Don't know
super annoying bug
i wonder if chess.com has a glich in that because they didn't work hard enough to do that. or something
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.
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.
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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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
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?
Next time, please post bugs here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/bug-reports-10
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.

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
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?!