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Takeback should be removed from classical chess

Hi yall
i think it should be removed and here is my reason, classical games here are pretty long and a player gets enough time to think before making a move, no hurry, but i find it silly immediately a player makes a move and realizes immediately its bad like for example hanging a queen,they immediately offer a Takeback to you, i think it should be removed and left only in blitz and bullet where mouse slips can happen, but in rapid and classic come on take your time.
Mouse slips can happen in long or short times. It's not about time is about human nature, we make mistakes no matter what.
When someone sends a takeback request is up to you accept or decline it. I don't see the point in forbid. The more options you have the better.
You can disable takebacks in the profile settings -> Game behaviour. I don't recommend this, however, as mouse slips can as well happen in Classical games.
#3 Yeah... I had this a dozen times or so, when my opponent mouseslipped, I could give him a takeback, but he disabled the option \_(ツ)_/
If you don't won't takeback feature just keep it off in your settings
I have no idea what motivation one would have to remove such a feature. You can simply reject any take-back request, or disable the feature entirely.
#1 : may be players could activate "confirm played move" as for "correspondence chess" : a question "are you sure you want to play this move ?"
I really like move-confirm and use it in all my games, I wish there were:
(1) An option to set an arbitrary cutoff in the time control (base+40*increment) to enable it for slower games and disable it in faster games.
(2) An option to enable it for puzzles, to avoid "failing" a puzzle by mouse-slip or by accidentally touching the screen.

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