All Boards

These preferences apply to options specific to the old UI chess boards shown on older Chess Tempo pages. These settings are only available when launched from one of pages using the older boards, such as the game database or endgame training page. For newer boards, many of these settings are available by clicking on the board settings icon in the left corner of the board.

Highlight Last Move Squares

If this option is turned on, the from and to squares of the last piece to move are highlighted on the board, allowing you to easily identify the last move made. This option can be especially useful on tactic problems, where sometimes the previous opponent move can be important in deciding your response, either by giving some extra context to the problem - or more directly - if the move was a pawn move that allowed an en-passant capture.

Highlight Drop Square

When this option is enabled, the square a piece will drop on during drag and drop piece movement is highlighted. If the square of the drop location is a legal move, the square will be coloured green, otherwise it will be coloured red. This option is highly recommended if you are experiencing mouse slips, as it clearly shows where the piece will be dropped when you let go of the mouse which can be a source of confusion if the piece was dragged from off-centre.

Disable Drag and Drop

This option turns off Drag and Drop piece movement, and you must rely only on click-and-click for piece movement. If you only use click-and-click it is recommended you turn this off as it saves some browser resources that would otherwise be used.

Note

You need to reload the page if you change this option, and if this option is off you must make sure click and click piece moved is not also disabled, otherwise piece movement will be impossible.

Disable Click and Click

This disables Click-and-Click piece movement, the most common reason for wanting to disable this is to remove the square highlighting associated with this mode of movement, as even when drag and drop mode is used exclusively, the source square is still highlighted when the drag is initialized.

Note

If this option is off you must make sure drag and drop is not also disabled.