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#2

Hi pierremarc, I think you had a great idea and hit on something that many players would appreciate or want (without knowing it) - the ability to train on the board without needing a human partner and with the absolute least computer distraction.
I tooled around with it a little bit (no game yet but that will follow) and I already have 2 suggestions:

  • implement a confirmation button before the game starts. When I chose the time control I was quite surprised to see that it was immediately action time.

  • for me, on a chromium based browser, clickable areas turn the cursor into the writing prompt, not the select pointer. That's a bit confusing (what? I am supposed to type something here?)

I appreciate your work - thank you!

Hi pierremarc, I think you had a great idea and hit on something that many players would appreciate or want (without knowing it) - the ability to train on the board without needing a human partner and with the absolute least computer distraction. I tooled around with it a little bit (no game yet but that will follow) and I already have 2 suggestions: - implement a confirmation button before the game starts. When I chose the time control I was quite surprised to see that it was immediately action time. - for me, on a chromium based browser, clickable areas turn the cursor into the writing prompt, not the select pointer. That's a bit confusing (what? I am supposed to type something here?) I appreciate your work - thank you!
#3

implement a confirmation button before the game starts. When I chose the time control I was quite surprised to see that it was immediately action time.

Yes!

for me, on a chromium based browser, clickable areas turn the cursor into the writing prompt, not the select pointer.

It's not designed, at all, to work on a desktop browser. Sorry for that but I focused on my use case, which involved not having a laptop next to a chessboard (my first attempt was a CLI program, and it was ugly to have the computer around). That said, it woul be trivial to fix...

> implement a confirmation button before the game starts. When I chose the time control I was quite surprised to see that it was immediately action time. Yes! > for me, on a chromium based browser, clickable areas turn the cursor into the writing prompt, not the select pointer. It's not designed, at all, to work on a desktop browser. Sorry for that but I focused on my use case, which involved _not_ having a laptop next to a chessboard (my first attempt was a CLI program, and it was ugly to have the computer around). That said, it woul be trivial to fix...
#4

Ah, that makes total sense and I agree with you. And I also would prefer my phone for real use. Just happened to be on my laptop when I stumbled on your blog post :)

Ah, that makes total sense and I agree with you. And I also would prefer my phone for real use. Just happened to be on my laptop when I stumbled on your blog post :)
#5

@coderunner86 said in #4:

Ah, that makes total sense and I agree with you. And I also would prefer my phone for real use. Just happened to be on my laptop when I stumbled on your blog post :)

I should edit the blog post to make it clear that it's not usable on desktop

@coderunner86 said in #4: > Ah, that makes total sense and I agree with you. And I also would prefer my phone for real use. Just happened to be on my laptop when I stumbled on your blog post :) I should edit the blog post to make it clear that it's not usable on desktop
#6

confirmation button

Done, will be online in an couple minutes or so

> confirmation button Done, will be online in an couple minutes or so
#7

So is it an app on the Android/Apple playstore?

So is it an app on the Android/Apple playstore?
#8

@NaperCoach said in #7:

So is it an app on the Android/Apple playstore?

You can call that a web app. It uses web technologies, it's distributed on the web, and run by your web browser at https://telechecs.com

@NaperCoach said in #7: > So is it an app on the Android/Apple playstore? You can call that a web app. It uses web technologies, it's distributed on the web, and run by your web browser at https://telechecs.com
#9

I really like the idea. I often play with a phone besides a wooden board, and find the second board on the screen rather distracting. I am thinking this might also be a very neat blindfold training device.

Unfortunately i had some issues on iphone & chrome. Did get games against maia, that worked fine. But when I tried to swipe or click to somehow get to the control board position showed on your blog, the game always went missing from the webapp. While lichess still had it as "ongoing". Or when I activated the lockscreen, thereafter I only had white-screen in the webapp.

Altogether I would love if you kept improving on the technical side of things since the idea is really nice, and the interface is in fact really intuitive

I really like the idea. I often play with a phone besides a wooden board, and find the second board on the screen rather distracting. I am thinking this might also be a very neat blindfold training device. Unfortunately i had some issues on iphone & chrome. Did get games against maia, that worked fine. But when I tried to swipe or click to somehow get to the control board position showed on your blog, the game always went missing from the webapp. While lichess still had it as "ongoing". Or when I activated the lockscreen, thereafter I only had white-screen in the webapp. Altogether I would love if you kept improving on the technical side of things since the idea is really nice, and the interface is in fact really intuitive
#10

@BlackPawski said in #9:

Unfortunately i had some issues on iphone & chrome. Did get games against maia, that worked fine. But when I tried to swipe or click to somehow get to the control board position showed on your blog, the game always went missing from the webapp. While lichess still had it as "ongoing". Or when I activated the lockscreen, thereafter I only had white-screen in the webapp.

As far as I know, Chrome on IOS (or Firefox for that matter) is just a chrome on top of IOS web engine (https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/ reads like a bad joke), which was known to be a bit behind in terms of capabilities, and lastly, hasn't come into my possession. The latter being the biggest roadblock, as I'm strictly unable to figure out what doesn't work on this specific platform.

I know it's a lot to ask, but if you'd be willing to provide enough information to let me track the issues you're facing (like following this piece of documentation https://appletoolbox.com/use-web-inspector-debug-mobile-safari/), I'd be truly delighted to make it work for you.

@BlackPawski said in #9: > Unfortunately i had some issues on iphone & chrome. Did get games against maia, that worked fine. But when I tried to swipe or click to somehow get to the control board position showed on your blog, the game always went missing from the webapp. While lichess still had it as "ongoing". Or when I activated the lockscreen, thereafter I only had white-screen in the webapp. As far as I know, Chrome on IOS (or Firefox for that matter) is just a chrome on top of IOS web engine (https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/ reads like a bad joke), which was known to be a bit behind in terms of capabilities, and lastly, hasn't come into my possession. The latter being the biggest roadblock, as I'm strictly unable to figure out what doesn't work on this specific platform. I know it's a lot to ask, but if you'd be willing to provide enough information to let me track the issues you're facing (like following this piece of documentation https://appletoolbox.com/use-web-inspector-debug-mobile-safari/), I'd be truly delighted to make it work for you.