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Coditional Moves


  • 8 months ago · Quote · #1

    couchpotatoe

    These moves are crap! Playing a 14 day move tourney. What is the point? Trying to speed up the game? I just slow down when they are pulled on me, as the person tries to speed me up they will get the opposite!

    As well they are not in a real game.

    I know i made a spelling e with Conditional

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #2

    Boz3030

    It's your perogative to use or not use them at your will.  Personally, I haven't yet, but I attribute that mostly to my inability to calculate a plan a few moves in advance.  If you know you will move Nf3 when they make x move, and you've made that decision, what's the harm in setting the game up to make that move for you.  It's not meant as a "hurry up", just a way to keep the game moving.  Tournaments go for long enough as it is, what's the harm?!

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #3

    artfizz

    couchpotatoe wrote:

    These moves are crap! Playing a 14 day move tourney. What is the point? Trying to speed up the game? I just slow down when they are pulled on me, as the person tries to speed me up they will get the opposite!

    As well they are not in a real game.

    I know i made a spelling e with Conditional


    There are there in real games of Correspondence Chess - on which chess.com's Turn-Based Chess is modelled.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #4

    Dutchday

    It's your choice what you want to do with conditional moves. Personally I don't like it if the game is delayed over a book move or some obvious check/check block. Now, if I put the condition on my opponent can at least make another move, even when I'm not there. It's your own problem if you feel ''rushed.'' You are not. 14 days is an enormous amount of time. You know what is bad? If people know full well what they are going to play and then don't do it. 

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #5

    ZucchiniMann

    The only thing i regret with the way it works at chess.com is that your opponent does not see your conditional moves. I think that he should receive them and accept them or reject them. But this way, you wouldnt feel that the opponent wants to rush you. I like conditional moves because it forces you to some discipline. What if your programmed moves are crap?
  • 8 months ago · Quote · #6

    Dutchday

    Conditional moves are very common in correspondence, it's a form of courtesy in fact. Of course it can go wrong, as in the game: 1.d4 g6 (And 2...Bg7 on anything, says black.) White played 2...Bh6 and black resigned.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #7

    pathfinder416

    As already stated, conditional moves are a traditional device for CC games. The goal is to save time (in the old days of postal chess, this was an even bigger thing). From your perspective, couchpotatoe, it should seem no different than if your opponent saw your move immediately and responded within a few seconds. There is no logical basis for complaint.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #8

    Sabachka

    I don't think anybody who signed up for a game paced at 14 days/move is worried about you "slowing down."

    You're stressing yourself out over nothing.

  • 8 months ago · Quote · #9

    couchpotatoe

    pathfinder416 wrote:

    As already stated, conditional moves are a traditional device for CC games. The goal is to save time (in the old days of postal chess, this was an even bigger thing). From your perspective, couchpotatoe, it should seem no different than if your opponent saw your move immediately and responded within a few seconds. There is no logical basis for complaint.


    sure there is. normal chess has no such move unless you compare it to blitz style

    don't like , and i am sure many others don't neither as well i don't get stressed over a joke of a chess game. Too many other real things to do in life like pay taxes

    that is stressful especially if you live in Canada


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