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Other chess apps have the mouse approximately in the center of the piece so that when you drop the piece it's dropped where the piece and the mouse is located. I've accidentally dropped the pieces on the wrong squares on this page, since the mouse is to the right of the piece.

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Which browser and OS are you using? I notice that behavior in Firefox on Mac, but not in Chrome on Mac. When I tested years ago in Chrome and Firefox on Linux, that definitely wasn't happening. In general, I've found a few inconsistent behaviors on how drag and drop is implemented across browsers and OSes, and possibly in different browser versions over time.

Yeah, strange behavior in Firefox on Mac.

Firefox on windows as well. As soon as I try to drag it, the piece gets much larger and moves left and up from where the mouse is.

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