Glitches? In the new Yahoo! Chess

August 31, 2006

budlight

So about a week ago I logged into Yahoo! chess to find that it had been upgraded and was much more usable and aesthetically pleasing. This new interface is a flash interface, and I do wish it had some more features such as making the tournament style board

the default board over the low contrast wooden style board

Also you have to click Exit room twice to actually leave, the first click simply makes you stand up at the table. The first time i logged into it using this new interface I was surprised to see what my rating was.

Yes 1337. Sorta amusing, but i feel sorta lame for taking a screenshot of it. Anyway, I was playing today and when I logged in it took me to my yahoo homepage which I never use.  I go back on my merry way to play some 8×8 white and black, with prmilton2004 as my challenger everything is going good so far I’m up a Knight and a bishop to 1 pawn. Then yahoo chess decides to make me move twice in a row, I went ahead and moved the move being to advance my A pawn to a3 on the 27th move. My screen then shows him hanging a rook (not unusal for this player so far) on b4. So I move my bishop from d2xb4. Then all of a sudden the screen reverts my a pawn back to it’s original row and has his rook taking my bishop. But the most pecular part of all is the b3 pawn of black’s is completely gone. It’s in his captured BOX!

As you can see my initial reaction was to accuse him of cheating and this is very possible that with it being a flash based game and new that he could be, but since when have cheaters been patient? Isn’t that the opposite of cheating?

Below is the complete game as emailed to me by Yahoo!.

;Title: Yahoo! Chess Game
;White: budlight1337
;Black: prmilton2004
;Date: Thu Aug 31 17:16:08 GMT 2006

1. e2-e4 d7-d6
2. d2-d4 c7-c5
3. d4-d5 b8-d7
4. c2-c4 d7-e5
5. f2-f4 e5-g4
6. h2-h3 g4-e3
7. c1xe3 g8-f6
8. b1-c3 a7-a6
9. g1-f3 f6-h5
10. c3-e2 a8-b8
11. g2-g4 h5-f6
12. e2-c3 d8-a5
13. f1-e2 b7-b5
14. g4-g5 f6xe4
15. e3-d2 b5-b4
16. c3xe4 c8-b7
17. o-o a5-c7
18. h3-h4 g7-g6
19. e4-g3 c7-d7
20. g1-g2 f8-g7
21. a1-b1 e7-e6
22. h4-h5 e6xd5
23. h5-h6 b7-c8
24. f1-h1 g7-d4
25. f3xd4 c5xd4
26. c4xd5 b4-b3
27. d2-b4 b8xb4 where did b3 go?

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