They used to be instantanous, but chess.com changed it. I can't remember the reasoning behind the change but I do remember disagreeing with it.
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What site gives instant premoves? I don't know of any.
I believe they said that in real life you couldnt possibly move that fast, so it wasn't fair to make it instant, but didn't want to take half a second away from you
Yeah, instant pre-moves doesn't seem fair...
Well, it's not possible to make a move in less than 0.1 secs without premoving, so I think it's fair for a premove to take 0.1 secs.
I agree, online chess isn't meant to be 'real life' chess. I would never play a bullet match in real life because I'd probably end up knocking all the pieces over and breaking the clock.
Instant pre-moves please.
In real life you also can't really commit your move without knowing your opponent's. I think that in exchange for this heightened risk profile, allowing moves to be made with no time penalty makes sense.
FICS makes it an option. If both players have a variable set to off, it takes 0.0 seconds. If either of them has it set to on, it takes 0.1 seconds. The variable is called "minmovetime."
Is there any reason pre-moves take ~0.2s instead of being instant?
I find this very annoying especially when it comes to the end of bullet chess games. I've played on other servers and their pre-moves do not take any time off the clock.
Rob