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Feature request: automatically play forced moves

If I am in a correspondence game and there's a situation where I have exactly one legal move, lichess should make this move for me automatically, without having to keep my opponent waiting for me to log on and play the move.

I suppose some people might not like this if they're going on vacation or something and don't want the game to progress rapidly (in that case, saving time could be a disadvantage), so it could be an opt-in feature, like the one to automatically pick a queen on a premove promotion.
Even if someone only has one legal move, they are still entitled to use the time to think about upcoming moves.

Now conditional moves exist, which could speed up the play in various situations.
Sounds like a nice opt-in feature that should be fairly easy to implement.

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