Bughouse on chess.com

As you may have noticed, our arch nemesis Chess.com now has Bughouse :-(

www.chess.com/article/view/the-new-chess-com-v3-now-with-bughouse

I have not played it tho because I don't have a chess.com account. But now we know it's no longer a computational impossibility, so liChess team, get off your horse and get us bughouse plz!!

It was never impossible before. Apparently the lichess dev team did not care to add it.

Computational impossibility?? FICS has had bughose since the 90's. Bughouse players hacked the server and abused a lot.

I thought there was some insurmountable architectural challenge. Anyhoo, liChess you'd better develop bughouse or people will start leaving for chess.com in droves. Umigosh bughouse is sooo much fun!

I love bughouse and will certainly try it on chess.com, but will never leave lichess because I hate chess.com search for money. Whatever you want to do on that site you have to be a premium member, that's a bit too low. Chess.com has, therefore, a bigger budget and can invest more for upgrading their features or pay stronger players to participate in some of the events there( such as gm battles challeng). Lichess improvements are based on volunteer work, so we should be grateful to developers here, and stop chasing them for more.

There is some good news. I the comments on their new site article and they're complaining of lags, bugs, flashes, etc. Plus as you mentioned, lichess is free. So it looks like chess.com won't be eating us up anytime soon, even with bughouse.

What if one person resigns and the teammate doesn't want to? How will the matchmaking work? There is going to be a ton of issues, bugs, trolls, and possibly hackers in this.

And don't forget that Lichess has like 10, 20 devs and chess.com has like 500.

I just played a few games on chess.com and it is really bad. Long time waiting, no communication between partners. Fics bughouse is still 100 times better.

Maybe liChess can learn from chess.com's mistakes and do it better.