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Suppose you are playing a blitz game against Fritz or on our chess server and have reached a winning position. Problem: the chess clock continues to tick inexorably and valuable thinking time is lost entering moves.
Our programs offer the option of configuring move input with the mouse. The necessary settings can be accessed in the board window via File > Options. After choosing the Game tab in the dialog box, you will find a section described as Single click entry.
Here you can influence the input of moves and make what is in any case a very difficult life as a blitz fiend somewhat simpler.
The best thing is to simply try out how single click entry works. In order to better learn the advantages of the system, just switch on single click entry by using the mouse to tick the box for NORMAL.
Now when you enter moves with the mouse, the following happens:
If you click on the destination square for a piece and only one piece can move to that square, then the move is executed immediately. The best way to understand this principle is learning by doing.
Simply start a new game. If you want to enter the move which Bobby Fischer considered the strongest opening move, namely 1.e2-e4, all you have to do is click on the e4-square once. The move is then immediately executed. Unlike in normal move input when one drags the piece from its starting to its destination square, this procedure saves a great deal of very valuable thinking time.
At an advanced stage of the game it will always come down to a situation where several pieces can move to the planned destination square. In this case the piece which last made a move will go to the destination square. This option makes sense above all in cases of perpetual check when you are in time trouble, but also works very well in piece manoeuvring. These functions are only available with the setting Aggressive.
If there is no clear indication as to which piece should move to the destination square on which you have clicked, then you have to activate the piece to move with a second mouse click.
So far we have dealt with moving a piece by means of a click on the destination square. But it also works the other way round, if you first click on the piece which is to make the move. This method also allows you to save a great deal of thinking time when entering moves:
If s piece is clicked which has only one legal move available to it, then that move is executed on the spot.
If you click on the squares e1, or g8, then – if it is possible – short castling for White or Black is executed.
If you click on a piece which can take the last piece moved by your opponent the the captute is executed. This makes sense, e.g., for a recapture in a series of exchanges. This option is only available if the Aggressive setting has been chosen.
The simplest way to understand single click entry is by trying it out and evaluating it. The system also provides excellent help, moreover, when you are want to enter your own games into our programs and save them in a database of your own. For bullet players on our server, understanding this function is an absolute must in order to save valuable time.
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