How do you setup a custom board position and invite a friend to play it with you?

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Muntastic

How do you setup a  board with custom piece positions and  invite your friend to play that game in IOS? 

It seems I can do it on the website BUT even the website only allows for you vs computer and you cannot invite your friend to play. 

Mainly I want to review an old game with a friend and work out possible alternate scenarios At critical moments. This feature would be great if it was built into the self-analysis mode after a game. As you review each step, choose to start a new (Alternate ending) game at the current positions with your old opponent. 

notmtwain
Muntastic wrote:

How do you setup a  board with custom piece positions and  invite your friend to play that game in IOS? 

It seems I can do it on the website BUT even the website only allows for you vs computer and you cannot invite your friend to play. 

Mainly I want to review an old game with a friend and work out possible alternate scenarios At critical moments. This feature would be great if it was built into the self-analysis mode after a game. As you review each step, choose to start a new (Alternate ending) game at the current positions with your old opponent. 

 

 

https://support.chess.com/article/690-how-can-i-play-a-daily-game-from-a-custom-position

Muntastic
Got it working but that particular article is incomplete. Looked for hours on how to set it up.

Went to Learn->Analyze-> and setup custom game board. Copied FEN.

Then-

The MOST IMPORTANT setting in Daily Chess -> Custom Game that they don’t mention is you must set your custom game time to 1 DAY or more. Otherwise the custom FEN setting does not appear.

Jesus Christ. Why?

After the setting is pasted and loaded you can send invite.
Muntastic
Thank you NotMTwain !
Martin_Stahl
Muntastic wrote:
Got it working but that particular article is incomplete. Looked for hours on how to set it up.

Went to Learn->Analyze-> and setup custom game board. Copied FEN.

Then-

The MOST IMPORTANT setting in Daily Chess -> Custom Game that they don’t mention is you must set your custom game time to 1 DAY or more. Otherwise the custom FEN setting does not appear.

Jesus Christ. Why?

After the setting is pasted and loaded you can send invite.

 

The article was written for the old interface. Since Daily is now only available in the unified interface, you have to be starting a Daily game to do Custom positions since Live doesn't concurrently support them.

AppleJuice0909

Where do you find daily chess?

 

Martin_Stahl
AppleJuice0909 wrote:

Where do you find daily chess?

 

 

https://support.chess.com/article/361-what-is-daily-chess

 

You just change the time control to a Daily time control when creating a seek.