Is this accepted practise?

[K K Rossokolski]

Thanks, Herr Kommandant for clearing that one up!!

There are a couple of other issues -if we collectively insisted on playing every scen blind, no individual would be ethically permitted to play any scen more than once, nor indeed would one be permitted to play H2H a scen which one had played against the AI. Reductio ad absurdum!!

This is largely an expansion of Huib's point - we are in some sense engaged in a multi dimensional chess game -to expect we can hide the initial board setup is illusory .

Cheers
KKR