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Conditional Moves
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:21 am
by redketchuplover
Can this be installed here? Sorry if this has been asked before. Thank you.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:11 am
by eraymond
just when you start a tournament !
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:57 am
by redketchuplover
in other words never!
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:06 pm
by jsnyder
The one thing I disliked about conditional moves is that it helped your opponent think by showing them what you thought were their only options so they could focus on them.
when I played regular corr through mail/email through USCF, I would only use conditional moves if the play was totally forced.
it might be useful here for those situations where you have only a day or two left on time and a forced 8 move mate.
If your opponent knows your log on habits and has more time, he can send his moves when he knows you won't be online so you use more of your time.
I actually used to do that in ICC Corr. Several people I knew when they played so I would send after they logged off for the night.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:03 pm
by gmiller
I've thought about implementing them. I just haven't because it's fairly complicated to implement without making the user interface unruly. I'll probably get to it some day.
Re: Conditional Moves
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:31 pm
by huw
There is no need to change the user interface, just use the exising move box.
Just append the "if " command to already existing commands for the move box: "resign", "draw", "acceptdraw"
Regular move: user writes "d2d4"
Conditional move: user writes "if d2d4 e5d4 f3d4"
Assuming the moves are played: 1.e4 e5 2.Ng1f3 d6
White is moving 3.d4 and wants to play after 3...exd4 4.Nf3
White is writing into the move box: "if d2d4 e5d4 f3d4" (without quotes)