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by wetpaste 484 days ago
I love the concept. I wouldn't prefer to play chess this way, but I've had a lot of practice, I find it visually a little distracting but I started getting used to it.

I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal. Not sure how you solve that, maybe when clicking on a piece, recalculate the board as if the piece is no longer there?

Wonder if simple fork, skewer, or attack counting threats could also be highlighted in some way. I suppose at a certain point it's just too visually busy and the tactics get way deeper than the surface level notions and end up being a distraction, but could be fun exploring an opening or previous game and seeing the "obvious" threats you might not have seen when playing

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>I love the concept.

Thanks!

>I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal.

Are you sure? Can you send a screenshot? Any place the opposing bishop attacks would have a dot on it. (The green highlighting when you pick up a piece shows all legal moves, not just safe moves.)

This is presumably what they mean: https://imgur.com/bPFmcSp

The square to the bottom right of the Queen isn't "currently" visible to the bishop, but if the Queen moved into that square they'd still be killed by the bishop.

On Lichess you can visualize then confirm your move, helps a lot