Disabling conditional premoves on Correspondence

It would be nice if there was an option to disable the use of conditional premoves in correspondence games by your opponent/you (in the same way you can disable being able to request take backs).

Those who find it useful can of course not disable it, but the ability to play and keep/abandon multiple lines on the board when planning premoves seems to put my opponent at an advantage.

@Chris1976 Your opponent doesn't have any advantage since you also have the option to create conditional premoves so you can also use it.

If you don't want to create conditional premoves, then just don't use that feature :)

I don't know what is conditional premoves.

@savagechess2k https://lichess.org/qa/2663/how-do-i-do-a-premove-in-correspondence-chess

"Those who find it useful can of course not disable it, but the ability to play and keep/abandon multiple lines on the board when planning premoves seems to put my opponent at an advantage."

If you both have access to it, it does not put your opponent at an advantage. If it is such an advantage, then why on earth don't you use it? And if you choose not to use it, then how much of an advantage can you really think it gives?

Thanks for the responses. I don’t use it because it feels like cheating to be able to test out/abandon multiple lines on the board rather than doing so in your head.

In most other formats of chess it would be against the rules – you don’t see Wesley So nipping off to test lines of the game he’s currently playing on another board.

If people want to play that way, fine, but as I said, it would be nice to have the option to disable the feature.

"I don’t use it because it feels like cheating to be able to test out/abandon multiple lines on the board rather than doing so in your head."

Cheating means doing things that are against the rules. This isn't against the rules. In calling for the means to disable this on behalf of your opponent, you are saying you should be able to unilaterally change the rules.

"In most other formats of chess it would be against the rules"

In what other format but online correspondence chess are conditional premoves even possible?

Why would it be better if I instead just wrote out the moves in my notes, and made them when I had time? This way it speeds up the game, if your opponent has already decided how to respond to your move, why shouldn't they have this option?

If you don't like the Conditional Moves button, why not make a userstyle or userscript to hide it?

Snuffington - I bow to the fact that you have a different opinion.

Toadofsky - because I wouldn't know what a userstyle or userscript was if one hit me over the head, but I'm guessing this is probably what I'm proposing Lichess does.

http://lifehacker.com/5544595/get-started-using-custom-firefox-user-styles