Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 13:48:04 04/03/04
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On April 03, 2004 at 16:21:30, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 03, 2004 at 15:55:50, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On April 03, 2004 at 11:55:47, steven blincoe wrote: >> >>>i have seen player's (using a computer and pre-move client)essay forth 7-10 >>>moves per 1 recorded second on the clock >>>the moves come at you like an automatic rifle >> >>Steve, >> >>Do you consider pre-move to be a cheat? I have used it for a long time and never >>considered it a cheat (it didn't even enter my mind). I usually use Winboard and >>the pre-move "click-click" approach to moving (where you click the piece, then >>the destination square, instead of dragging the piece to the destination >>square). It is kind of like pondering for the computer. I will have a move in >>mind that I want to play, I click the piece that I'm considering moving, then >>place my mouse over the destination square, and if my opponent allows me to play >>it, one click of the mouse, and I move instantly. One time my opponent started >>1. e4, and when I responded with 1...e5 instantly he aborted the game and said, >>"a computer!" I guess he never heard of pre-move :) > > >Does it mean that you planned to play 1...e5 against every move including 1.d4? > > > > Anyway, pre-move is really a >>function of the GUI, not the server. > >I think that the server should not allow pre-move. >I think that it is simple to do it if the server ignores every information that >you send when it is the move of the opponent except resigning the game. > >I do not think that it is cheating but it is not the game that I play when I >play over the board game. > >Uri I do not understand this "premove" but assume it is a way for a HUMAN to automatically enter his/her opening repertoire in much the same way that chess computers do. If it's OK for a chess-playing program to have a memorized opening repertoire which is played automatically, then why would it not be OK for a human to do that? Does ICC allow this? Bob D.
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