Correspondence Chess Rules for Variant-Chess

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Hi Vick

i use board painter daily. I use it when writing books or chess articles. If you see my game you’ll see that i regularly mod my game myself. What i’m trying to do is change a regulation that became inadequate in some situations to improve it

Please note: based on a discussion and announcement in the bulldog chess club, a new rule has been added to clarify the use of conditional moves. Rule #7 (added) is this:

7. Players may issue conditional moves. Example:
      30.Rd8
      conditional:
      If...RxR then 31.QxR
As with any other move, conditional moves are binding and cannot be changed. The opponent may reply to the entire sequence, or he may play each move at normal time control.

Recently, I edited a post with a move in it. 

Here's the context...

I posted an inaccurate board. I made a new post with an accurate board, and left the previous post unedited until my opponent made his next move. I then deleted the incorrect board, with a note, thus editing a post with a move in it. Obviously I waited for my opponent to move to ensure he saw my post unedited before I edited it. 

The reason I deleted the image is because it increases demand on chess.com's servers if there are more images, and this image was needless and untidy.

I suggest a clarification of editing rules to permit such edits. 

I'm not sure if the amount of boards that we post is a problem for chess.com. But even if it is a problem, your action solved this problem for only 0,0000000000000000000000000000001%.

A few unnecessary images aren't going to harm any servers. What's best practice though? Unnecessary confusion and waiting for your opponent's move might not be "best".

Maybe quote yourself (images don't get reposted) before the edit.

I'd try do do this asap. I know what the rules say...boards aren't official, but if not addressed someone could try this as trickery.

I appreciate it's negligible, I guess it was more that it made the thread untidy and that little bit more difficult to scroll through the boards nicely. I think there's an element of OCD about it too, it's something that bothers me but probably shouldn't. I hate that I can't edit typos, but understand why that's the case. It feels different with a board though.

I wanted to delete it immediately, but I felt it was of the utmost importance to wait until the next move had been played, which is a de facto acknowledgment that the post with the move had been seen by my opponent in its unedited form. 

Since the posted text of a move has priority over a diagram, I feel that this question is more about style - but still very worthwhile to discuss best practice.

As for what is typed (concerning a move), text should never be deleted or edited. Illegal moves or ambiguous moves should be corrected by issuing a new post. (addressed in rule #6).

As for diagrams, I agree that game-threads read better and look cleaner without incorrect diagrams. I often even remove a diagram if it's a 1-ply change (so that the thread shows a diagram at each 2-ply). But I never delete diagrams until it has become stale and the game game has moved on. I think the key point is to wait until the matter has passed, and then some "clean-up" (of diagrams) is acceptable. For popular games where others might want to look at it  later on I think this is "best practice" (IMO).

Btw, I noticed that chess.com has changed the default backdrop to black, making some dark text hard to read. I revised the OP so all text is now only white.