Status on Automate

Over a year ago chess.com closed down Automate. I loved it and never had trouble getting a game. My friend posted a forum about it, and one user who had messaged chess.com said that the variant had been shelved and might come back.

Now here we are, and I was wondering the status of Automate. I know that Setup chess was created but it is different because you have to play out the position and not a computer. Is Setup Chess a replacement for Automate? Or could Automate ever come back?

Setup chess is basically the new automate. I think they had some server issues and backend problems with sustaining a variant like automate so it was removed

It's not really Automate, because in Automate a engine would play for you, in Set up chess you play the pieces

yes I can tell lol

thats what i meant with the backend issues, I think the problem was trying to maintain a stable state whilst having a game being played out perfectly by strong engines that require state-of-the-art technological assets to run properly which takes up a lot of storage and memory and uses a lot of power for processing

though i could be very well mistaken, i'm not a developer here so i have no idea

this is just a speculation

I personally thought it was also pretty boring to have the engine do all the work, which meant that server power was being used on engines instead of humans. Or maybe I'm just not a fan of spectator sports...

automate sounds like fun. Wish i could play that ...

automate was fun

bishop and pawn spam button not server

can't you keep automate anyway as an unrated game?

Because rated/unrated wasn’t why it was removed? Read Cheese’s comment again