analysis board BUG?
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it was not like that before, but it now lets me make any move also. seams fine to me but an option to switch it from both styles would be best.
Apparently, it's a change to the analysis board (a feature I really enjoyed... up until now). I saw a message saying that it's been changed so that the analysis board "doesn't do the thinking for you."
My question for the admins though, is this: If your king is in check on the board during a correspondence chess game and you attempt to move it into another attacked square, you cannot (obviously, because it's an illegal move and you cannot submit an illegal move). So by the same reasoning, isn't the board "doing the thinking for you"? If you cannot submit an illegal move, why allow them on the analysis board? It seems ridiculous to me. Either keep the analysis board the way it was or get rid of it, in my opinion.
The ideal analysis board:
A) has a "legal positions only" check box
B) Is truly free. Let's you move pieces around freely, add pieces, etc. all of this not just during a game but also after the game is over! So many times I've wanted to analysis positions in a completed game, and the analysis board won't let me.
C) has save options! let's you save analyzed varations...
D) In fact, it'd be great if the analysis board functioned a lot like the superb PGN editor available in the forum for annotating games and adding them to posts.
The admins of this site are well within their rights to allow the users here to submit illegal moves, and the person on the other end may then claim victory. I would predict then a potential decrease in the amount of users here at chess.com. I, for example, play here because it's fun, free, and generally very pleasant. If I wanted strict tournament rules with severe consequences, I'd play in a tournament. I just think it's adding more "cons" to the site, rather than "pros." Chess.com is supposed to be a fun place to play (and learn) chess. Strictly enforcing "illegal moves" I think hurts the site in the long run. And what if someone makes an illegal move and the other person misses it? Do they play from the "illegal position" or does the site flag the game? It's a lot to regulate when all they have to do is leave things "as is." When I play OTB and move into an attacked square, usually my opponent doesn't jump up screaming "I WON! ILLEGAL MOVE!" That is just silly.
i think the best option would be to leave it up to your opponent. give them a per-game check box allowing/disallowing the use of the so-called 'smart board'.
or, use that as a mutually agreed upon setting in the game seek/setup.
not sure if this has been happening to anyone else, but lately when I've used the analysis board it's been letting me do anything. i.e. illegal and impossible moves: letting me move my king as many spaces as I want, letting me place it directly next to another king, letting me move my bishop like a rook etc. etc.
it's just the analysis board and doesn't affect the game but is anyone else experiencing this odd behavior? has it always been this way? i thought I remembered the analysis board not allowing illegal moves but right now it seems to, which is a bit...odd.