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PotatoDunce

So I was playing a quick causal game on my phone so I wasn’t logged in on the app and was playing on a guest account.

I played the whole game without a hitch and managed to climb back from a losing position. As I was deciding what to do, my queen darted across the board by itself.

Ok I thought to myself, i accidentally slipped it there as I have premoves on. So I took both hands off my phone to prevent it from happening again. BUT THEN MY PIECES MOVED BY ITSELF AGAIN.

There was no regularity to the timing of it, there was an occasional think, and then several fast moves in a row by both “my pieces” and my opponents.

The whole time I watched amazed as I was not even touching my phone. The pieces moving by itself ended up losing me the game as I lost both my queen and rook. Then as soon as it started, after 5 moves by itself, the ghostly presence disappeared.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them too? New exploit that allows my opponent to move for me? Did my iPhone get hacked and someone was messing with me??

Martin_Stahl
PotatoDunce wrote:

So I was playing a quick causal game on my phone so I wasn’t logged in on the app and was playing on a guest account.

I played the whole game without a hitch and managed to climb back from a losing position. As I was deciding what to do, my queen darted across the board by itself.

Ok I thought to myself, i accidentally slipped it there as I have premoves on. So I took both hands off my phone to prevent it from happening again. BUT THEN MY PIECES MOVED BY ITSELF AGAIN.

There was no regularity to the timing of it, there was an occasional think, and then several fast moves in a row by both “my pieces” and my opponents.

The whole time I watched amazed as I was not even touching my phone. The pieces moving by itself ended up losing me the game as I lost both my queen and rook. Then as soon as it started, after 5 moves by itself, the ghostly presence disappeared.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them too? New exploit that allows my opponent to move for me? Did my iPhone get hacked and someone was messing with me??

Staff are aware of a bug that occasionally happen in guest play and have been looking into possible causes and fixes.

caliber26

This happened to me today, I was logged in, played on my computer, and my opponent had checked me. I did not have my hands on the mouse even, and my king just moved in to a checkmate possition.... This happened when I also was treathening checkmate in one if my opponent did not find more checks to give me.

Martin_Stahl
caliber26 wrote:

This happened to me today, I was logged in, played on my computer, and my opponent had checked me. I did not have my hands on the mouse even, and my king just moved in to a checkmate possition.... This happened when I also was treathening checkmate in one if my opponent did not find more checks to give me.

Which game?

chessspromaster

same