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Jeff Atwood had probably a lot more traffic on his blog and still his whole protection was a fixed word "orange". The chess guys are still way ahead in terms of captcha hardness vs spammer benefit ratio.
I'm now going over all of the forums I know trying to come up with an algorithmic forum-themed captcha. Say, "what's wrong with this recipe?" for a cooking forum :)
Brilliant building of software. Less than brilliant copy. I would change Black plays; checkmate in one! This is a chess CAPTCHA. Click on the board to make your move, and prove you are human. to This is a chess CAPTCHA... To prove that you are human, click on a black piece, then click on the only destination square that will checkmate. I really don't mean to nitpick, but took me a minute to figure out what to do. Som…
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Uh, if it's a CAPTCHA intended to be usable by those who know chess as opposed to those who actually play chess then yes, they should probably ask for what they actually want instead of saying something that will lead the user to the right assumption. Of course if it's really "CHESS player CAPTCHA" then I could be way off...
It's on a chess website, so yes, it's for chess players.
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I would change "a real user" with "a real user who doesn’t use a screen-reader". That’s less funny, but more accurate.
Out of curiosity: are there any known blind chess players? I guess it would be quite hardcore.
In the biannual international chess 'olympiads' (team competition between countries) a multi country blind players team competes. Some other disabilities are also represented in the same way.
Brilliant building of software. Less than brilliant copy. I would change Black plays; checkmate in one! This is a chess CAPTCHA. Click on the board to make your move, and prove you are human. to This is a chess CAPTCHA... To prove that you are human, click on a black piece, then click on the only destination square that will checkmate. I really don't mean to nitpick, but took me a minute to figure out what to do. Som…
Brilliant building of software. Less than brilliant copy. I would change Black plays; checkmate in one! This is a chess CAPTCHA. Click on the board to make your move, and prove you are human. to This is a chess CAPTCHA... To prove that you are human, click on a black piece, then click on the only destination square that will checkmate. I really don't mean to nitpick, but took me a minute to figure out what to do. Som…
thanks for the feedback, I will apply the suggested change soon.