# Unexpected Draw offer in chess.com game **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 24, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804 "2025-08-24T13:48:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mihai\_Eftemin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Mihai\_Eftemin](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Mihai_Eftemin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/1 "2025-08-24T13:48:48Z")
Hi everyone, I was playing a game on [Chess.com](http://Chess.com) using my ChessUp electronic board, when all of a sudden the board itself offered a draw. I didn’t press anything to trigger it, and I wasn’t planning to offer a draw at that point. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Could it be a bug, or maybe a miscommunication between the board and the [Chess.com](http://Chess.com) interface? Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.playchessup.com/jeff/32/3_2.png) [@Jeff](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/2 "2025-08-25T14:38:18Z")
If the opponent offers a draw, the board will pop up the draw offer for you to accept or decline. Just to confirm - you were playing against an online player, not a bot - correct? ---
**Author:** ![Mihai\_Eftemin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Mihai\_Eftemin](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Mihai_Eftemin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/3 "2025-08-25T14:55:06Z")
Exactly, again online human Player. what I remeber is, that suddently a Informationen Pop Up Like “will you really offer a Draw?” but I did Not presss the offer Button. After my try to cancel the offer BY pressing the Cross Button a very few Moments later the Game was a Draw… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.playchessup.com/jeff/32/3_2.png) [@Jeff](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/4 "2025-08-25T16:01:34Z")
We might have a translation issue with the pop up - are you using the ChessUp 2 in English or is it in another language? If you decline the draw, it should not have been a draw. \*unless time ran out and one player had insufficient material. ---
**Author:** ![Richard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.playchessup.com/richard/32/399_2.png) [@Richard](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Richard)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/5 "2025-08-25T16:36:39Z")
> [@Mihai\_Eftemin](#): > > I didn’t press anything to trigger it, and I wasn’t planning to offer a draw at that point. I’m sorry this happened to your game. If you’d like to message me or post a [chess.com](http://chess.com) game link, I’d like to look up the logs from your board for it to understand what happened. A few times I’ve dropped a captured piece on the draw-button, causing that prompt, but I can’t say I’ve seen what you described before. As Jeff mentioned, there are a few other cases that can trigger a draw, like 3-fold repetition, insufficient material, or a stalemate - from the [chess.com](http://chess.com) game link, on the right-hand side under info-tab, it should give the complete reason the game ended. ---
**Author:** ![Mihai\_Eftemin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Mihai\_Eftemin](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Mihai_Eftemin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/6 "2025-08-25T16:48:32Z")
Hi Thank you for investigateing my issue. The link is > **[Chess: shibuc634 vs Mihai\_Eftemin](https://www.chess.com/live/game/142275598676)** > > shibuc634 (1454) vs Mihai\_Eftemin (1469). Game drawn by agreement in 28 moves. Click to review the game, move by move. In fact, i am Not 100 percent Sure touching the Screen with captured pice but i dont think so and I want to Press the x Button for Not offering a Draw… maybe pressed the wrong Button but honestly dont think both accidents happened directly ---
**Author:** ![Richard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.playchessup.com/richard/32/399_2.png) [@Richard](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Richard)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/7 "2025-08-25T22:26:05Z")
Mihai, I’ve reviewed the logs for that game. The logs confirm the game ending was drawn due to agreement. You were well ahead in the game when the draw-offer was sent from your ChessUp2. Shortly after the opponent accepted. I don’t have a good explanation for why the draw offer was sent. On the page that confirms sending a draw, I double-checked that the X-buttons return to the game-screen without offering a draw, and only the checkmark-buttons on the confirmation page will offer a draw to the opponent. I did notice that the buttons are somewhat close together - I’m going to increase the gap between them to reduce the risk of a misclick. A piece bouncing over the first button and a misclick could explain it but I agree that this must be a very rare event. Outside of that, I don’t have another explanation at this time. If it happens again, we’ll of course look into it further. ---
**Author:** ![Mihai\_Eftemin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Mihai\_Eftemin](https://community.playchessup.com/u/Mihai_Eftemin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://community.playchessup.com/t/unexpected-draw-offer-in-chess-com-game/3804/8 "2025-08-26T08:42:37Z")
Hi, Thank you for investigateing my issue. For me it is okay to handle it in this way. I think IT is good, it is reported and documented here, so if other users have similar problems, they can Pick Up the thread and join… Thanks a lot