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- Low Time Clock Colors (Bullet Only) when checked if the clock is under
three minutes the clock with less time is colored red. This overrides the normal clock color. The idea is to always let the user know if they are ahead or behind the time of their opponent.
- Check Move Legality when checked, and this is default, Lantern will reject a move that the interface determines is illegal rather than send it to the server for validation. This is to save time as server round trips over a miss mouse move for example cost time. The original purpose was if there was ever a bug in client move legality this could be unchecked to allow the move. This does not appear to be an issue in current Lantern.
- Unobserve Games Gone Examine when checked if a game ends and one of the players goes into examine mode after the game, rather than continue to observe Lantern will unobserve the game. This can be used with the follow command. If a user follows the high rated game and a game ends and goes examine, the normal behavior is a new board/tab opens for the next game. If the first game is unobserved it will reuse that board and not open new tabs/boards.
- Switch to New Game Tab on Observe when checked, and this is default, if the user observes a game and is not playing the board will switch to the new game. If not checked observing additional games will open tabs/boards but the user will have to manually switch to see the new game/s.
- Tabs Only This has its own help at Viewing with Multiple Chess Boards
- Board Aspect Ratio This works when in Board menu then Board Design sub menu the Original board design choice is selected or the Mixed and board is not maximized. The normal board has a one to one ratio between a board squares height and width. The choices on this menu give progressively wider squares making for a bigger board on wide screen monitors when board is made wide.
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