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bug #27675: Style 9 moves aren't detected by WB, affecting Blindfold play

Submitter:  Eric Mullins <nematocyst>
Submitted:  Mon 12 Oct 2009 02:31:33 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None
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Sat 17 Oct 2009 05:56:36 AM UTC, comment #3: 

It should be possible to detect style 9 moves for the sole purpose of firing a move sound.  (as opposed to updating the board, which would assist in cheating)

But as there's a decent workaround with the bell, I'm closing as won't fix.

Eric Mullins <nematocyst>
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Mon 12 Oct 2009 07:13:41 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Indeed, WinBoard is no help in blindfold ICS play. Of course it would be fairly easy to make it recognize style-9 moves. But this would essentially turn it into a cheating device for blindfold play. That is not really a worthy goal. OTOH, it is still easy enough to cheat in blindfold with old-fashioned woodware.

Of course we could make the recognition of style 9 moves dependent on "blindfold" being in force, and grey-out the blindfold option when in IcsPlayingWhite/Black mode, so that people cannot switch back during a game. But I wonder if that is worth it; if people want to cheat, they are going to cheat.

As you suggest, the ICS bell should solve the attention problem.

H.G. Muller

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Mon 12 Oct 2009 02:43:17 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Further testing reveals that on FICS, the bell can serve this purpose.  If the user has a sound event for bell, and the bell is on, then that solves the problem.

Still WB doesn't detect style 9 moves.  Probably not worth bothering with now though.

Eric Mullins <nematocyst>
Group Member
Mon 12 Oct 2009 02:31:33 AM UTC, original submission:  

I got a bug report earlier today about the difficulty in playing blindfold.  The user had to always watch the screen to detect incoming moves.  My initial advice was to set a sound event for moves, but after consulting the help, I realized blindfold play uses style 9.  As a test, I set style 9 and observed a game.  The move appears in the console, but WB doesn't detect it so no move sound fires.

Eric Mullins <nematocyst>
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