Chess .com is pleased to announce yet another new tournament for its GMs and regular bloggers!!!
Its Superbug !
This is a new exciting way of spicing up the game!
The idea is this! The players begin a regular game but at any time 'Superbug ' will make its move !
A piece may disappear , or a piece may appear! A piece may suddenly move to another square !
The first player to notice immediately presses the 'Superbug ' button and highlights the square affected by the change!
This player is the winner !
NOTE All games will be monitored for some reason or another.
If a genuine bug occurs ( highly likely ) the game is declared void and a new one begun.
Nakamura's decision is final.
We trust our members will follow this exciting tourney and forget about vote chess!
Are there any more bugs at the moment?
There is one in the explorer interface from vote chess - if you click on the icon instead of getting the current position in a game displayed, you get the starting position. Then selecting a move from the database displays a nonsense position (eg the starting position with a pawn missing). But there is a workaround! Go forward again by selecting another move and the board displays correctly, then you can backtrack two half moves and use it as normal.
Of course it has been reported, but chess.com has a unique attitude to bugs - they avoid having any public information about what has been reported and hasn't been fixed and hope no-one notices.