Bug Reports

The game is 4PC. In one of the games, I first blocked the ability to move the pieces, and then they started walking themselves. I didn't understand at all what it was and why is the system walking my figures instead of me?

4PC FFa. At some point in the game, it would not let me make some moves, no matter how many times I refreshed. Some moves I could make, some not.

+ everything that Den25 and everybody else said after that untested/unprofessional update. So many bugs.

What's going on with Chess.com so many bugs, the website is so over-complicated for what should be really simple. It's such a shame as there's good features but every time someone changes something its screwing other things up.

FoW was working perfectly well, why start messing around with it? Now its completely screwed.

Does anyone from Chess.com even read the bug reports? Does anything ever get fixed. Seems completely hopeless

Yes, yes, and yes. But the variants team is quite small and overworked, so progress is slow. Hopefully this will change with the new variants community series, but I doubt it.

https://www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/53688533/70/1

in this spell chess game i tried to promote but the game wouldn't let me despite the dot coming up to show it as a legal move and i ran out of time, even in making moves to analyse the game will not let me push the pawn to h8. it shouldn't be impossible to promote there right? or is promoting just not a thing in spell chess?

I don't get why i lost in spell chess: my opponent king was in checkmate, and i lost instead of him, pretty sure it's a bug.

https://www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/53691078

Hi! The 4-player game is not working well for some time now.

It disconnects and reconnects users all the time, and hangs the matches so many users can chat but can't move.

Another top priority bug: If you are editing a 14x14 board and use a 2 player preset, the board is really big. Another bug is that in variants such as Rookmate, the 7 check on white is almost invisible, so make the 7 check dark. Another bug is that the fog of war background image is visible and I HATE the fog of war background image. https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53663249/25/1 In this game, if you click the left arrow button then make a variation then click the left arrow button again, you can't see the original checkmate if you click right.

2PC COORDINATES ARE BROKEN https://prnt.sc/tIXhRa_KXBVC

4PC Antichess is buggy as anything right now it is not allowing people to make legal moves either a capture when required or a move. Sometimes you have to refresh the page to allow you to move but this doesn't always work and is not possible under time constraits.
Also if a premove of an only legal move is made there are times that the game does not update that the previous player has moved and so you are not aware that the bug has kicked in and you end up being timed out sometimes depsite making a move with minute+ on the clock.
Too many of the higher ranked players are losing ranking due to timing out when trying to play as normal. Also what is with the greying out of the timed-out and resigned players the old format of having them haloed as better as they are not wall pieces as in other varients.

Nothing is broken here. Coordinates do work as they are supposed to.

I am sure it wasn't an issue at the time you wrote this message.

Won't be fixed.

Already fixed (as well as most other things reported in this thread). Fix will be released later today.

You can go for checkmate using jump spell even when you are in check

https://www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/53733345/

Chess.com SPELL CHESS GLITCH (lost me some rating):
When I was playing a game of spell chess on chess.com just now, I checkmated my opponent and froze my piece and his piece. So after his next move, the freeze was gone and I could take his king. However the chess.com registered it as checkmate for him as after his move it was checkmate and it thought the checkmate was his but the checkmate "belongs" to me actually. Look at this game.
https://www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/53733651/37/3

that happens even when it is checkmate the king. (not capture the king)

Chess.com code should be changed, instead of saying "If checkmate, whoever moves before wins" Instead, check for what piece is delivering the checkmate.

And also there shouldn't be "checkmate" in spell chess, just make it capture the king, so there won't be issues like this.

people can chat in anon and disabling chat doesn't work (at least there)

I think either this is a bug or the description for spell chess is inaccurate. Let's say you have the following situation where the king is in check by the rook. I think you should be able to freeze the bishop and take the rook with the king, however the game does not let you. The rules of spell chess states "Frozen pieces do not check or checkmate kings. Thus, you can use the Freeze to temporarily cancel checks." This sounds like you should be able to capture the rook. Of course the opponent can simply freeze you back and instantly win the game, but I think that whether they have a freeze or not shouldn't prevent you from making that move anyways.