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Disable analysis drawing circles, lines during playing RATED games

Drawing lines and circles gives big advantage in classic games (visualization) and it is not allowed. it is also some kind of cheating since we can not draw on chessboard during game.

Drawing lines and circles during game should be allowed by opponent player since it change chess to "drawing chess variant" what someone not want play.
Have you ever tried drawing lines/circles in a game? More than a few moves in the future and it gets pretty confusing. As such they don't really give an unfair advantage, since it's an equal or greater mental task to keep track of the arrows as it is to just keep track in your head. Plus allowing streamers to draw arrows for their audience to follow along shouldn't be restricted to casual games.
@Phyisis It is not confusing when you play 15m +15s or 30m +30s at all. You can verify and tactics what give you great advantage.

Whatever if you do it first time it can be confusing like first walk of child but after some time you can walk without any problems.

Breh, have you really used arrows ever? i personally dont
there's arrows and circles all over the board; it gets confusing and you can't remember which piece corresponds to which arrow
I never have really used arrows during a rated game, but in tactics puzzles I used to, so I can see how it could help people check tactics in games. However, this isn't really necessary at higher ratings as you're already normally pretty decent at chess visualization.

I don't think it should be removed. I know currently chess.com has it disabled for tactics and rated games. I don't see the need. It helps content creators on twitch and youtube, and it's not unfair because both players have access to it.

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