hmm well i think they are for extreem time trouble or 1 minute games
I dont really get Premoves
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It's useful to premove obvious captures. For example,
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4
at this moment it makes sense for white to premove 4. Nxd4, as if black plays some other move (like 3...d6) 4.Nxd4 would become an illegal move, nullifying the premove. However if black plays 3...ed or 3...Nxd4 the premove saved white time.
This may be a bad example, but I'm sure you get my point.
Yeah, I guess so.
Well, Im all for conditional moves in Live chess.
macer75 wrote:
Searched the forums a bit but didnt find anything one the first page.
jfiquett wrote:
It's useful to premove obvious captures. For example,
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4
at this moment it makes sense for white to premove 4. Nxd4, as if black plays some other move (like 3...d6) 4.Nxd4 would become an illegal move, nullifying the premove. However if black plays 3...ed or 3...Nxd4 the premove saved white time.
This may be a bad example, but I'm sure you get my point.
Yes, and that is pretty logical. Also in case of check the move is nullified. But except for timetrouble there is no reason to make any other premove as the chance of making a huge blunder is pretty big (e.g. when the opponent decides to attack your queen with a B and you premoved your knight somewhere.)
to me more logical would be: when its your opponents turn you can move one of his pieces. After the move you move one of your pieces (= a conditional move). When youre done doing that you might want to do the same thing with a couple other moves where you already know the answer to.
I finally wanted to start using premoves. Its just.. they do not what I assumed they do and since I learned what they do I think I'll hardly ever use them.
Chess.com:
Premoves are moves you can make before it's your turn - while your opponent is still thinking!
For example, let's say you would like to castle on the next move no matter what move is played by your opponent.
The point is.. it doesnt happen alot that I know for sure that Ill make a move no matter what my opponent moves. Much more usefull to me would be conditional moves in Live chess. I thought that was the purpose of premoves and it allows you to already set a bunch of moves that will go when triggered. With the way premoves is now you can only use it in endgame or with tradeoffs and that just seems a bit limited. Or am I missing something? Searched the forums a bit but didnt find anything one the first page.