Playing from specific positions

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I'm quite new here and only had a few games, but I've made loads of mistakes and so have my opponents. I've also seem other people's games where I think I would have dealt with the position differently.

It would be really interesting to either offer to play my game from position X or to request to play someone else's game from a certain position. Perhaps many people could do the same thing simultaneously and learn a lot about how each other dealt with it. Is there anything like that on here?

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I agree, it would be nice to set up practice positions. Unrated, of course.

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  • You can't specify an arbitrary starting position (though this feature has been requested and discussed previously ...

  1. can-i-start-a-game-with-the-pieces-in-specific-position
  2. does-anybody-think-this-would-be-fun
  3. new-games-with-predetermined-set-up)
  • You can select from about 3,000 starting positions.
  • You could use an (unrated) takeback game to make the moves to get you to a specific starting position.
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I see it's been mentioned quite a few times, thanks.