# Problems: playing against friend on Chessup
**URL:** https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316
**Category:** General
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316 "2025-01-14T16:01:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@backslashhh](https://community.playchessup.com/u/backslashhh)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316/1 "2025-01-14T16:01:16Z")
We both have a chessup2 and try to play together. We had several problems over the last days:
- problem challenging the other: dialog saying the friend declined, although he didn’t
- problem challenging the other: no friends are displayed as being online (for both sides)
- move not being sent: game did timeout…
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### Author:  [@grabbe](https://community.playchessup.com/u/grabbe)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316/2 "2025-01-14T17:36:37Z")
Are you using the mobile apps to set up the game?
If so:
- Are you using iOS or Android?
- What platform are you trying to play on?
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### Author:  [@Jeff](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Jeff)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316/3 "2025-01-14T17:54:54Z")
For ChessUp 2 direct to the opponent challenge (both on the board and not on the app) - this will be in a release in February.
The temporary workaround is to challenge through the app
Sorry for the wait on the feature - we had to wait on a new function/interface on the [Chess.com](http://Chess.com) side. That is done and now we are adding it.
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### Author:  [@backslashhh](https://community.playchessup.com/u/backslashhh)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316/4 "2025-01-14T19:10:23Z")
we both have android v2.2.3… platform chessup as mentioned in the topic. board chessup 2.
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### Author:  [@grabbe](https://community.playchessup.com/u/grabbe)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316/5 "2025-01-14T19:42:45Z")
There is an auto decline if the person receiving the invitation is either in a game or in the game setup screen. Could you try setting up a game ensuring that the recipient of the invite is not in the game setup?
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### Author:  [@grabbe](https://community.playchessup.com/u/grabbe)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/problems-playing-against-friend-on-chessup/2316/6 "2025-01-14T20:56:51Z")
> [@backslashhh](#):
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> both have android v2.2.3… platform chessup as mentioned in the topic. board chessup 2
As I posted up above, if the recipient launches the app and just sits at the dashboard they can accept invites just fine. I have found a couple of things I need to address in the next release to make this easier and allow for people to accept invites from the setup screen if they haven’t started a game.