Hello,
interesting idea, I have an obvious question: how would illegal moves be handled?
For example, if the pre-move is a pawn move but the opponent's last move is such that the pawn cannot move (blocked), what would happen?
It could give crucial information on the opponent's last move if one's was allowed to try another pre-move.
Good catch, I didn't think it through far enough to catch that. Simply revealing the opponent's move seems like giving away too much, but you can probably figure out what they did if you know something isn't valid.
Hello,
interesting idea, I have an obvious question: how would illegal moves be handled?
For example, if the pre-move is a pawn move but the opponent's last move is such that the pawn cannot move (blocked), what would happen?
It could give crucial information on the opponent's last move if one's was allowed to try another pre-move.
One idea is to loss the game if your premove is illegal (this rule in applied in a similar variant here). A less serious punishment would be to halve the clock time of that player.
Standard rules except you have to pre-move every move. The way this works is you don't see the opponent's move until after your pre-move is submitted, but your clock starts ticking once their move is submitted to the server. Another way to think of this is like a limited Fog where you can see everything except their most recent move.
This is already suggested in lichess (link). There, the poster's idea was to retry making a legal move, without revealing the last move. See my other comment for other ideas.
You can lise that pic
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Standard rules except you have to pre-move every move. The way this works is you don't see the opponent's move until after your pre-move is submitted, but your clock starts ticking once their move is submitted to the server. Another way to think of this is like a limited Fog where you can see everything except their most recent move.