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[feature request] over the board/pass and play #14832

Open paperbenni opened 6 months ago

paperbenni commented 6 months ago

I'd love to see an equivalent to the "offline over the board" feature of the old mobile app or the "pass and play" feature of the chess.com app in the web version. These features are really useful when playing a spontaneous game and chances are that if you don't have a physical board, you may also not have the time or permission to install an app on someone's tablet. I think this would be really useful as the current workaround for this is to use the 'play a friend' feature and constantly switch tabs, which is a bit inconvenient.

randompearl-stack commented 6 months ago

Apologies for my first comment, it was very unhelpful. Currently, the better workaround is to go to the analysis board and turn the engine off. This way, you don't need to switch tabs every move. Of course, for one side the pieces will be upside down, but it is still more convenient than the method you brought up.

paperbenni commented 6 months ago

Apologies for my first comment, it was very unhelpful. Currently, the better workaround is to go to the analysis board and turn the engine off. This way, you don't need to switch tabs every move. Of course, for one side the pieces will be upside down, but it is still more convenient than the method you brought up.

Thank you for revising your comment 🙂

Another disadvantage of the analysis board is that there is no clock, so you still have to open another tab, plus on very quick moves, you'll lose significantly more time than with a built in clock.