Isn't disabling premove cheating?

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Avatar of sadkid2008

The answer is straight and simple: Disable playing chess.

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macer75 wrote:
bagahc wrote:

@macer75

 

(1) Would you call it cheating if someone who has not disabled (or has enabled) the premove function does not make any premoves? (2) And how about the promotion function (always queen on promotion)? Since it cannot be made mandatory should it be deleted? It is an advatage to use it for you 1) save some time, 2) avoid underpromotions by misclicks (it has happened to me), 3) will almost always promote your pawn to a queen, nonetheless. 

(1) No, I would not consider it cheating. Even though one may not intend to make any premoves, as long as the function is enabled there is the chance that one may make a premove unintentionally as a result of a misclick.

(2) That is a good question, and admittedly one that I did not initially consider. As you pointed out, it cannot be made mandatory - so I would suggest that it be removed entirely, to eliminate scenarios where one player in a game has the function enabled, while his or her opponent has it disabled. I think it is debatable whether the function is an advantage or a disadvantage, but if it is eliminated entirely then both players would have the exact same advantage or disadvantage, and so it wouldn't matter which one it is.

Although I have no idea whether you are serious or just trolling I like your consistency. Consequently, if you are about to ask the Chess.com staff to make the changes please do not forget to mention also the SUBMIT button in online (correspondence) games. It makes it possible to play a move on the board and cancel it afterwards which is something I would not be allowed to do OTB. If we carry on for a while I believe we will find more issues and problems. Laughing

Avatar of liu_owen

no its not cheating

Avatar of practicemaster

Premoves should be illegal. It's not real chess

Avatar of Cag4000
There is no premoves in chess.
Avatar of Cag4000
What are you talking about.
Avatar of NathanHoover

Disabling premove is not cheating, nor does it give a player an unfair advantage because either player has the option of turning it off.

Avatar of evert823

Hi just a question. Is premove available in live chess? I was looking for it but couldn't find it.

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evert823 wrote:

Hi just a question. Is premove available in live chess? I was looking for it but couldn't find it.

Home>Settings>Live>Play>Enable Premove>Save    Have fun!

Avatar of Ubik42
I should be able to enable/disable premoves for my opponent. On each turn.
Avatar of ericthatwho

Thanks for the smells. I'll disable premove now

Avatar of congrandolor

Premove helps a lot in blitz/bullet.