Joining in the middle of game shows starting position.

[craftmaster1231]

Description

When I challenge a friend on lichess, make a few moves in browser, and then continue in chess-tui with new join, I see pieces in starting position.

Also, interface is broken and I can't make any moves. In the recording you can see I was able to see one move happen, but not more. Probably because move from lichess server was illegal for this state. Btw, it is also may be a great idea to fetch board state if chess-tui faced illegal move from opponent on lichess.

To Reproduce

1. "challenge a friend" on lichess, start game by another join
2. make some moves not in chess-tui
3. open chess-tui, join by link

Screen record:

https://limewire.com/d/YgS4W#CRpysyk9jS

Ping me if you need it, but expired

Environment

• OS: Arch Linux
• Terminal Emulator: xterm and kitty
• Version: 2.2.0

Context

In normal usage of chess-tui from start of the game. I had a move which was shown in chess-tui, but not sent to lichess for some reason. (1 minute API delay?). I tried to close the game and join again, but faced this bug.

[thomas-mauran]

Hello, thank you for reporting this issue, didn't thought about this case at all, also thank you for the recording it really helps a lot to understand the issue !

I'm gonna look into that bug but I have an idea about the issue.
Basically when we join the game with the seek code we are not using the logic that we have in the "ongoing games" tab where we check for the past moves of the game and sync the board, this is probably the issue and could easily be patched.

Working on that asap thanks again for taking the time to make those detailed issue, it will help a lot improve the global quality of chess-tui !