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

[Sylvain Beucler-4]

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                 Summary: Style 9 moves aren't detected by WB, affecting
Blindfold play
                 Project: XBoard
            Submitted by: nematocyst
            Submitted on: Sun 11 Oct 2009 08:31:33 PM MDT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: Confirmed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

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.




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[Sylvain Beucler-4]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #27675 (project xboard):

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.

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[Sylvain Beucler-4]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #27675 (project xboard):

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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[Sylvain Beucler-4]

Update of bug #27675 (project xboard):

                  Status:               Confirmed => Wont Fix              
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                

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Follow-up 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.

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