And if you were playing in the park and let the peice go,

would you also take back that move ?????

Or would you be shot, hung, drawn and quartered - possibly all at the same time..

Silly moves are unfortunately part of chess - mistakes though are quite possibly a different kettle of fish.

In flicking btwn analyse and board, i clicked on submit in haste, when i had been flipping the board, oops wrong button..

There have been far more than just a few occasions when on submit, i had a simple lapse of judgement, careless manouvre, or full on mental attack, and instantly realised OH NO!, thats not what i wanted....

A Panic button within a minute or so would allow a mistake to be overwritten, not further evaluation...

There are people here in tournaments who take far too long to analyse, sit, ponder , wait some more, analyse some more - if they had any more time who knows what would become of tournaments if they could resubmit moves.. I started three tournaments in Sept, not one of them is past round one..

I could accept a panic button strategy - but leaving only minutes of time once a submit button has been "played"...

I could save my queen at least once a week with this option.......

Originally posted by davidmacc
It's not necessary for people to have to 'suffer' for their mistakes in a friendly game. I'm all for adherence to tournament standards in the vast majority of my games, but when it's just a game between two mismatched friends what harm is there in allowing a take-back?

A set-piece game is a solution, but not a particularly good one, it would be pretty i ...[text shortened]... start of games. I really can't see how this site idea diminishes anyones RHP experience.