When playing, I agree 100% with pfren!
But it would be nice to have a takeback feature to help with live analysis.
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LongIslandMark wrote:
I'd say depends on the circumstances and why you are playing. In a friendly game at the local pub, where you both were having fun but your opponent makes a stupid blunder, the loss is acknowledged and I allow the takeback, and we see where the game would have gone without the blunder. It allows us to keep playing without starting over. What's the harm in that?
"loss is acknowledged" is a key phrase here. If I understand correctly your opponent actually resigns and you start a new game from position just before his blunder.
Will you give a seven-year old like me takebacks?
Mar 6, 2013
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In online chess (as opposed to OTB chess, not what chess.com means), the takeback button looks exactly like the resign button.
I allow a lot of takebacks at the pub/coffeehouse... but never before the fifth beer.
I just notices this Forun, there is a takeback, but it must be decided before the game challenge is issued (used as a friendly game to teach someone moves) I think it is always automatically unrated, in the dropdown menu for rated or unrated when you are issuing a challenge, the third option is available, Takeback
Personally I do not allow takebacks even to my 7-years old, absolute beginner students, for ANY reason.
Learning chess the wrong way is the sure road to eternal patzery.
Either accept the game as-it-is, or switch to backgammon (although no takebacks are allowed there, as well).