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Observation Game? and Top Guesser? What are these? Most of the time, when I go select a new game and choose a rapid, it just sends me to an "Observing Game", and I make a move, and it says, "your guess is..." I want to play a rapid game, not guess, and I'm flummoxed; I've lost approximately 50 points within 5 mins cause I keep resigning/abandoning? When I haven't even started in the first place, I will send an image, but I have no idea how to. This usually happens when I'm at school when I play chess; otherwise, it'll send me to an actual rapid game.

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Tasmav wrote:

Observation Game? and Top Guesser? What are these? Most of the time, when I go select a new game and choose a rapid, it just sends me to an "Observing Game", and I make a move, and it says, "your guess is..." I want to play a rapid game, not guess, and I'm flummoxed; I've lost approximately 50 points within 5 mins cause I keep resigning/abandoning? When I haven't even started in the first place, I will send an image, but I have no idea how to. This usually happens when I'm at school when I play chess; otherwise, it'll send me to an actual rapid game.

You can watch games if you want. In live chess, you click on the binoculars icon. Many people like to watch grandmaster play. You can try to guess the moves.

None of it will affect your ratings.

/ It's tough being back in the classroom, isn't it?

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Well apparently I lose my ratings somehow, I wish I could send an image here but I don't know how to.

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Tasmav wrote:

Well apparently I lose my ratings somehow, I wish I could send an image here but I don't know how to.

 

Staff are trying to track down a bug that some members are seeing, that matches what you mentioned. I have given the person looking into it a link to this topic