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I have been trying to play bughouse swiss tournaments, I would say 3/4 tournaments most of my partners just don't communicate or even respond to when I try to. It is making it really just a luck thing for me to be able to advance my ELO. I was able to take my ELO from low 1000s to 1200 in one day when I found a good 1000 ELO player who would communicate and we played for 3 hours. But since then I have tried 3 tournaments and most of my games I am stuck with players who just won't talk. Problem in the tournament is that the very next match I will be teamed up with the same player. I have resorted to blocking non communicating players so I wont get matched with them again, but I don't want to do that.

Please do more bughouse tournaments!

I am in australia and love to play bughouse with my friend, but I cant find much bughouse tournaments. As far as i know, there is only one bughouse tournament per day that i can attend, but no longer can because of school, so i can't really enjoy playing bughouse with my friend as much. I also think there is not much tournaments because of the timezone. When its day for Australia its night for America and most other countries so then there wouldn't be as much tournaments and when it is night for australia it is day for America and most other countries and thats when they have tournaments. Can you please make more bughouse tornaments for AEST timezones?

Hey all, When I see bughouse streaming, the streamer has 2 boards of equal size up to watch the game. But when I am playing bughouse, I only see a small tiny board of my partner. I can't find a setting where I can see a full size board along with my own board during the game.

On my phone, sometimes I cannot put a piece on the board. How to fix this? The drag and drop just won't work. Usually when I got 2 of the same pieces, it malfunctions. I cannot select it and not drop it.

Hi Guys , I ( @chessking_121 ) and @learning_by_doing are organizing the first ever Bug house League ! For more info , join this club https://www.chess.com/club/not-so-pro-bughouse-league The league starts in August - September but we will have a preseason an d weekly tournaments We are also searching for 2 more organizers , for applying , PM @chessking_121 . Thanks

So, My bughouse rating is balancing between 1500 en 1600 for some time now. I am playing for some time now with the same partner who has a significantly lower rating <600 , and I have noticed in the last tournament we've played (4/6) that my rating went up more than my bughouse partners', +19 (1529 -> 1548) rsp +2 (578 ->560). Now, this was especially strange, since the last two games of the tournament my opponent didnt move, but my partner was playing stronger rated blitz players, even for me, and was winning the game, which resulted in them quitting, with minimal interference from my side. He deserved to gain more points than I, so it is a bit ironic that i've gained more than him. Any explonations for that?

Here Fancy (white) has a m3. Can you see the mate? He lost tho by his partner but i assume he was going to deliver checkmate!

https://www.chess.com/live?#g=4874654290

My first time to play bug house game

Sometimes in bughouse swisses my partner or opponents just sit there for 3 minutes so I can move once and wait or try and win in 2:59.9 seconds and that's unfair

Can we have more tournaments that are not 3|0? I'm not that great at blitz bughouse, and after what seems like a little time, I have 10 seconds left on the clock.

A bughouse tournament club has been made, and I thought members of this club would like to join. https://www.chess.com/club/bughouse-championship

I thought there was supposed to be no lag compensation... how the hell am I up 5 sec on Botulidium but my partner is down more then a second on my opponent?? and this is why chess.com is not ready for bughouse yet... embarassing

Yeah! We defeated them!) @moraguemaismoins, thank you for this wonderful game. My biggest win... My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv3DUf1qaJl1KS9jTdULhQg

You should fix the matchmaking system for the Swiss tournaments. Why did I (800) and a 900 face two 1800s? It makes no sense and practically gives the 1800s a free win Maybe have the highest be with the lowest and then all of that stuff?

Dear Complaint Department, Bughouse tournament games do not time-out after whatever appropriate time-period if one of the team members on either team does not move. I read somewhere that in top-level games, a 30 or 15 second difference can be effectively flagged for a win. While I'm not at that level, I would suggest that 30 or max 45 seconds elapse before a player who does not move automatically forfeits for that team (on a 3-minute game). This happens at something like 15 or 20 or 30 seconds for non-tournament games. Why doesn't automatic forfeit work for tournament games? Next query: Considering the first complaint above, how can you be paired with someone who is not actively playing in a tournament? This observation via Chuck Moulton, who observed this during a test of Bughouse Arena. It's not just a test for Bughouse Arena. It is negatively impacting current Swiss-system Bughouse tournaments. I've had this happen several times where I'm shouldered with a lame-duck team member who doesn't move. If I resign a game or two (tournament), I'm excluded from the next round, or possibly the whole tournament, while being joined, without being dropped. But the lame-duck team-member is apparently allowed to play another game even though not having moved for 2 games, negatively impacting my score and rating and tournament performance. The latter is extremely strange and weird. It simply shouldn't be happening. I haven't said anything before, assuming it gets fixed automatically because other people will say something. But, it had to come from another highly rated player making this observation in the test of an as-of-yet to-be-deployed update or upgrade. Not very keen or practical. Next item of business: When I finish a live game, I'm offered the opportunity to rate my opponent with a simple "Thumbs-Up" or "Thumbs-down" emoji. If "Thumbs-Up," I'm offered a quick-link to say "Good Game." If "Thumbs-down," I'm offered the opportunity to "Report" (for any number of reasons). Why can't I do this for my team member? For example: My team member does not move, or my team member resigns or aborts a game? I think it would be a good idea to offer a rating, possibly even a public average, on a 1 to 5 star ratio (available in halves) for how a Bughouse team member conducts themselves. No different than rating an opponent. My team member didn't communicate anything and dumped pieces: 1-star. My team member exchanged communication and we won because of this, or it was a good game irrespective: 5-stars. Lastly, can you implement a required 10 or 20 Bughouse games before individuals are allowed to join tournaments? There are regular comments and questions in pre-tournament chat about "how do I play this." Like learning the rules of chess, and learning to play basic chess, could Chess.com implement a training system to walk players through the basics of Bughouse chess, including screens to point out clocks, pieces, buttons used to communicate, etc. I think this would improve play for a lot of bughouse players if we weren't shouldered with individuals who did not know how to communicate or understand that they can communicate, or should heed communication from a team member. Bughouse is a TEAM game. Players teamed or paired together should act appropriately toward each other, instead of ignoring communication. I know that Chess.com can't do anything about players who don't care. But at the least, before allowing someone to play Bughouse, a tutorial/training should be provided, and the person should be required to check a box saying: "I understand how this works."

Is there a way to make partner board bigger?