# premove
## English
### Etymology

From pre- +‎ move.

### Noun

premove (plural premoves)
* (Internet chess) 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.
** 2020 September 15, Leonard Barden, “Technical hazard trips up Kasparov as Carlsen and Nakamura battle to a tie”, in Financial Times‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-04: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 fatally lost a bishop. "Computers hate me!" said Kasparov, who famously lost to IBM Deep Blue in 1997.
** 2022 March 11, Anthony Levin, “Bullet Chess Championship Losers Round 2: Bortnyk, Erigaisi, Jacobson, Martinez Advance”, in Chess.com‎, archived from the original on 2022-03-16: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 often to be mistimed: […]
** [2022 June 13, Isaac Aronow, “Chess Terms and Vocabulary”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2023-01-17:Premove — In online chess games, setting a piece to move automatically after an opponent moves.]

### Verb

premove (third-person singular simple present premoves, present participle premoving, simple past and past participle premoved)
* (Internet chess) To make a premove.
** 2019 June 12, Peter Doggers, “Junior Speed Chess: Sarana Beats Esipenko”, in Chess.com‎, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:Game 18 was another up-and-down affair. First, Esipenko dropped a full rook, which went unpunished as Sarana had probably premoved his reply.
** 2021 October 3, Yuriy Krykun, “Champions Chess Tour Finals Day 1: Carlsen Impressive In Opener”, in Chess.com‎, archived from the original on 2022-11-27: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, hung a piece to a one-move tactic.
* (philosophy, theology, rare) To incite or cause someone to do something.
** 1867, William George Ward, Essays on the Philosophy of Theism: Supplementary remarks on freewill, volume 2, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., published 1884, page 187: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.
* (obsolete) To promote or endorse.
** 1703, James Webster, The Exact Conformity of the Principles & Practices of the Scots Non-conformiſts to the Apoſtolick Government of the Chriſtian Church, page 4: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, […]

### Adjective

premove (not comparable)
* Before a move.
** 1971, United States. Army. Military Traffic Management Command, Personal property traffic management regulation (issue 10, page 16)
    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 nearest agent facility.
** 1975 October 1, “Planning Helps DP Center Move 10 Miles in Two Days”, in Computerworld, volume 9, number 40, page 27:A significant portion of the planning process was dedicated to premove testing, such as testing the new facility's air-conditioning capacity.
** 1999, Wes McGregor, Danny Shiem-Shin Then, Facilities Management and the Business of Space, Edward Arnold Publishers, →ISBN, page 165: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 report, comparison with estimate and reconciliation, interim cost reports and final account.

### Related terms

* premovement

### References

* “premove, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* “premove, v.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* emprove