Hi All, i’m new to chess_com and have had a problem with the game freezing and wondering if it’s a common problem or something specific to me or my device.
I’m using the ChessUp2 board (via wifi, no phone) and playing the Bots. Sometimes it just freezes waiting for the Bot to start, other times it’s when it’s waiting for the Bot to move. It actually doesn’t happen a lot, but I’d like to get it resolved before i start playing other people.
Has anybody else had issues?
DETAILS:
The board freezes when “waiting for bot” to make first move, or later in a game after I move and expect the bot to reply. It only happens occasionally, most games I can play through to completion. When if fails I can click on ‘resign’ and it acts like it’s resigning but doesn’t really do anything. I have to pwr-cycle the board to get it functional again.
I suspect either Chessup or chess_com is hanging up waiting for a response from the other. I played the bots a lot on my PC with no issue before I got my board so I think the PC->wifi->internet is solid.
Does the comm protocol detect stalls (i.e. timeout and resend the last msg) or does it depend on perfect msg reliability?
- maybe a signal strengh indicator for the wifi would be helpful
- a resend button on the touchscreen to resend the last command to chess_com
- some sort of indicator or msg cntr on the screen to note what state or msg the system is stuck on.
I found a thread where a guy was able to monitor the BT msgs from the board. I may try and dust off my .net skills and see if I can do the same. If I can, and if there are msgs on BT during bot play on chess_com, that may provide a better clue to what’s going on.
I’m posting to chessup and chess_com since i don’t know where the bug is, exactly.