Option to rotate the board

Not sure whether it has been asked before, but an option to rotate the board would be useful. Personally, I want to use it on a completed game as I like all my games to follow the same orientation, but I’m not sure whether there are players who want to rotate the board during the game.

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The last one.

Please use search before posting.

Although I actually searched for this one and I even knew the thread it was in but couldn’t find it!
I missed “rotation”!

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Discourse search is so awful. Sometimes I know exactly what I want and still can’t find it even with several key words and even a known author.

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I want this to be implemented so I didn’t search there :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sometimes I feel like it’s purposely not showing me what I want to find

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foldable-Rotatable-Portable-Expandable-Vertical-Black/dp/B0CYZKKR4N?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A1405UA6KT08QN&th=1

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I used gyroscope, this restrained the results a lot.

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In case anyone wants to help themselves to a little script to use perhaps as a bookmarklet (with the caveat that it might not be the best for live games, as the controls still use the old coordinates, so will appear rotated - but should be okay for spectating, or for correspondence games)

javascript:(function rot(){document.getElementsByClassName('Goban')[1].style.transform='rotate(180deg)';document.getElementsByClassName('Goban')[1].style.transformOrigin='center';})()
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Knew I’d seen this somewhere ^^

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Thanks for reminding me, @Fragile_Pākehā :slightly_smiling_face:

Back in the past millennium, IIRC it must’ve been in the late 1980s, I used to play with a friend, and in some games we occasionally rotated the board just as described above in order to better train our pattern recognition – that was challenging but a lot of fun also :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

(We had several severe misconceptions about the game, though, so this didn’t really help us get stronger.)

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