Hello! I'm new here, and generally I like the looks and options here, but the absence of sound is unfortunatelly the (only) one which I find untolerable when considering an online chess playing. Any ideas/help? Pls? Is there an option to swich on the sound here, which I've missed?
I'd like to know is there possible to make a "smart move" as well (clicking at particular field, instead of moving our piece it comes to that field)...I'd like to have a freedom to arrange my table, resize it etc...
Thx a lot in advance for your help & advices.
see the speaker icon at the very top right?
Thx a lot! Do you have any suggestion about the managing the board size? Is there a "smart move" option somewhere, too? (I can see only a "premove")
You can click on a piece and then click on the field to which you want to move your piece.
No speaker icon on iPad screen or Safari.
@F_D89 - Yes, I am aware of the option you are talking about, but believe me, clicking twice (once on the starting point, and then on point I wish to move to) is simply not practical enough when playing bullet (1+0 min) or even faster tempo games (0+1, 0+2 and alike).
So, this time my question/request goes to admins here, please: Can we expect that "smart move" option (a "real" one, where I have to click only once to desired point, instead of dragging piece (it saves time considerably, believe me) would be inplemented here soon?
There would probably be users objecting to smart move as it involves software finding legal moves for you. As a quick example, in a time scramble if your opponent checks you and you have only one legal move, you don't even have to find it, you just click your king. Many chess purists believe that to be unfair. Players should have to specify what piece they want to move and where they want to move it to themselves without help, even if there is only one possibility.
I have an opinion on this as well, but I am currently not interjecting, only raising a possibly objection (as this debate rages on other chess servers all the time).
DunnoItAll, I am not sure if we both think of the same function. If you managed to link "smart move" function to ANY kind of cheating possibilities, in such case some, as you call them, "purists" could as well object about "premove", saying that such option don't exist in the "real life chess", so why should it exist in online chess, then? They could continue arguing about that, saying, too, that the one who is better skilled at making a timely premove has the unfair advantage over th ones who haven't. Right?
Now to clarify the "smart move" option (which, btw, is implemented in some of the great online chess playing software, like FICS's "Babas chess" for example, and I never heard anyone complaining about smartmove there) - "smart move" means that a player who uses it can move his/her piece to a specific square. The point here is, however, that (s)he can do such thing if, and ONLY if, there is ONLY one piece which can, at time, move to specified square.
For example: In the initial position, with a "smart move" option on, if I click an "f3" square, wishing to move my knight there, it will result with - nothing moved! Why? Simply because there are MORE pieces - not only one - who could move onto very same square; in our example there is our pawn at f2 who could move to f3, too.
If we, however, click the "e4" square, our pawn would readily go there, as it's the our ONLY single piece who could move to that squre at he moment.
So, considering all mentioned, I don't think there is much sense in connecting a "smart move" to ANY, even remotely possible cheating possibility. I believe that you are, commenting the topic, confusing the Fritz's "heumas" smart move (when you "smart" click at specific square, a software's "heumas engine" tent to sent there the most promissing piece) with the function I mentioned here, which is like comparing an uncomparable.
Yes, I understand exactly what smart move is. Even though it is implemented in BabasChess it is actually specifically against the rules at FICS to use it:
an excerpt from the "help abuse" file, note 12:
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12. Giving (whether requested or not) or using assistance (whether other
players, books, articles, notes, databases or unauthorized computers (see
below)) while playing rated games with or without the opponents
permission, even if the opponent is a computer. This also extends to
unrated games unless the opponent has given their permission before the
game (though unauthorized computers may still not be used (see below)).
Unregistered users are exempt, but out of courtesy should inform their
opponent of the situation if it is not clear.
Assistance includes (provided by any means) move/plan suggestion,
position/move/plan evaluation and list of legal and illegal moves as well
as list of pieces protected or unprotected. In short, it includes any
information that can be used to make a move or set of moves during a game.
If you are using an interface that provides any information listed above,
you must disable it while playing on the server. The interface may provide
assistance in making a move (such easy to click/drag pieces, and/or a
pre-drag/pre-move option) but may not provide assistance in deciding a move
(such as displaying legal moves, making "smartmoves".)
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Btw, about your "only legal move " example, it's completely "out of phase" - as explained in my previous post, a "smart move" is not about clicking a PIECE, but a SQUARE, so in your example I could click my king until the judgement day but it won't move; I have to click that only available square. And I cannot do so, of course, till I FIND that one.