chess.com, what have you done?

You have removed automate. Why? It was so popular and fun, as the following poem shows:

Poem by @longknoll Our battle cry, our weeping lullaby to revive our saviour automight


Can't they bring back Automate?


We all agree it was real great


The king of variants shining bright


For which we have an appetite





With newbies using lots of knight


'Cause Mr Rosen thought it right


And three hundred move long endgame


For which the engine was to blame





Fun ran riot in the chat


With puns and jokes right off the bat


Wild matchings of Elo


1400s 'gainst a pro





There was nought like it at all


It's absence does my heart appaul


Oh Chess.com what have you done?


You've killed such joy and smote such fun





But bring it back


I must beseech


To fascinate, inspire and teach


And radiate our sadder hour


With games to wipe away our glower.




If you even bother to look at this, please post f in the thread. We cannot let this happen. Automate must be brung back.

Automate was by far my favorite Chess.com feature.  I would be willing to pay for a top tier Chess.com account if Automate is brought back again to the Variant games. 

-Charles

My disappointment is immeasurable. And my day is ruined.

NOT A RICKROLL, I PROMISE

RIP Automate.

@longknoll , whoever you are, you are a genius.

I'm flattered

Hopefully the more people that write in the more chance we have

This is BEAUTYFULL

I came here cause I was wondering why it went does anyone know it seems like they still have the infrastructure but disabled it from the menu I don't see why they should take it down unless it wastes a tonne of server CPU cycles or something and it is becoming expensive to run but I don't see how that would affect cost.

i dont think it hurts anyone to keep the variant there unless they really hate seeing the low results and decide to shut it down just for the sake of having one less variant.. they dont think the more the merrier

From reading heth_barmon29 long post about strategies used in the game, there must be dozens and dozens of active Automate players.  I never had any problem in waiting for an opponent 24/7, dozens of people were always there to challenge around the clock.  There were clearly technical problems with some change they had made to its code because it suddenly started crashing.  Moreover, I don't believe Chess.com's claim that it was taken down to its "unpopularity".  The fact of the matter is, preceding its removal from the Variants menu Automate had a series of crashes that typically took 12 ~ 36 hours, after writing to the support staff several times, before it was brought back live.  Whatever the reasons are, the players on this site aren't a bunch of morons, we deserve the truth no matter what it might be, and the right to challenge their decision as we are their customers.  Whoever came up with the game has hit gold, and I hope that Chess.com comes to that realization sooner than later, besides the large player base that is in strong support of resurrecting the Automate game.  Please bring it back— I'm willing to pay for a Chess.com top tier membership for the privilege of being able to continue to play Automate and lose or a draw in every game against heth_barmon29.

-Charles

i have added a chess support member on here, u mind i forward this to them? thankyou so much charles, couldnt have been more well said

As you say I'm surprised they say it's unpopular. I was looking at Google data and 'Automate Chess' is searched as much as 'Fog of War Chess' and 'Horde Chess', as well as about twice as much as 'King of the Hill Chess'  and half as much as 'Atomic Chess' worldwide. I've also pointed this out though I suppose the data is a bit flimsy.

i like automate

 

Yes charles

I know Heth Barmon was talking about some alternative on Lichess...

 

if we could ever find a programmer that can recreate this live mode with stockfish depth and add the posibilites to the game such as putting pieces on the fourth rank, random points each game to add more possibilites that would be great. stockfish is free anyways and any chess GUI like arena chess GUI could be able to host this kind of mode easily. i payed an excel expert on fiverr at least 30dollars to fix my theortical matchups of all setups, i could start a fundraiser for the right professional that can make this happen, altho i never did anything remotely close to this before id want to know how likely this can get lol

im looking at copyright issues lol, i might be onto something im finding out lot more chess variatns on other sights hold onnnnnn

on lichess they said they are not adding new variants for a long time, searching automate on google only gives a handful of results mostly only related to chess.com forums asking for setups, so i feel its a very unpopular variant therefore shouldnt have any copy right , cuz rules can be made up and stockfish is public

on lichess cuz stockfish doesnt make mistake u can really tell who won at early moves cuz it doesnt throw away an already theoretically won postiion. i think what made it fun on chess.com is we never know how the bot will mess up or not, and its not that solved precicely because the bot can mess up XD