Keyboard input to make moves

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Hello OGS!

For those that prefer to use a keyboard instead of a mouse to enter your moves there is now a built in way to do that:

Head to Play Go at online-go.com! | OGS and toggle on this option:

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You’ll now have an input field near your pass button where you can enter the coordinates you wish to place at:

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Simply type the move and press enter! If you have submit-to-move enabled, you might want to enable the Autofocus submit button option as well so you can press enter, then enter again to actually submit the stone.

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Nice to have options. Thx!

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Why is this a thing? lol I cannot imagine myself ever using this. But I guess someone requested it?

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Accessibility (maybe ?)

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Yes primarily accessibility, and keyboard heavy users, it’s come up multiple times over the years, and it just came up again.

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Aside from accessibility, it can be used to play blindfolded! (although this also needs the moves to be read out, which I think we don’t have official support for yet, but I seem to remember someone making an extension for it?)

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Now there will be people mistyping instead of misclicking :rofl:

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I’ll probably be one of them XD

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Next step like with modern camera. Your camera will look at what you look and validation with a blink of the eye. Perfect for ultra blitz.

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You know.. it’s probably already possible today with Vision Pro or similar headsets :laughing:

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Possible but not integrated

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No i mean integrated. IIRC those headsets use eyetracking as input. And they support browser and iPhone apps. Put them together and you have OGS with your eyes!

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Ultimately, OGS will connect to your brain and just play where you think of playing. No need for any kind of interface at all!

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“Don’t touch the stones until you’re sure where to play” → “Don’t touch the mouse until you’re sure where to play” → don’t think about your move until you’re sure where to play???

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Or more annoying would be if you had something like spell check autocorrecting your input :slight_smile:

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Loved the feature.
I’d ask if its possible to write “pass” to mass my turn, for pass we still need to use mouse

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well, “pass” is different in different languages which is why I avoided that, but also you can hit ‘tab’ to advance to the pass button and press enter, so there’s no need to use the mouse - does that meet your needs?

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I smell a good idea here. Katago as autocorrection. “B4 will die in gote, the user certainly meant B5, let’s correct that!”

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Think B4 you play, after that it will be too L8.

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Yes I actually did that today.
But still was wondering if writing was possible.
But because of different languages it seems like it’s possibility a waste of time to implement :sweat_smile::sweat_smile: