Play chess using only the keyboard!

Hello,
I am a chess enthusiast for many years.
Recently I met your site.
Your site is really very nice. It has many functions and many things to do for chess players.

I want to ask you to add a function in more which I have not found in the options of your site.

• Play chess using only the keyboard!

For example, I would like to play chess using only the coordinates of the board.
This feature is very useful to learn the coordinates of chess and have more command of the chessboard.

Waiting for your response, I send cordial greetings.

Alfredo

I'm Italian, this is a translation using google translate.

This is the italian version:
Salve,
sono un appassionato di scacchi da molti anni.
Da poco ho conosciuto il vostro sito.
Il vostro sito è davvero molto bello. Ha molte funzioni e molte cose da fare per gli scacchisti.

Voglio chiedere a voi di aggiungere una funzione in più che purtroppo non ho trovato tra le opzioni del vostro sito.

• Giocare a scacchi utilizzando solo la tastiera!

For example, vorrei giocare a scacchi utilizzando solo le coordinate della scacchiera.
Questa funzione è molto utile per imparare le coordinate degli scacchi e avere più padronanza della scacchiera.

In attesa di una vostra risposta, vi invio cordiali saluti.

Has been discussed a few times. Basically, we have a decent idea of how it would work, but to make it truly practical, it would be reaaally hard.

The idea was to make it use the 'incremental search' UI pattern [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_search ], which is really the only way to make it more usable than a mouse. Unfortunately it is near impossible to do.

It would also be hard because it would be highly exploitable by chessbot programmers, so there would have to be serious security precautions, and either way, it would provide another vector of attack for hackers.

square to square notation wouldn't be that difficult right? e2e4 can be typed pretty quickly, especially if you're used to it. it would work just like click-click with a mouse, no need to hit enter or anything.

A bit convoluted, but there could also be an option to make
q->a,
w->b,
e->c,
r->d,
t->e,
y->f,
u->g,
i->h,
so 1-8 and q-i (a-h) are all in a row with a qwerty keyboard.

As long as there is a text window with a brief explanation you could get away with a lot in an effort to make it faster.

i would appreciate this very very much, because i use mostly the keyboard. i can understand hellball's concern regarding cheating though...