Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:21:54 04/03/04
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On April 03, 2004 at 16:48:04, Bob Durrett wrote: >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? In a tournament game I cannot play the opening move in 0 seconds even if I remember them before the game because it takes time to move the pieces. It is not fair to have different situation in chess servers. Uri
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