Yeah, I ended up moving my king to c1 when I meant to castle on my phone. Either I can take that kind of slip back, or I can't really play on my phone.
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I dont like the idea of a take back button. would like to see a submit move button instead. That would take away the "Mouse blunders" and that would illiminate any excuse of a bllind blunder move. I have done both. You hit submit, your move is docked and final. I can see where people will get all this and that on chat if you dont except their take back move request. Honestly, most of my blunders, including two games I just lost, I saw my bad move as soon as I left it on its square. Had I had a submit option, those blunders would NOT have happened, and in at least one of those games, I would have won. Wont say for sure on the other, but the odds were in my favor.
One other wish I would have, is to have an adjournment option. There are a lot of good reasons why someone may have to leave a game. If the option were requested, the other guy/gal would have the option of excepting it, or not. If they excepted it, the game would convert to an "Online Game" if they did not except it, the game would end, and they (the person declining the option) would be the winer. This would keep someone from just asking for that option all the time and abusing it. in short, asking for the option would be a yes (it continues online) or no game over right now.
Yes this second wish was brought up in another thread, and I commented the same feelings there.
I totally agree with the adjournment idea. Back in the day I played FICS - just a text-based board, and they had all of the above.
Would takebacks only be available only one move after the terrible move was made?
only 1 or 2 takeback request per game i think is ok,
not to be negative, there will be some players who will use it to annoy the opponent if the takeback request is unlimited. or maybe be enable/disable takeback be somewhere in the game settings?
Feb 20, 2012
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Yahoo! Chess used to have this - it may still have it (I haven't played on there for ages).
It was by far the most irritating feature.
Imagine the scene:
You spend ages setting up a trap. Your opponent walks into it. Before you can do your move, you get a notifaction "[opponent] has asked if they can take back their last move". Now you either feel guilty for clicking 'no' or - in about 50% of cases I experienced, the begging begins:
"plz."
"PLZ. My hand slipped."
"OMG WTF NO WAY UR SO MEAN MY HAND SLIPPED"
And so it goes on. And of course, if you do give in and let them take the move back, this in no way means that they'll let YOU take a move back later on if you make a blunder yourself.
I prefer the idea of a Submit button instead of a take-back button. As lukeowen points out in comment #27, the take-back option is abused by players on other sites, and even when it isn't, I don't like to be put in a moral dilemma half way through a game becasue of someone else's mistake.
The iPhone app has the Submit button option, and it's useful as long as you remember to hit it - I've lost critical seconds in speed games by forgetting!. Is this option also available on the normal desktop display version?
At least an option at the start of the game, whether to enable or disable for the upcoming game. So the player may take back a move if the other person has not moved yet - i see nothing wrong with that.
So we dont really need a vote, just an option prior to starting the game.