Android Bugs When Displaying Completed Games.

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KingMoored

Whenever I select the last game I played from my list of Completed Games on Android, my pieces (KingMoored), are displayed at the top of the board and my opponents pieces are displayed at the bottom of the board.

Also, when I step through the moves, all captures are being credited to the wrong player.

Notice the move white pawn on c4 captures black pawn on d5 (5. cxd5 ). The black pawn is credited to my opponent playing black?!

Both these bugs do not occur when I look at my game directly after playing a game, nor do they occur when displayed in Game Review and Analysis.

I can temporarily fix both these bugs if I go into my Android Device Settings and Clear the Chess.com Application Data, however these bugs do often reappear again for no repeatable reason. (I sometimes think the problem is the result of switching between Web Viewing Games and Android Viewing of Games, but I am not sure).

I have reported this bug to support, but was told the problem is the result of En Passant.

Martin_Stahl

What's your app version?

KingMoored

Android 4.6.14

This bug only appeared back in November.

Martin_Stahl

I haven't played any recent games but loading my last played games work correctly. I'm on the beta app, with 4.6.15 so don't know if there's a newer version or if that's beta only right now.

KingMoored

Here's what I see for your last game Martin:

It's split screen, Android on top, Web on bottom

KingMoored

Note, I’ve also tried to fix these bugs on Android by switching my Piece and Board Theme to default, and also turning ON/OFF the Quick Analysis setting, but neither of these have had any affect on these bugs.

Edit:

* Uninstalling/Installing from the Google Play Store does not fix this bug.

*Also it's interesting to note that the Banner Declaring the Winner in the first screenshot in my original post, displays my opponents current rating, not mine.

KingMoored

Selecting Options > Flip Board does place my pieces at the bottom of the board:

However, captures are still credited to the wrong player:

KingMoored

I believe I have discovered the cause for this bug described above where my pieces get displayed at the top of the screen and my opponents pieces get displayed at the bottom of the screen (and all captures get credited to the wrong player).

After playing my last opponent and stepping through the moves from our game, I navigated to my Opponents Profile on Android and selected a game from his Game Archive to step through. When I looked at his games from his Archive, his pieces always appeared at the bottom of the screen and his opponents always displayed at the top of the screen.

I then navigate back to my own Game Archive and select our game, and now my pieces are always stuck displaying at the top of the screen and his are always displaying at the bottom of the screen and all captures are credited to the wrong player.

I can fix this problem if I go into my Android Device Settings and Clear the Chesscom Application Data.

Could someone try the steps above to see if you can be reproduce this bug on Android?

KingMoored

UPDATE:

It's only necessary to navigate to my Opponents Profile to cause this bug to appear.

Screenshot of the game from my archive:

Screenshot of the game from my archive, after navigating to my Opponents Profile:

KingMoored

It looks like version v4.6.16 of the Android Mobile App has fixed this bug. I tried several times to reproduce this bug, but couldn't.
Good Job to the Android Development Team!

KingMoored

I was wrong, v4.6.16 Android Mobile app does not fix this bug.

At the end of my last game, I ran Game Review and then I navigated to my opponents profile to look at my opponents stats, when I returned to my Archive and selected our game the bug returned.