Conditional moves are moves you plan out, so if you're waiting for your opponent to move and think you know what they'll do you can say "ok, if they go there, then I'll go there." It's just something to help correspondance games progress a little quicker. I would check that game again, chances are good you didn't really get to move twice in a row, and white had a move set up and ready to go.
What are conditional moves?
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They are moves, with conditions.
That looks like one heck of a game you played there... :P
rgallagher wrote:
Conditional moves are moves you plan out, so if you're waiting for your opponent to move and think you know what they'll do you can say "ok, if they go there, then I'll go there." It's just something to help correspondance games progress a little quicker. I would check that game again, chances are good you didn't really get to move twice in a row, and white had a move set up and ready to go.
You're right. Thank you very much for the expanation.
Adrenalyn wrote:
That looks like one heck of a game you played there... :P
hahaha Not one of my best days, that's for sure.
This is what my board looked like before I was told I made a conditional move with me playing black (sorry that the diagram says white's to move. Actually it was my turn at this point in the game so black is to move):
The move that was just made was white's queen moved from three squares left to take my bishop (who was where the queen is now). In responce, I moved my pawn (the one in front of the rook) forward two. I was told I had made a conditional move and got another move. A quick google search told me what exactly a conditional move is but it didn't tell me why I was given another move. Would someone please fill me in?