Cannot review game of Chess960

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CORR0S1VE

I just played my first game of Chess960, and it's incredibly janky... For some reason the whole UI is completely different, like it was programmed by a completely different team, even though it's the exact same game, just with the starting positions randomized.

But I'm willing to put that aside - if not for the fact that it's not possible to review or analyse my game, in any way.

The archive allows me to download or save my "PGN4", but I am unable to load this into the chess.com engine to get a review, best moves, mistakes, recommendations, engine moves, etc. It just fails to load as invalid.

I don't just want to look at how the pieces moved - I want to see blunders and mistakes. Why is this feature not implemented?

Martin_Stahl
CORR0S1VE wrote:

I just played my first game of Chess960, and it's incredibly janky... For some reason the whole UI is completely different, like it was programmed by a completely different team, even though it's the exact same game, just with the starting positions randomized.

But I'm willing to put that aside - if not for the fact that it's not possible to review or analyse my game, in any way.

The archive allows me to download or save my "PGN4", but I am unable to load this into the chess.com engine to get a review, best moves, mistakes, recommendations, engine moves, etc. It just fails to load as invalid.

I don't just want to look at how the pieces moved - I want to see blunders and mistakes. Why is this feature not implemented?

If you play 960 on the main Live server, you should be able to run a review on those games. The ones on the Variants server might be possible if you edit the PGN.

Martin_Stahl

Just looked at the PGN exported from there and it doesn't include the starting position and doesn't use standard algebraic move notation. You might ask in the Variants club; that section of the site had separate developers so they may be able to answer why the PGN isn't standard for 960.

CORR0S1VE

> If you play 960 on the main Live server

Thanks - Took a several google searches to find out how to do this.

They don't make it easy - Almost every URL and page directs you to the variants. E.g: https://www.chess.com/terms/chess960

For those wondering how, go to normal matchmaking, and click the "Custom" dropdown, then scroll up to the top of the page, and change the "Standard" dropdown to "Chess960".

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