premove
Before a move.
Adjective
- Before a move.
- I agree to perform residence premove surveys on domestic shipments estimated at 4,700 pounds or more, and/or international shipments estimated at 3,200 pounds or more, at origin points within a 50-mile radius of my...
- A significant portion of the planning process was dedicated to premove testing, such as testing the new facility's air-conditioning capacity. - 1975 October 1, “Planning Helps DP Center Move 10 Miles in Two Days”, in...
- Cost limits - usually estbalished as part of an initial appraisal or feasibility study and then progressively developed throughout the life of the project, e.g. initial estimate, premove cost check, tender receipt and...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move English premove From pre- + move.
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Noun
- On certain chess websites: a move set during the opponent's turn which is played automatically (if possible) after the opponent has made their move, done in order to save time in predictable positions.
- Kasparov's loss to Caruana was a tragedy in a winning position. He wanted to trade queens by Qe4-c2, but a mouse slip landed the queen on d3. He tried to drag it to c2, which the computer registered as a premove that...
- Bortnyk's lead was never really in doubt and he converted game after game with brisk speed as premoves flew across the board by both players. Nothing seemed to click for Robson as even critical premoves seemed all too...
- Premove — In online chess games, setting a piece to move automatically after an opponent moves. - [2022 June 13, Isaac Aronow, “Chess Terms and Vocabulary”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan...
Forms
Verb
- To make a premove.
- Game 18 was another up-and-down affair. First, Esipenko dropped a full rook, which went unpunished as Sarana had probably premoved his reply. - 2019 June 12, Peter Doggers, “Junior Speed Chess: Sarana Beats Esipenko”,...
- The second game was drawn. In the third, a bit of drama happened: in a position that was somewhere between equality and a slight advantage to White, Nakamura, by misclicking or premoving or for whatever other reason,...
- To incite or cause someone to do something.
- Let it be assumed, then, that God does premove earthly phenomena, and let the further very obvious supposition be also made that He does not desire this premovement to be a visible and palpable fact. - 1867, William...
- To promote or endorse.
- The succeſs that the Presbyterians had in the late troubles againſt the King and his adherents, were undeniable Signs of God's Favour to that party; to follow and premove their Succeſs, was to follow Providence, […] -...