Dont you like Lasker, who recommened to freely move the pieces on the board? :-)
Dragging pieces after the game
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Klartext wrote:
This annoys me. The game is finished and i reflect it. I have a question, touch the piece, try to move it, bang! you cant do that. It is the same at other sites. I first need to press buttons. Why did you develop such a complex GUI? All these blinking thingies (after i press the analysis button) but i can not move the pieces on that board after the game.
Just look at the real world. There is a wooden chess board and i can take the pieces and move them. To illegal squares if i want. I can add pieces if i want, i can take away pieces if i want. I can setup illegal positions, just for fun. And if i move a piece no things start to blink constantly if i dont want that.
Allowing that kind of thing would be more complex from a programming standpoint. I use SCID vs PC for offline analysis and you can't do what you are suggesting on it either. You have to go into the board setup to add/remove pieces or to drag them to different squares.
It is a standard and I would be surprised if many programs allow that kind of manipulation. I know some of the online tablebases allow it, but they are a bit different.
The place where it might make sense is the analysis board, but for a lot of people, setting it up like that would be more confusing.
Shredder chess online endgame database for example allows free moving. It has the most pleasant chess GUI i know. So, it is doable.
Indeed i open my games in Scid too when on Lichess, because they have an API which allows me to downlod the last game via python script. But still, it goes on my nerves, why cant chess.com (and Lichess) just stop nannying and let me move the pieces where i want...
This annoys me. The game is finished and i reflect it. I have a question, touch the piece, try to move it, bang! you cant do that. It is the same at other sites. I first need to press buttons. Why did you develop such a complex GUI? All these blinking thingies (after i press the analysis button) but i can not move the pieces on that board after the game.
Just look at the real world. There is a wooden chess board and i can take the pieces and move them. To illegal squares if i want. I can add pieces if i want, i can take away pieces if i want. I can setup illegal positions, just for fun. And if i move a piece no things start to blink constantly if i dont want that.