Currently, when you select the king then select the rook, lichess will castle on that side if castling is valid. This can be problematic when you think about moving your king, but instead decide to move your rook, causing you to unexpectedly castle. This has happened to me many times in my games and recently occurred during one of John Bartholomew's recent bullet arena videos here: youtu.be/OwLPeZsiUOw?t=17m39s
This is incredibly frustrating for two reasons:
1) Castling by clicking the king then clicking the rook doesn't make sense as the king isn't moving to the rook's position- it's moving two squares to the left or right. It would make much more sense if the click-castling only occurred when you clicked the king, then clicked where the king will move to during castling.
2) There is no way to turn off this setting. I will never, ever purposefully castle in this way, but there is no way for me to turn off this setting to prevent me from castling unintentionally.
My request is that you please either implement the more intuitive click-castling I describe in (1) or add a way to turn off click-castling or click-moving entirely in the settings.
Thank you. I am a huge fan of lichess.org, but this behavior has always frustrated me.
This is incredibly frustrating for two reasons:
1) Castling by clicking the king then clicking the rook doesn't make sense as the king isn't moving to the rook's position- it's moving two squares to the left or right. It would make much more sense if the click-castling only occurred when you clicked the king, then clicked where the king will move to during castling.
2) There is no way to turn off this setting. I will never, ever purposefully castle in this way, but there is no way for me to turn off this setting to prevent me from castling unintentionally.
My request is that you please either implement the more intuitive click-castling I describe in (1) or add a way to turn off click-castling or click-moving entirely in the settings.
Thank you. I am a huge fan of lichess.org, but this behavior has always frustrated me.