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moves not showing on partner's board bug
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Mar 31, 2018
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#3
I have several friends who have quit playing here until these problems are fixed because the frequency of the bugs are really quite intolerable. In a game like bughouse where time is a critical part of the position, losing 10 seconds or more fixing frozen boards and tiny boards by refreshing your browser is outcome determinative (a loss) more often than not in high level games.
Watching @helmsknight 's bughouse stream on Twitch a couple nights ago, you can see chess.com glitch out over and over and over and over again. It's really embarrassing for chess.com! Luckily for her, it turns out her opponents were plagued by bugs far more often than she was.
Are the chess.com staff and programmers ever going to take bughouse seriously and make it work? This amateur hour bug riddled nonsense is getting tiresome.
I have had this bug
yes it happens to me too quite often
It happens to me too ... Don't be able to see partner's board and time is awful for a game which is supposed to be played as a team ...
Apr 1, 2018
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#7
At this point when I follow bughouse games, the glitch rate is about 50%. But when the "you can't see moves" bug happens, it continues until refresh, so I have to refresh my browser at least every 2 games -- or if I don't then after 4 games I can't see moves on either board.
It feels like kriegspiel. I have no idea what either player is moving on either board. I just see the times go back and forth and can read the chat.
Apr 1, 2018
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#8
@jdcannon and @erik ... this is what it is like to watch bughouse on chess.com:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cumPnppVjWQ
I'm not sure if something changed in the code recently, but a bug which used to happen very rarely now suddenly happens quite often. In my experience this used to happen roughly 1 in 100 games. Now it happens roughly 1 in 5 games. The change in frequency occurred approximately 2-3 days ago.
When you are playing a game, sometimes it looks like neither your partner nor your partner's opponent are moving, yet clearly they must be moving because you can see it flip between whose time is ticking down. When you are observing a game, this can happen on either board. The only fix is to refresh your browser, which of course loses 10 seconds. If you aren't paying careful attention to the clocks, you may just assume the other board is sitting rather than a chess.com programming bug.
I had hoped chess.com would become less buggy -- perhaps by fixing the tiny board problem. Instead chess.com is becoming more buggy by increasing the frequency of problems.