Problem Castling in Chess960 from Browsers - Chess Forums - Page 2

ArthurBorsboom

Dec 11, 2020

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#21

neoliminal wrote:

ArthurBorsboom wrote:

I experience the same castling problem behavior. I have played hundreds of Chess960 games (I know how it works), however recently both me and my chess opponent cannot castle anymore.

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/292221044

The browser doesn't work, the app returns "Illegal move". In the analysis it allows the move.,

Did you happen to start these games on iOS's APP?

My opponent started it from the iOS app.

ArthurBorsboom

Dec 11, 2020

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#22

neoliminal wrote:

ArthurBorsboom wrote:

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/292221044

Your FEN (you can see this by downloading the game) is missing the Castle permissions.

[initialSetup "brkbrnnq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRKBRNNQ w - 0 1"]

That's why the game won't let you Castle. The question is how the game started with that FEN and my guess is the iOS App is not making the games correctly.

Just as sushi_rice, we do rematches all the time. I sounds plausible that iOS messes up the setup of the game.

Is there any way to fix the castling on the running game?

Martin_Stahl

Dec 11, 2020

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#23

ArthurBorsboom wrote:

neoliminal wrote:

ArthurBorsboom wrote:

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/292221044

Your FEN (you can see this by downloading the game) is missing the Castle permissions.

[initialSetup "brkbrnnq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRKBRNNQ w - 0 1"]

That's why the game won't let you Castle. The question is how the game started with that FEN and my guess is the iOS App is not making the games correctly.

Just as sushi_rice, we do rematches all the time. I sounds plausible that iOS messes up the setup of the game.

Is there any way to fix the castling on the running game?

Staff might be able to do it but likely would have to modify the game in the database directly.

neoliminal

Dec 11, 2020

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#24

ArthurBorsboom wrote:

neoliminal wrote:

ArthurBorsboom wrote:

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/292221044

Your FEN (you can see this by downloading the game) is missing the Castle permissions.

[initialSetup "brkbrnnq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRKBRNNQ w - 0 1"]

That's why the game won't let you Castle. The question is how the game started with that FEN and my guess is the iOS App is not making the games correctly.

Just as sushi_rice, we do rematches all the time. I sounds plausible that iOS messes up the setup of the game.

Is there any way to fix the castling on the running game?

It's possible to restart a game by copying the position and adding the FEN (and adding the Castling data) to make a new game. Unfortunately I can't find a way to abort a game in progress.

It appears that Chess.com is using the normal FEN notation but changed the way the Castling code works for Ches960. It seems they use this:

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

but instead of the 'KQkq' for King Side and Queen Side, they use the Rook's squares as notation.

bbqnrknr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBQNRKNR w HEhe - 0 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notation#FEN_adjustment_for_chess_variants_like_Chess960 If that is all above your head, you probably can't edit the FEN position.

erik

Dec 11, 2020

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#25

Sorry about this everyone. We have a fix coming in new build.

Strangemover

Dec 11, 2020

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#26

If this has happened in error would it be relatively easy to add 'no castling' chess as an additional variant?

neoliminal

Dec 11, 2020

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#27

erik wrote:

Sorry about this everyone. We have a fix coming in new build.

Thank you! That's great news. @erik

neoliminal

Dec 11, 2020

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#28

Strangemover wrote:

If this has happened in error would it be relatively easy to add 'no castling' chess as an additional variant?

Literally already is:

Strangemover

Dec 11, 2020

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#29

Huh well I never noticed that! 👍

Winterdune1

Mar 30, 2021

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#30

erik wrote:

Sorry about this everyone. We have a fix coming in new build.

Any news on the fix? It's just happened to me in a game...

neoliminal

Mar 30, 2021

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#31

Winterdune1 wrote:

erik wrote:

Sorry about this everyone. We have a fix coming in new build.

Any news on the fix? It's just happened to me in a game...

It's fixed. You might have a new issue. What operating system on you on? This bug was on iOS.

Winterdune1

Mar 31, 2021

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#32

I am on Android. Not sure what my opponent is playing on but he can castle and I can't. I'll ask him what he is using.

Winterdune1

Mar 31, 2021

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#33

I also have a Mac and cannot castle in Chrome on there either...

Winterdune1

Mar 31, 2021

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#34

Forget it. I was being an idiot! I can castle...

DerekDHarvey

Apr 15, 2021

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#35

Why do you people play Fairy Chess?

neoliminal

Apr 15, 2021

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#36

DerekDHarvey wrote:

Why do you people play Fairy Chess?

I'll answer your question in a private message. This isn't the forum for it.

Just send me a PM and I'll talk with you about it.

DerekDHarvey

Apr 15, 2021

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#37

It is NOT pure maths. Is it for people who cannot play proper chess properly?

neoliminal

Apr 15, 2021

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#38

DerekDHarvey wrote:

It is NOT pure maths. Is it for people who cannot play proper chess properly?

If you want to write me directly I'll explain whatever you like. This thread is for problems with Chess960 castling.