turn off conditional moves

The argument against conditional moves is as ridiculous as requiring your opponent to think about their move for at least 30 seconds OTB. 

Also, as stated, there is a long standing tradition of conditional moves in correspondence chess. Its the norm. 

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This argument is so stupid I have no ideas what to post.

If I see forced mate in 10 moves, why not use it?

If I saw a checkmate in 10 then I would try and altar the outcome. Anyway whoever loves conditional moves should try and play someone in person.

Conditional moves are the foundation of any combination anyway.

If he goes there, I go there, and if he goes there I go there.

Conditional moves are the greatest feature on here!  Why would I not use it, if my opponent ony has one move after I put him in check?

^^^ What he said...

If they should change anything, then it's the fact that the game stays on instead of jumping back to the end of the queue.

Why would you not use conditional moves when play is either forced or very obvious (i.e. piece captures and recaptures)???

Why not just start a group for people who don't CM's, and just play members of that group?

 u can stay on this game in your settings

I like conditional moves.  Why prolong a game if you see the obvious outcome.  Unlimited conditional moves is one of the perks of upgrading your membership and one of the reasons I upgraded mine.  I'd be very angry if I couldn't use it.

yeah right

if i am going to exchange major tools like queen rook or check back and forth conditional moves..... are a must.

and more there should be a sign or blinking icon showing  that  a certain game is now on conditional option or move

I know and I would be surprised not to be the situation. One of the first things a beginner learns is that there is no point in calculating long variations (3 or 4 lines, 4 to 5 moves deep) when the position is not very sharp (and, if there are 3-4 different lines, it means it is not sharp). What you just said comes from the common misunderstanding -- widespread here on chess.com -- that chess is only a game of blind, stupid calculation, and any monkey, given unlimited time, is able to defeat Kasparov.

Yes, but the suggestion is to give the ability to not stay on the game when a conditional move is triggered.  Currently this is what happens no matter what your preference is set to.

in this post only low rated players are against conditional moves. Why? Well...you can imagine why...

A bit high and mighty there King!

But a valid point. I know that when I was first starting to play here I would always feel like the higher-rated players that I was playing against were "taking advantage" of my low rating by using conditional moves. I now know that that was a very foolish thing to think. My rating isn't considerably higher than it was (though I've been told I play 300 points higher than my rating...*shrug*) but I now almost hope that people use conditional moves, even though most of the time it turns out to have a negative result for me.

Conditional moves are good, why should my opponent be able to turn of my conditional moves? These moves are good in force move situations where a player is stalling and making the game go on and on.

Conditional moves just show how much thought an opponent has put into the game.

Another possible argument I can see that could contribute to the desire to restrict your opponent's ability to make condidtional moves is that for non-premium members vacation cannot be turned on until moves have been made in all of their games.  A long line of conditional moves could really prove a hinderance to being able to accomplish this, particularly if some of your other opponents are also online at the same time.

I believe, however, that at its root this is a problem with the way the vacation restriction has been implemented and not a conditional move issue.  Non-premium members should actually be allowed ot turn on vacation at any time, but for those games in which it is their move the clock should continue to count down until they've made their move.  Once they've done so and their opponent has responded (contitional or otherwise) the game should then be put in vacation mode and their clock stopped.

How does uswing conditional moves abuse anyone? In fact they can help low rated players. if the line is poor he is locked in unless he stops a poor line before the move is made.

מוצTheGrobe wrote: There's really no difference between your opponent being online and responding immediately with a move and using a conditional move to simulate thatwרי

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what i mean some players  i am playing with answer after 2 days for a 3 day  (even if on line )interval so i have 5 days to till their move so i can take my time.

if they make a conditional move  i have 3

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 exactly, and it really messes up your timing