AbigailII: I'm not in favor of a 'play forced move' button. In certain situations, when it didn't appear it would let a player who might not see a second move know that one is available.

Thad: But they can already find out now. Pieces that do not have a move available are not clickable (and hence will show a destination in the status bar when the mouse hoovers over it). And a piece that only has one available move already does that move when clicked.

AbigailII: but you don't know about the opponents pieces or if you have more that 2

Vikings: Well, all 'information' such a button (which would probably never materialize) would reveal is "you only have one move available', or, in its absence, 'you have more than one move available'. It's not going to reveal anything about opponents pieces, or whether you have more than two moves available.

Not that I think it harms the opponent to show a player the list of available moves. A determined player can already find out all moves he/she can play; first by hoovering over his/her pieces (to see which pieces can be moved), then by clicking all moveable pieces and see which fields are clickable (destination squares for the pieces).

AbigailII: I think Thad makes a good point.

For example, I was playing the Camelot recently - and all I seen was a forced jump that was bad for me - so as I moved my mouse to make the move, I noticed that I could also click on a knight to move it - which after a few jumps of my own pieces, was able to make a better move.

Now that is a rare thing for me to do - normally I would see only the 1 move and make it.

If the system was to make all "forced" moves right away, I would quickly learn that if the system did not make a move for me, then I MUST have multiple moves that I could make, and would help me in my games.

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Of course in "passing" situations where the person has 0 moves, I agree 100% that an autopass in those games would be very helpful.