Just click on the details tab
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There is no details tab when I play against the computer..any other suggestions?
I find it's the pieces on the board that cause me the most trouble.
trysts wrote:
You may be condemned to keeping track of the pieces yourself!
So that's what I've been doing wrong!
joking aside, i like to see
what
pieces are offthe table, but cannotdo itin"play againstthecomputer"mode....whats up?
It's a bad habit to rely on looking to the side. It was said jokingly, but it's true, it's better to notice what's left on the board.
This is true for trades as well, it's not so much that you're giving up a knight for a bishop, but of bishops and knights that remain, whose are better. If they had a very strong knight and you trade it off with your bad bishop, then the overall change favors you.
Anyway, all that's to say I don't think it would be good for Erik to implement that feature because it helps players get better... although many players here are casual players, and maybe that's why it's in the details tab already.
I know this is mainly irrelevant, but why are pieces "captured", not "killed"? I've been playing in tournaments (amateur, obviously) for about a year and a half now, and I still don't know. Can anyone clarify?
Estragon wrote:
jim995 wrote:
I know this is mainly irrelevant, but why are pieces "captured", not "killed"? I've been playing in tournaments (amateur, obviously) for about a year and a half now, and I still don't know. Can anyone clarify?
Great Scot, man, we are not barbarians! We capture the opposing pieces and inter them for the duration of the conflict, treating them humanely with the understanding our own lost pieces will be similarly treated.
In chess, it is only the King who is to be killed, and his execution is never actually carried out - the game ends when he can no longer escape for another turn.
There used to be a video game called Battle Chess, when a capture was made animated fighters battled it out on the square, the loser reduced to bloody gore. The graphic violence was purely gratuitous, since obviously the outcome was determined by who captured who.
lol 
Some of my first games of chess were against this thing. I remember in order to play it always asked for a code to be entered at start up and I kept losing that funny wheel contraption.
I am new to this site. It looks cool, but when I play a game, the captured pieces are not shown on the side. Is there a way to make this happen, so I can see what pieces are out of the game?