New Chess.com Glitch VS. Bot??

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BombKermit

So I was playing against Maria, the 1000 rated bot. I just recently turned on premove for the first time, and for fun, I premoved the e4 pawn all the way to promotion on a8. I knew this wasn't going to actually promote, as the bot wouldn't be stupid enough to play all the required moves, but to my surprise, the game instantly played the next three moves of the game (my move and the bot's other two moves) without my consent. According to analysis, the move made for me was the best in the position. Could anyone verify if this is happening to them?

How to set it up:
Step 1: Challenge Maria [1000] as white.
Step 2: Play e4.
Step 3: Very quickly premove the e pawn all the way to promotion on a8 (the top left corner of the board) and promote to a queen.
Step 4: Watch as the game plays not only the bot's move, but also your move, and the bot's move again!
If it doesn't work at first, just resign and try it again.
Also, to clarify, the move made for me wasn't exd5, it was Nf3 at first, and the next time I tried it, it was d4.

SoVerySigma
How does that work
BombKermit
SoVerySigma wrote:
How does that work

Make sure premove is on and premove the e pawn all the way to the top left corner, promoting to queen in the process.
Update: The more premoves you make with the "promoted" pawn (the queen after supposed promotion), the more follow-up moves will be played. I got up to 9 moves (18 turns in total) played for me. Strangest thing, this still gave me 3 crowns for beating the bot...

Fetoxo
You need a computer or Android for multiple premoves. So for me, this is not available 🫤
BombKermit
Fetoxo wrote:
You need a computer or Android for multiple premoves. So for me, this is not available 🫤

Oh sorry man. I'll see if there's a way to do it on other platforms.

kimcngen

woww

magipi

I've just tried it and it works as described. A move is played for me that's not the premove but some other move. Astonishing.

This seems to be a major bug.

BombKermit
magipi wrote:

I've just tried it and it works as described. A move is played for me that's not the premove but some other move. Astonishing.

This seems to be a major bug.

Thanks! Glad to see it's not just me!
If you premove the "promoted" queen to take other pieces of black's, does it play more moves for you?

magipi

In my case, it always only auto-played one move for me and for itself.

I think it pulls that move from the bot's own opening book, because when I played against Nelson, 1. e4 (premoving exd5, dxc6, cxb7, bxa8Q) e5 2. Qh5 Qf6 was played. And Qh5 is Nelson's pet move.

SoVerySigma
That’s crazy
BombKermit
magipi wrote:

In my case, it always only auto-played one move for me and for itself.

I think it pulls that move from the bot's own opening book, because when I played against Nelson, 1. e4 (premoving exd5, dxc6, cxb7, bxa8Q) e5 2. Qh5 Qf6 was played. And Qh5 is Nelson's pet move.

Hmm, I see. For me, it played a weird version of the scholar's mate against a 450, who played the best follow-up moves in the scenario, something quite unlike the bot. It might take the moves from the opening book, while it might just play a completely random opening.
Thanks for helping me out with this!