Comments on lishogi.org/blog/post/uid/new-lishogi-update-25
Awesome stuff as always; thank you and happy new year!
Sometimes in Tsume you have to keep Rook/Bishop unpromoted to avoid the pawn-drop mate.I've seen a few puzzles like that.
Very good update except for auto promoting in puzzles. Even if no puzzles actively on the site require under promotion, removing the option feels strange.
@hirohiigo Does a puzzle even exist where you have to underpromote?
It's not hard to make one, in fact there are already many out there.
I made one too: lishogi.org/editor/5gs2/7k1/5R1pl/7S1/9/9/9/9/9_b_r2b3g2s4n3l17p_1
@CouchTomato Yes, underpromotion is pretty common in tsumeshogi to avoid mate with a dropped pawn.
Another issue - the new clock sounds are much better than before, but the counting seems off by 1 second compared to every other shogi timer. I would expect each number to be read the moment that number appears on the clock, not once that number has expired.
The reason for the auto promotion is because yaneuraou doesn't consider not promoting bishop/rook, so we get puzzles where both promoting and not promoting is a correct solution - github.com/WandererXII/lishogi/issues/736, but we require one correct unambiguous solution.
I can revert this for now and think of a better solution later?
I play the clock sound 500ms earlier, than it should to leave more leeway (it also takes some small time before the sound starts playing, etc.). Also the tenths of seconds make it look a bit weird, if you turn that off (lishogi.org/account/preferences/shogi-clock) maybe it looks better? But I agree that this will need some finetuning.