When playing against a Bot, or a person, would it be possible to include a 2 to 3 seconds extra time in the firmware before the clock starts counting down after the opponent’s move, when we have to move the opponents pieces, especially in the blitz and rapid games. Since playing over the bord, with an opponent that doesn’t loose any clock time, for moving the opponents pieces ?
Against other players, it’s not possible without ruining the integrity of the game. Maybe against bots if not attached to any online account or achievements. But against humans, it’s simply not fair to the other player that you get extra time because you’re playing on an e-board.
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This will never be addad just for e-boards. Select a time control that suits your thinking time.
There will be more time controles added for chess.com soon. I only play 15/10 OTB because I can’t think to fast. For what I have seen here most will use 5+5 for OTB online.
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Dear Dillontking,
Thanks for your feedback and comments !
It’s not a question of being unfair, the idea I have it’s to allow, both players, either playing against a bot or an other person, to just have the time to move your opponent pieces, before your clock restarts. This extra time would be also on the side of the remote opponent equipped with a ChessUp board, if the games are not played with two remote ChessUp boards, the extra time won’t be available.
It’s just extra time to move your opponent’s piece, on your ChessUp board. This feature should only work, if your opponent has a ChessUp board, or is a super fast bot.
Doing so, it would be more interesting to play blitz and rapid chess games.
Hope my explanations are more understandable.
With Kind Regards,
Sam
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Dear Criptix,
Thanks for your feedback !
As in tried to explain to Dillontking, it’s not a question of selecting a game time control, nor time it takes to think, it’s a question of giving time to move your opponent’s pieces, before your clock restarts. When you are playing in front of an other player, i’ts your opponent that moves his own pieces, but remotely over the board, you have to move his pieces, since he’s not there.
With Kind Regards,
Sam
It’s not a bad idea, if the system was able to detect two authentic “eboard” users and give a +1s allowance to each side for making the opponents move, if both players agree. However it would have to be very secure to ensure there are no cheaters pretending to use an “eboard” when they are not. As you can imagine in the faster time controls like blitz and bullet, even 1s of difference can decide games. This sounds like a difficult programming challenge. In the end, you will never really replicate the “real” OTB blitz experience, where players are often doing things simultaneously in time scrambles and using not even a whole second per move.
Hello Dillontking,
Thanks for the feedback and comments !
It may not be feasible, but maybe it could, of course, both remote players would need to be playing with ChessUp boards, and ‘‘configurable pieces mouving time’’ would need to be acepted by both players, and be able to get configured in both board menus or in the ChessUp app menus.
We never know, it could be an handy feature in the future for playing rapid chess between two remote players.
Take care,
Sam
@Jeff,
Hello Jeff,
Not sure you saw this subject, since you never were copied.
When you will have a moment, could you look into it and give your comments about if feasible and if it’s something in your workflow ?
Many thanks !
Sam