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Drawing arrows to arbitrary squares

I'm not sure if this is a design decision, or a bug, but I observed the following phenomenon: if you hold the right mouse button down, to draw arrows, you can only draw arrows to squares in which a chess piece (located at the base of the arrow) can move to, *except* if you continue to hold the mouse button down, and move the cursor out of the game board, after which you can now choose an arbitrary end point for your arrow.

For example, if you right click c3, and attempt to draw an arrow to g4, it will automatically grab g3 as the end point, unless you first move your cursor off the game board (without releasing right mouse button down).

Not a big deal, just an observation.
It's intentional. Also, you can turn off arrows snapping to legal moves in the settings.

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