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

Submitted by:  Eric Mullins <nematocyst>
Submitted on:  Mon 12 Oct 2009 02:31:33 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Wont Fix
Assigned to: NoneOpen/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>
Project Member
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

Anonymous
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>
Project 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>
Project Member

 

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