I would find more useful that the origal piece-before-promotion is not added to the list of captured pieces. What do you think?
Suppose that in Chess, a player Queens a Pawn, then it gets captured. Would it be more informative to show a Queen or a Pawn in the Captured Pieces section? Since the main purpose of the Captured Pieces section is to show how balanced each side's forces are, or as you put it " to immediatly visualise the material advantage or disadvantage," showing a Pawn rather than a Queen would show this more accurately.
If you still wanted to show the Queen rather than the Pawn, you might be able to do it in the game with code specific for that game, but it cannot be done in a generalized way for any game. What Game Courier does by default is calculate which pieces from the original position are no longer on the board, and it presents these as captured pieces. This is basically the same set of pieces you would see off the board when playing with a physical set. It might be more accurate to call them something like off-board pieces, inactive pieces, or lost pieces, but I'm not sure it really needs changing.
Suppose that in Chess, a player Queens a Pawn, then it gets captured. Would it be more informative to show a Queen or a Pawn in the Captured Pieces section? Since the main purpose of the Captured Pieces section is to show how balanced each side's forces are, or as you put it " to immediatly visualise the material advantage or disadvantage," showing a Pawn rather than a Queen would show this more accurately.
If you still wanted to show the Queen rather than the Pawn, you might be able to do it in the game with code specific for that game, but it cannot be done in a generalized way for any game. What Game Courier does by default is calculate which pieces from the original position are no longer on the board, and it presents these as captured pieces. This is basically the same set of pieces you would see off the board when playing with a physical set. It might be more accurate to call them something like off-board pieces, inactive pieces, or lost pieces, but I'm not sure it really needs changing.