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so, i played a game (custom, 4 player), and one of the players (yellow, i remember is Thase344) disconnected for a very long time, his time stopped at 0.1s forever and i tried to reload, but it says ‘Game #101897732 not found’, this had happened to me quite a few times before, and also there’s also a bug (probably related), when i played a custom game, i can’t check/checkmate the opponent’s royal sergeant, what’s wrong with chess.com?!

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Don't know

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i wonder if chess.com has a glich in that because they didn't work hard enough to do that. or something

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It's because the flag happened on the first move. I'm not sure if this still happens for FFA, but it certainly happens for Teams variants. To work around it, just set the TC to have a short beginning time but a large increment, or intentionally use a large starting time to teach the person who flagged to stop aborting games and actually play games they join.

As for the royal sergeant, are you using any PGN tricks? If so, could be that.

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how do i make a game anyway

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Jeriah-Stauffer wrote:

how do i make a game anyway

Go on the server, click under the "Custom" tab, and click the "Custom" option, which should be the first option. Then, click "Edit Posiiton" and do your stuff.

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still confused entered lately

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Jeriah-Stauffer wrote:

still confused entered lately

alright just take this video. Starts on the home screen of the variants page.

To make this easier for people to copy+paste everywhere, here's the embed code:

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thanks

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got it now

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2bHNST wrote:

It's because the flag happened on the first move. I'm not sure if this still happens for FFA, but it certainly happens for Teams variants. To work around it, just set the TC to have a short beginning time but a large increment, or intentionally use a large starting time to teach the person who flagged to stop aborting games and actually play games they join.

As for the royal sergeant, are you using any PGN tricks? If so, could be that.

first, nope, yellow played a lot of moves before bugging

second, it’s ffa

third, no, i did not do anything with the pgn

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AllenBB314 wrote:
2bHNST wrote:

It's because the flag happened on the first move. I'm not sure if this still happens for FFA, but it certainly happens for Teams variants. To work around it, just set the TC to have a short beginning time but a large increment, or intentionally use a large starting time to teach the person who flagged to stop aborting games and actually play games they join.

As for the royal sergeant, are you using any PGN tricks? If so, could be that.

first, nope, yellow played a lot of moves before bugging

second, it’s ffa

third, no, i did not do anything with the pgn


Can you tell me the gamerules of the variant, as well as if you tookback moves in the game?

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The sergeant bug, send me a game link please

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Next time, please post bugs here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/bug-reports-10

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AllenBB314 wrote:

so, i played a game (custom, 4 player), and one of the players (yellow, i remember is Thase344) disconnected for a very long time, his time stopped at 0.1s forever and i tried to reload, but it says ‘Game #101897732 not found’, this had happened to me quite a few times before, and also there’s also a bug (probably related), when i played a custom game, i can’t check/checkmate the opponent’s royal sergeant, what’s wrong with chess.com?!

once I had the same bug, and the opponent was disconnected and did not reconnect. I didn't take back moves.

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it happened again, i screenshotted (turns out it is always bugged at 10.y, there’s a takeback so it’s blue), is it because giveaway + spell? spell activates at move 10 for all players

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wow 4pc spell gifts? :/ (jk)

anyways what the hell i see the royal icon on no piece so that means the king is royal

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imakevariants101 wrote:

wow 4pc spell gifts? :/ (jk)

anyways what the hell i see the royal icon on no piece so that means the king is royal

... its giveaway

unless you mean king-reach-hill = win