Instant Pre-Move

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rwolst

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

TheGrobe

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.

waffllemaster

What site gives instant premoves?  I don't know of any.

ThrillerFan

ICC it's 1/10 of a second.

Lucifer99

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

Mainline_Novelty

Yeah, instant pre-moves doesn't seem fair...

macer75

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.

rwolst

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.

TheGrobe

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.

MJ4H

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."

attack_10

What's the problem when its there for both the players?