't take time (actually I think they use a minimum of 0.1 s, but in theory they shouldn't use more(?)). The Support writes up to 2 seconds here https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken and if i understand correctly it states up to 1 second here https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues . Have anyone made any experiments with it? This could explain some random sudden clock change. Yet I am feeling that premoves take ages for me, and most of the time when my clock or my opponents clock finishes, the game ends (so there is no compensation, only the 3-3 mins).

Brackets are live for the 2021 Bughouse World Championships! Please check the groups to make sure your name appears. If you registered for the tournament and do not see your name listed, please contact @scarysnakes immediately. Open - https://challonge.com/2021BWC_Open U2000 - https://challonge.com/2021BWC_U2000

It is my pleasure to announce the return of the Bughouse World Championship (BWC)! The format this year will be a group stage followed by a single elimination bracket. Just like last year, there will be an Open section as well as a U2000 section. For more information about the tournament, check out the 2021 BWC Ruleset. Registration opens Friday October 8 and the tournament will commence on Monday October 25. Best of luck to everyone in this year’s event, I hope to see you there!

Is there any place that you can analyse your bughouse games? Any place you can see bughouse engines play against each other? I spent some time searching but couldn't find much meaningful results. Also, there are no lessons regarding variants on chess.com lessons section and this club seems quite dead too. Can anyone recommend me some useful sites or youtube channels where you can see some analysis on decent gamed that has been played?

Anyone else ever try to pick up a piece from the side of the board and get that circle with a slash thru it making it impossible to drop any pieces?Also has happened to me a year or 2 ago in Crazyhouse.Windows 10, Chrome, updated Google Chrome is up to date Version 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Yesterday, we had a situation OTB where I checkmated my opponent sacking a Q, but my partner got mated with that Q. Initially my partner's opponent put it on one square where it would have been m2, but he didn't finish the move. Then after few seconds he noticed a checkmate in 1 on another square and put the Q there checkmating my partner. It took maybe 3-4 seconds for his last move. So, my actual question is how much time does one can take for his last move when his partner has just been checkmated. Can I sit for all my remaining time searching for m1 and if I find one, will it be a draw? Will it still count as "both games finish at the same time"

Both game seeking and partner finding take too much time (game seeking is faster with a partner, if I am not wrong), it would be great, if BH had an own lobby, where people could chat, just like the ones that arena and swiss tournaments have. People could join it with buttons, also seeking a bughouse game, or playing one game would automatically put people into the chat. That would make match finding and partner finding a lot more easier and faster.

This is results last arena: 12.6. 2021. Arena works 12 minutes.

We should have a day to appreciate our partners! But when?

Opponents 3000+200, 2500+300 win +1 or +2, resing -15 How long do we play with such?

I am blocked or something. How do these things work? What should someone know about it?

when the king is castled and there's only pawns defending the king is sacking a queen on g2/g7 worth it? Assumed you have lots of different kinds of pieces - 2 knights, 1 queen, 2 bishops, 4 pawns and 1 rook.

So e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Bc5 Bxf7+ Kxf7 Nxe5+ Nxe5 Qh5+ Ke3

So back in 2020 I was using boosting to increase my rating and my account got closed,after it reopened I didn't wanna boost again but now i feel like i have to because if the difference between my current rating and my peak rating which i got from boosting gets too high i can't join the tournaments because of sandbagging protection .Long story short:Now I don't know what to do and I'm asking you to help out

Rules: No delivering checkmate. That's the only rule. Win by flag, threat of flag (player with less time has no legal moves), or if you capture all of your opponents pieces. I played around 30 games of this variant tonight with crimsonvortex, fuzzician, dunkirk1941, archdukeshrimp, seanyao1, and others. We tried 2 versions. First, if a player has no pieces down on the board, they lose. Second, if a player has no pieces on the board, but some pieces in hand, they haven't lost but must immediately place down a piece. We preferred the second. It's a very fun variant. We played with increment (and recommend this), but you don't need to. The games tend to be quite long. It's very chaotic and unintuitive, sometimes a game will be decided because one player who was winning accidentally drew the opponent's king into a mating net. Often we just accidentally delivered mate. A few example games: https://www.chess.com/game/live/12456987519 This game is instructive. When I as being attacked, I deliberately made my king unsafe so that CrimsonVortex, my opponent, couldn't continue to check me and capture material without mating me. (It turns out he could have continued with 29. Nxh8 30. Nxe6 instead. Still, N@f8 and B@h8 are thematic moves for this variant.) https://www.chess.com/game/live/12459425951 Here is another instructive game. Crimson's move 73. @g4+!! is a brilliancy, as I have no legal moves other than checkmating Crimson. I made the mistake of drawing Crimson into a position where I have no checks that aren't mate and he capitalized perfectly. https://www.chess.com/game/live/12463559953 I won this game because I set up a position where I was able to farm my opponent's pieces. From move 59, I set up what is essentially a windmill, and my opponent ran out of droppers to block with (and resigned).

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