Once upon a time, I thought that the idea of “misclick” in correspondence was kind of wierd. You have all the time in the world, how can you misclick?
Now I’ve had a run of three of them in fairly short succession, you’d think I’d learn, but there is an actual trap.
The problem is that the “Submit” button is in the same place as the “Back to Game” button.
I’ve recently been playing in the Fast Correspondence Tourney - where analysis is disabled.
This means that in those games, I’m poking around not in analysis mode, seeing what it looks like with a stone on the board.
Meanwhile, in other games, I’m poking around in analysis mode, so when I know what I want to play, I am in the habit of hitting “Back to Game” as the thing when “I know what I want to do”.
So then cut to disabled mode game: plonking a stone here or there to see what it looks like. Thinking a bit, then deciding, “Nah, I will go over there actually: decided”, reaching up and hitting “Back to Game”.
Oh darn: that was Submit.
I fear this might be a hard suggestion to get over the line, because changing a button people use all the time is a bit of a big deal.
But I’d really like to see the Back To Game button placed differently to the Submit button.
(You could say “just don’t use analysis mode, you lazy git”, but I don’t think a proposal to remove that would fly either )
GaJ