The mysteries of the e2 square

In let's say 70% of my live chess games in which I move a piece to the e2 square, that piece disappears, and I can't move it anymore

My opponent sees it, I don't.

I tried to log out, clean the browser cache, run ccleaner, and I use firefox as default browser. I have all the latest version of every browser plug in etc., but this problem remains.

I experienced a lot of disconnection, but now I have to say much less (I'm behind a router that for a few reasons was quite hostile to live chess, I have to admit)

Btw, sometimes I make moves just moving the mouse over the board, without actually clicking anywhere.

So I was wondering, anyone else has one or some of these issues?

Nope, just you.

What browser?

the same thing constantly happens to me but usually around the g1 square

I was having a lot of problems, disappearing pieces, pieces appearing in two places at once, losing the whole board if i moved the window at all.

Reinstalled firefox, didnt help, so i removed everything java and downloaded Java fresh again. Havent had a problem since. also havent disconnected since, but that's likely for unrelated reasons.

That deal with moves being made without clicking, is definitely to do with your mouse or touchpad, or with your mouse options. If you're windows XP/Vista, check in Accessibility Options/Ease of Access and make sure all the stupid click features are turned off. they're called "no touch click" or something like that.

When your peices dissapear like that there is a workaround that I've found works:

Minimize (The ▲ button on the top left) and then restore (Now the ▼ button) the game screen.  This always seems to clear up the problem for me.

I often find pieces disappear, but not because of technical issues.

Thanks for the replies, I'll try to sort it out

Tried to use the built-in minimize and restore buttons, but they didn't help

I found a (sort of) turnaround for this issue

When the Live Chess window is fully loaded, it appears a generic board "White vs Black", on that board I try to move pieces to the e2 square. If they disappear as if a black hole was hiding beneath the surface, I log out from Live Chess, clear all the cache (in firefox, ctrl+shift+del) EXCEPT the cookies of course, then log back in. Eventually I'll approach a e2 square bulletproof board.

Then, when the board is fine and I'm doing not so bad at an ongoing game, I got disconnected or I experience pieces walking on the board on their own, but that's another story

I have latest Win, latest firefox, latest java and I'm 100% virus free. I'm in a intranet, but with no restrictions or whatever. I never have or had any problem with java/flash interfaces on any site.

Ah, btw: the firebug extension in firefox sometimes (only sometimes) turns on a red message in the lower-right angle of the browser windows and tells me that there are error(s) (from 1 to 3) in the page (in the Live Chess page). It happens only sometimes anyway.

edit: got it (maybe)

I tried to use the user agent switcher plugin in firefox, and manually downgraded the browser header letting him tell he runs in win 5.1 and not in win 6.0. Well, from that moment on no more firebug error, no more black holes in the board, no more pieces dragged on the board without being clic'd etc. and more important: I haven't experienced ANY disconnection from that moment on. Maybe live chess in firefox 3 "works better" if it believes to be in a win xp OS?

Try to uninstall (not just disable) Firebug. Also, java is not required for Live Chess.

lol, Now if only we could have signatures :D

I resetted the user agent and uninstalled firebug, it seems it works fine in this way too. So, if it keeps to work fine, I don't need the user agent switcher too.

btw, java/javascript is required for live chess - without them the window won't load..it seems it's full of javascripts down there

Yes, JavaScript is highly required :). I meant java plugin for applets.

Lol! I thought this would be a discussion on the weaknesses of e2 square (mate on uncastled king or something) with an annotated game. Turned out to be more mysterious indeed...