It has been a while that i am wodering how come my opponent's game moves or replies even if his icon does not show he is online.. does it mean a pre-arranged replies from engines is working instead?  God bless you all!

brod, he may be using the "conditional move" option ... (not necessarily from programs) ... but he has programmed his move/s based on what he thinks you will be moving.

Either that or he could be playing from a cell phone.

thanks for that info, The MachineKiller.

Okey,, tnx for the explanation Brod Dalf,, after all I was just also asked by my younger brother r2d2d3d4, who like me has just enrolled chess.com  Shared intellect and shared familiarity is Godly, avoiding confusions.. God bless you all!

Well, if it was conditional moves it would say so. I actually don't like Conditionals. He may well be cheating.

Oh, FFS.  Do you have an intimate knowledge of how the online/offline icon works here?  Is there any basis for your wild accusation?  Or is it just the usual hysteria about how you don't understand something, so it must be cheating?

with rich it would be the latter.

     There is also the possibility the moves are occurring from a form

     of psychokinesis. If your opponent had stared at the board contemplating

     moves or combinations with a high level of concentration, it is very likely

     the moves are telekinetic.  This phenomnon is called the "outer limit"

     variation.

Occassionaly I can log on from my bed, when I am int hat REM state of sleep, go in, do a few moves and log back off....all without ever going near the keyboard.

I call it the Blunder Knightmares, I log off and go to bed, then wake to find I have logged on without even realising it, never gone near the keyboard, but with the power of my own subconcious, sadly my subcioncious is crap at chess and has usually given away my Queen or sacrificed a key pawn.

Its like the opposite of the elves and the shoemaker, I am metaphorically sneaking downstairs and unpicking my own shoes.  

This has derailed, and I can only assume that rich there was joking....(although I don't know the chess.com forum regulars) But such an accusation would be pretty absurd and without basis.

     I knew a kid that would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.  He would walk to the toilet, shake some dew, flush, and go back to bed - only to wake up and realize he had wet his bed.