Can't set myself up to play black in custom FEN setup

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Hi, a game with my daughter timed out, so I got the FEN for the final position and want to set it up as a new game on chess.com like this:

play>daily chess>new game>[click play button]>play a friend>[click my daughter]

options: 1 day, standard, unrated, I play as BLACK, setup enter custom FEN [click play button]

excellent, but er no, i am *always* setup to play WHITE?? I want to play black!

Is this a bug or something I am doing wrong.? works fine on other sites!

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RUpe_alex wrote:

Hi, a game with my daughter timed out, so I got the FEN for the final position and want to set it up as a new game on chess.com like this:

play>daily chess>new game>[click play button]>play a friend>[click my daughter]

options: 1 day, standard, unrated, I play as BLACK, setup enter custom FEN [click play button]

excellent, but er no, i am *always* setup to play WHITE?? I want to play black!

Is this a bug or something I am doing wrong.? 

 

Have you tried changing the FEN so that it is black to move?

The w or the b after the position strings indicates whose move it is.

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Hi thanks for the reply.

However much i fiddle with the FEN i am always setup to play white even though I click the 'I am playing as black' switch. Chess.com sets up the pieces and works out who plays next that's fine, except that it ignores the 'I am playing as...' switch and I am always white, it's not even random. It seems to assume that as I set it up, I must be white??

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Here is the FEN I am entering:

2rq2nr/2p2kpp/2Qb1p2/1ppN4/3P4/6B1/PP3PPP/4RRK1 b - - 0 1

If you can set that up as a new game with yourself as black then I would very much like to know how you did it!

It works on lichess.org no probs.

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If I set it up to play a random person it works - I get to play black.

If I set it up to play with my daughter it doesn't - I play white whatever.

Weird.