Originally posted by SwissGambit Every other piece of chess software I own, and practically every other chess website I visit, uses drag/drop movement.
Benefit: standardization.
Drawbacks: none, if users have both options.
There is standardization now. It's called Click Move.
Every other piece of chess software I own, and practically every other chess website I visit, uses click movement.
I say add drag-and-drop if you must, but please don't sacrifice the standard Click Move.
Drag and drop risks a mouse drop on the wrong square. So, if you do drag and drop, you'll end up needing a confirmation click anyway. It will be the same number of clicks in the end.
Originally posted by coquette Drag and drop risks a mouse drop on the wrong square. So, if you do drag and drop, you'll end up needing a confirmation click anyway. It will be the same number of clicks in the end.
No - if you make the wrong move, just change it before hitting 'submit' - no extra clicks needed.
[There is also 'risk' of clicking on the wrong square with click move - sheesh 🙄 ]
There is also this blitz site that supports both drag&drop AND click-click simultaneously, which is about as annoying as can get. I.e. you castle e8-g8, and instead it will happily play Rh8-f8 for you 🙄
Originally posted by heinzkat There is also this blitz site that supports both drag&drop AND click-click simultaneously, which is about as annoying as can get. I.e. you castle e8-g8, and instead it will happily play Rh8-f8 for you 🙄
that's not becuz of dual support - just crappy programming