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playablecharacter wrote:

A 2450+ anon 4pc game I was winning just disappeared from the view and doesn't appear on the archive and my rating wasn't updated when we got to the end of the game; what happened?

Did it freeze or end by a timeout with a bare king?

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HSCCCB wrote:
playablecharacter wrote:

A 2450+ anon 4pc game I was winning just disappeared from the view and doesn't appear on the archive and my rating wasn't updated when we got to the end of the game; what happened?

Did it freeze or end by a timeout with a bare king?

Timeout with three bare kings; how'd you know?

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playablecharacter wrote:
HSCCCB wrote:
playablecharacter wrote:

A 2450+ anon 4pc game I was winning just disappeared from the view and doesn't appear on the archive and my rating wasn't updated when we got to the end of the game; what happened?

Did it freeze or end by a timeout with a bare king?

Timeout with three bare kings; how'd you know?

It's happened to me as well lol. I don't think the system knows how to deal with the two remaining players having no pieces.

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My chess.com just disconnects every 5sec

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I can't challenge a specific friend to any variant.

I'll start typing their name into the box but before I finish the name it autocompletes with a different yet similar name. I copypasted their name into the name field and started the challenge, but instead it started a challenge against random.

I've been playing against this player for a few months in normal chess and Chess960, and thought it might be fun to move to variants.... but I can't send them the challenge.

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fevixdarkwatch wrote:

I can't challenge a specific friend to any variant.

I'll start typing their name into the box but before I finish the name it autocompletes with a different yet similar name. I copypasted their name into the name field and started the challenge, but instead it started a challenge against random.

I've been playing against this player for a few months in normal chess and Chess960, and thought it might be fun to move to variants.... but I can't send them the challenge.

Send this link to your friend: https://www.chess.com/variants

The reason that copypasting didn't work is because the variants server does not recognize players who have never connected to it. Once your friend has connected for the first time, the name will appear, but keep in mind that you can only challenge players that have at least one tab open to a chess.com/variants page. Otherwise you will get a message saying that this player is not connected to the variants server.

But until your friend goes to a chess.com/variants page for the first time, the name will not show up at all.

I hope this helps.

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I was watching a game where royal pieces were not kings (link), and strangely, when Green resigned, the wrong piece remained alive:

Also, the bare-piece rule causes the game to freeze when there are more than 2 Players because it resigns a player again and again. This is why one of my testing games for a new variant, #67559003, disappeared from the server. (I don’t have a picture or a link for this bug.)

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zisal2029 wrote:

I was watching a game where royal pieces were not kings (link), and strangely, when Green resigned, the wrong piece remained alive

That's because of Takeover. In takeover, pawns die, so the dead-king-walking piece is determined by the remaining non-pawn pieces. So this is just an edge case (should be taken into account and fixed I think).

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petrified en passant bug
https://www.chess.com/variants/petrified/game/67634799

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wolyn wrote:

Yeah, i reported the same bug a couple months back. i dont think they plan on fixing it.

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I have seen this unreported bug for a long time: When I click the archive button on a tournament, no games appear, and it shows an error message that said "archive search timed out." I have to check one of the contestants' profiles for the game.

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Was waiting in a 4PC queue with my friends when I got kicked from the queue when the game started when i didn’t click anything

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Bug Report

While playing the variant Spell Chess, my opponent was able to castle his king even though my knight had his king in check. My opponent used a freeze spell on the attacking knight and was then able to castle his king from a checked square to an unchecked square. Regardless of a spell's affect a checked king should never be able to castle.

[GameNr "67867232"]
[TimeControl "5+2"]
[Variant "Spell Chess"]
[RuleVariants "EnPassant Play4Mate Spell=1+3"]
[White "joblowjohot"]
[WhiteElo "1455"]
[Black "zeljkofilipin"]
[BlackElo "1738"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White forfeits on time • 0-1"]
[Site "www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/67867232"]
[Date "Wed Jul 10 2024 08:37:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)"]

1. b2b3 e7e6
2. g2g3 Bf8b4
3. Qd8f6
4. a3b4 Qf6a1
5. Nb1c3 
6. Ng8f6
7. Bb2c3 Rh8g8
8. Bc3f6 g7f6
9. e2e3 b7b6
10.
11. Bf1e2 Rg8g4
12. Be2g4 Bb7h1
13.
14. b4b5 Bh1f3
15. b5c6 Bf3c6
16. c2c4 Bc6e4
17. f2f3 Be4c2
18. b3b4 a7a5
19. b4a5 b6a5
20. Ng1e2 a5a4
21. Ne2c3 a4a3
22. Nc3b5 a3a2
23.
24. 0-1

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If a piece is frozen its check is cancelled. A similar example would be taking a defended piece with a king in Duck Chess by blocking off its defender.

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Not a bug

Avatar of Duras-Anderssen

For some reason, when I play four player chess, a ? appears next to my rating and despite playing about 3 games of four player chess, I haven't unlocked the achievement for playing a four player chess game.

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To see your ranking in a given variant, you must have played at least 20 games.

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Why is this a draw by insufficient material?? 
https://www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/68238865/

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wolyn wrote:

Why is this a draw by insufficient material?? 
https://www.chess.com/variants/spell-chess/game/68238865/

Because black cannot force a checkmate and there is no way for him to ever. The white player just has to not be stupid.

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There was a possible mate (66 ... Ne5 67. Kxh2 freezes g2 Ng4#) but the server would surely overrule it using the insufficient material rule.