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When i was growing up “correspondence chess” was a thing. Where you submitted your next move to your opponent over snail mail. Even back then I thought this
by kenjackson 10mo ago
When i was growing up “correspondence chess” was a thing. Where you submitted your next move to your opponent over snail mail. Even back then I thought this was too slow for me, but I later understood that people would play many different game simultaneously.
- kqr 10mo agoIt's still a thing and they even have world championships in it. Everyone always draws because it's basically just Stockfish vs. Stockfish. (Okay in the most recent one there were actually a shared first place, a shared second place, and one person in third place. The latter died during the tournament, and whether the others ended up in first or second place depended on whether they had drawn with third place before he died or if they won on time.)
- eterm 10mo agoThat sounds like satire but is actually true: It appears that in the latest championship, a full 10 players shared first place, because one person died: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=100104 https://www.iccf.com/event?id=100104 All other games were drawn. What a rather unserious organisation.
- anthk 10mo agoIs Freechess.org safe from Stockfish/Gnuchess and the like?
- oneeyedpigeon 10mo agolichess.org still calls a casual remote game 'correspondence'. My partner and I often play from either end of the same sofa :)