Premoves disappearing and inability to move

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Stephen_Stanfield

I was winning this game (https://www.chess.com/live/game/3462350834) and premoved the unstoppable mating sequence and waited. But only a few of them were played, the other premoves disappeared. I also could not move my pieces and had only 9 seconds left. What caused my premoves to go away? What prevented me from moving my pieces? I don't know if it was my mouse, connection or chess.com that cost me that win but I don't want it to happen again! Any advice about this would be appreciated.

edr0nt

Yeah, same thing happened to me, 2 times! I don't remember the first game, but I have the 2nd game! Here's that game: https://www.chess.com/live/game/3434828296 I premoved the mate, but after a few of them played out, the rest didn't!

erik

Interesting. How many premoves did you line up? 

edr0nt

Around 7-10, but the last 4 weren't played out

Stephen_Stanfield

 

notmtwain

You didn't lose. It was a timeout with insufficient material draw.

Looks like things froze up with almost 10 seconds left.

Stephen_Stanfield

I know I didn't lose, I had mate premoved against a 2300 with almost ten seconds left and I flagged.

edr0nt
Stephen_Stanfield wrote:

I know I didn't lose, I had mate premoved against a 2300 with almost ten seconds left and I flagged.

Same for me, but my opponent was a GM, 2800+ sad.png

MGleason

If I remember right, you can only queue up eight premoves.  Did you maybe exceed that?

edr0nt

I don't think there's any way to exceed that, since it doesn't let you premove after the max is reached

The max is 8? You're most probably right, then I premoved 6-8 moves, and the last 4 weren't played out

Elroch

I can't see why you need premove at the end: you have 10 seconds. It may be you had an unfortunate snarl up / connection problem that got in the way of a win that you would have got.

Stephen_Stanfield

Once my time flashed under 20 seconds I stopped looking at it and focused on converting the ending as fast as I could. I didn't realize how much time I had left until my pieces stopped moving. Oh well, at least it wasn't rated. (though I would still have gained rating)

Stephen_Stanfield

Happened again in live 960.