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new board coordinates option #6861

Open nikolatzotchev opened 4 years ago

nikolatzotchev commented 4 years ago

For new players and not only it will nice to have an option to see each board coordinate in the cell. Something like this. image

andyklimczak commented 4 years ago

The mobile app for lichess has an interesting option in a PR for displaying coordinates (veloce/lichobile#1282): image

PedanticHacker commented 4 years ago

That's bad. I'm sorry, but it looks ugly.

Wouldn't lichess rather have a coordinate margin embracing the chessboard? Having coordinates inside a square is always bad: you always get piece & text overlapping.

gmanjon commented 4 years ago

Well, I agree that the visualization comfortability is something very personal. I would include three more customizations: font color, font size and position inside each square. That way, any visual target could be achieved. But of course that would require a nrw settings level.

I know is something that many people would hate, but of course that is why it's optional.

I've seen this discussion in many other chess forums from some chess apps, and the truth is that people either hate it or love it.

ddugovic commented 3 years ago

On Lidraughts.org this is how coordinates render image

skossan commented 3 years ago

I like the original post, is it possible to get done? I woud love to have this as a disable/enable in settings.

ornicar commented 3 years ago

I wouldn't mind it being added.

skossan commented 3 years ago

I apprecaite that. I'm unsure how this works but is this something you will implement or will someone else have to do it and send a PR?

ornicar commented 3 years ago

I'll wait for a PR :)

abs commented 4 months ago

I put together a Chrome/Edge extension to do this - if it gets any traction, could do a PR a the next (much harder) step :P

abs commented 4 months ago

I put together a Chrome/Edge extension to do this - if it gets any traction, could do a PR a the next (much harder) step :P

Even better - it's already happening here: https://github.com/lichess-org/chessground/pull/301