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Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:37 pm
by John Moore
Interestingly, in the last couple of weeks, I have lost a few games (5 + 5 second increments) on this site where I have made what looks like a mouseslip. You might think that it's a sign of old age or inebriation or both, but they don't feel right to me. Just now, I played what I thought was 0-0 and the King stopped on F8. I have also had two games, within half an hour, where I was in the process of playing a winning rook move to the eighth rank and the rook stopped on the 7th and my opponent took it. Maybe it is me and maybe they are mouseslips but I just wonder if anyone else has experienced this.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:42 pm
by John Upham
John Moore wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:37 pm
Interestingly, in the last couple of weeks, I have lost a few games (5 + 5 second increments) on this site where I have made what looks like a mouseslip. You might think that it's a sign of old age or inebriation or both, but they don't feel right to me. Just now, I played what I thought was 0-0 and the King stopped on F8. I have also had two games, within half an hour, where I was in the process of playing a winning rook move to the eighth rank and the rook stopped on the 7th and my opponent took it. Maybe it is me and maybe they are mouseslips but I just wonder if anyone else has experienced this.
I am aware that the serious persons in the "gaming" community employ high end keyboards, Mieses and other peripherals to ensure fast and accurate game play.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:49 pm
by John Moore
Thanks John. Perhaps I am being dense but why would that make any difference to my bog standard Hewlett-Packard laptop.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:19 pm
by JustinHorton
I don't use chess.com but it's not unheard of for lichess to experience possibly similar glitches. I had one the other day where it simply wouldn't recognise when I touched a square and so I couldn't move (this was on the Android app, while the web version was perfectly OK) and another some time ago where the score suddenly omitted a move, attributing white moves to black and vice versa, and moving became similarly impossible (so I lost a game on time where I was +5). On lichess it is possible to report
such incidences on a forum: what you do on chess.com I wouldn't know.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:22 pm
by John Moore
Thanks Justin. I was waiting before reporting it to see if anyone had experienced similar problems on Chess.com
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:53 pm
by Paul Cooksey
John Upham wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:42 pm
I am aware that the serious persons in the "gaming" community employ high end keyboards, Mieses and other peripherals to ensure fast and accurate game play.
Employing a grandmaster, deceased or otherwise, is a violation of the rules.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:40 pm
by John Upham
Instead of Mieses I meant to write Mouses: a mouse slip.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 1:59 am
by Joey Stewart
I find chess.com less forgiving to mouseslips then lichess - at times it feels like it almost drags the piece out of your control and plants it onto a wrong square, whereas on lichess you have to be close to deliberately letting the piece go before you get a misclick. Also lichess players tend to be a bit less obnoxious about refusing takebacks oh genuine mistakes then chess.com where they will not only refuse but also likely start bragging about how great of a player they were after they beat you.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 12:34 pm
by Reg Clucas
I think moving the pieces by 'drag & drop' is likely to be prone to this kind of thing. Better to simply click source and destination squares (in that order!)
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:09 pm
by Bob Kane
A gaming mouse will reduce mouse slip errors , provide a better grip and adjustable DPi helps , any teenage pc gamer will confirm
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:16 pm
by John Upham
Bob Kane wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:09 pm
A gaming mouse will reduce mouse slip errors , provide a better grip and adjustable DPi helps , any teenage pc gamer will confirm
Bob,
Indeed: this is what I was alluding to earlier when I wrote about gaming keyboards, mice and other peripherals.
Re: Chess.com - Mouseslips
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:42 pm
by Tim Harding
John Upham wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:40 pm
Instead of Mieses I meant to write Mouses: a mouse slip.
i hate those meeces to pieces!