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ShunyXD wrote:

Its fascinating that chess.com devs cant fix this bug even with a decade, lol

The OP issue is not the same cause as anything newer.

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Lol

Avatar of Yoylecheese

When i try to play with a bot, nothing literally happens, the cursor is the same, i already checked if there are anything interfering with it but there was literally nothing

Avatar of justinymangostiny

Same issue in december. I can't play with the bot in computer simply because the playbutton does not exists.

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justinymangostiny wrote:

Same issue in december. I can't play with the bot in computer simply because the playbutton does not exists.

Is your browser zoom regular or text size increased?

Avatar of Green_Truck50

Anyone who's bots are not working on the mobile app check if the app is stored in external storage and if it is on external try setting it to be on internal storage and thats what fixed it for me.

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Issuall wrote:

My chess.com bots don't work on my phone what do I do

If you are on the app and it's on external storage, put it on internal storage and that worked for me.

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On May 7th 2025, whenever I play a bot after a random amount of time, it completely freezes. No more messages, AND no more moves. If someone knows why (cause for me it's literally 9:49 PM for me, please let me know. Thanks!

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I have the same issue as Aaryan_48 . Bots freeze after a random amount of moves. No messages or ability to reset. Refreshing only resets the latest positions and a frozen bot. Started last night and has persisted. Tried clearing the cache, logging out and in, restart of pc etc. Seems to anly affect playing against Bots. Thank you

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Are the freezes on particular bots?

Avatar of Aaryan_48

I have not played every bot, but for the bot's I've played, ALL of them froze eventually in the game. This is when the position with me and when The Pickpocket froze. Also, I now observed the Pickpocket froze at the same time it did last time, maybe because I did the same moves and it did the same moves.

Avatar of Idrinkyourhealth3

Please stop playing bots. They are nasty entities and they don't like you, these creatures don't feel empathy and they don't understand you, they try to make you feel at home, at their home, in their world - you are just a ton of bits of data ready to be captured, and they are coming for you

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

Staff pushed out a fix for this today. Are you still seeing issues?

Avatar of Aaryan_48

Unfortunately yes. I was just having a game with the bot in Top Players, Irina Krush and it froze in 4 moves!

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I will try to take your advice, Idrinkyourhealth3

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Aaryan_48 wrote:

Unfortunately yes. I was just having a game with the bot in Top Players, Irina Krush and it froze in 4 moves!

Try cleaning your browser cache

Avatar of shrecksaw

what i did was press ctrl fn f5 at the same time

and it worked

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Oh no
Avatar of Aaryan_48

shrecksaw, your advice would be helpful to many in the world, though unfortunately I am on a Lenovo Chromebook, so I don't have the fn key

Avatar of Nirabqwew

Same , bots dont work on my pc