What is a conditional move? 🤔

Guys, I was playing daily chess in a tournament. I played a move, and then a thing popped up at the top saying "You played a conditional move. It's your turn again!". This automatically played for the opponent, and this repeated like three times, so we kinda played three moves in a go. Why did this happen? 

It's like pre-moves, like, u can make lines

For example you have to go on vacation or smn, so u can make it so "if the opponent plays e4, I play e5" and "if the opponent plays d4, I play d5" etc etc

Yep. I once conditionaled a 17-move line that happened.

Wow. Skill. Let me see

Well, I can't go pull up the game, since it was a long time ago and I barely remember.

If you remember how the game ended and what the final position looked like, you can pull up all your daily games in your archive and look for the right one.

Takes way too long.

No need to break so much sweat over me. It's OK.

if you say so

sometimes the moves are obvious

the opponent can allow future moves to be predicted, so as not to delay time

It's literally a conditional move, a move that you play only when the condition is met that your opponent played a specific move. Unlike a pre-move, which is played as long as it's a legal move, you can set different continuations for different moves.

I don't use it often, when I do it's mostly when I have a forced mate. That way my opponent (nor me) doesn't have to to sit and go through a dragged out ending of the game. The other typical use case is for forced trading sequences. When both players know what the next couple of moves are going to be, there's no need for your opponent to wait until your back online again.

It's useful because it's risk free, so as an example you can also just set it for the main line of an opening to speed up the game. And if your opponent plays something else, no harm done. It's just your turn again.

It only let's you up to 10 moves @jackityjackjack

It was from a long time ago, he said, so there's probably been an update about that since