Upside-down pieces on offline chess board - Chess Forums

ikkoku

Jun 3, 2023

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Hello,

Is it possible to have a setting that allow you to have upside-down black pieces so, on a portable both players can have their pieces with a proper orientation? This because at the moment, if you are playing with black, your pieces are facing the “wrong” direction.

Thanks, Gianluca.

Martin_Stahl

Jun 3, 2023

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ikkoku wrote:

Hello,
Is it possible to have a setting that allow you to have upside-down black pieces so, on a portable both players can have their pieces with a proper orientation? This because at the moment, if you are playing with black, your pieces are facing the “wrong” direction.
Thanks, Gianluca.

How it looks will depend on which app you have and if you have auto-rotate on or not.

For example, Android auto-rotate allows the device to stay in the table and the board orientation switches after each move.

ikkoku

Jun 3, 2023

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#3

Yes, but I do not want to use the board rotation after every move. I would love to have the black pieces upside down so both the players can see their pieces with right orientation.

Martin_Stahl

Jun 3, 2023

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ikkoku wrote:

Yes, but I do not want to use the board rotation after every move. I would love to have the black pieces upside down so both the players can see their pieces with right orientation.

It was brought up recently by staff and I don't think that's going to become an available option. Though you could always suggest it under Help > Make a Suggestion