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Highlighting squares on the board

First of all, it's nice that you can highlight squares (and draw arrows) in multiple colors, but I have a small improvement suggestion. It sometimes disturbs me to see squares with pieces on them highlighted in colors other than green, because I feel, the highlight somehow "cuts" through the piece. Therefore I'd suggest to set the size of all highlight circles to the size of the green circle. I understand that the idea with the different sizes is for marking one square with multiple colors but I think it's hardly ever necessary or sensible to give more than one highlight to ONE square.

Thanks for considering it.
Cheers Max
wait how do you change colors? all i get is the default green.
Hold shift and you get red. Hold alt and you get dark blue. Hold shift and alt you get Gold/Yellow.
"It sometimes disturbs me to see squares with pieces on them highlighted in colors other than green, because I feel, the highlight somehow "cuts" through the piece."

So don't use the other colors. Problem solved.

"[...]I think it's hardly ever necessary or sensible to give more than one highlight to ONE square."

To highlight different lines. Did you know that in different lines, one square can hold more than one significance?
"So don't use the other colors. Problem solved."

But I sometimes WANT to use other colors (e.g. weak square - red).

"To highlight different lines. Did you know that in different lines, one square can hold more than one significance?"

If you highlight the square in a different line, you highlight the square in a different position, so no two circles will coincide on one square. I don't think my problem is all that pointless.
Not sure when you're using it, but if it's during a game, you shouldn't be highlighting squares at all - that's just as bad as taking notes or analysing on a separate board, and hardly conducive to improving either visualisation or calculation skills. I fail to understand why the site even allows it for that same reason.

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