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Multiple premoves

Sometimes you get a position where you want to premove several moves in a row. For instance when you are moving a pawn down the board that will queen, and there is nothing to catch it.

Wouldn't it make sense if you could load in more than 1 premove so that you can continue making moves several moves into the future?
Premoves are already getting exploited by people trying to run the clock down, this would be horrible imo.
This is the "speed chess" era , but the Ultra maniacs have gone completely mad.
Ultra is very slow for them. Ultra berserk (7,5 secs per game) isn't fast enough. They play the 3-secs-challenge , support double / triple / multiple premoves etc...
I think this story has gone far enough.
You can do as many consecutive conditional premoves as you want.. in correspondence. :^)

In faster time controls, it doesn't make that much sense anyways. Either your opponent moves just as fast as you do (because you are in a bullet match), then you won't feel the difference (they'll move before you could premove the second move in the chain), or they are not, and then you have plenty of time to use their turn to premove every step and enjoy the 0.1 seconds you gain each time.

If you play a medium fast game and just want to do your next five moves immediately so you have nothing to do in the next couple of minutes.. please keep your hands above the table. There's time for that after you are done with your match.

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