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Debate: What to call "Online Chess"...


  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1161

    winerkleiner

    Ziryab wrote:
    winerkleiner wrote:

    In chess history!

    The debates between those who think Fischer was the greatest player in history, the advocates of Kasparov, and the few who actually comprehend the powers of Alekhine has been are far larger debate in numbers of participants, quantity of views, and qualitative differences between the responses.

    I know, I just wanted the debate here to keep going, I'm a troll.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1162

    Sooner

    Re: Comment #1200. Whether the biggest or not, certainly the most inane.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1163

    artfizz

    CUL8R (See You Later) Chess

    Sooner or Later Chess

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1164

    zborg

    Ziryab wrote:

    Yesterday, I was introduced to another chess player by a mutual friend in a bar that she owns. In talking about the sort of chess that he plays online, we hit upon "slow chess" as a clear description of a game with three days per move. The conversation ran into no roadblocks. He had heard of chess.com, but plays correspondence chess elsewhere.

    Similar conversations in the past always run up against confusion when the term "online chess" is used to name correspondence chess played through a server or website. 

    About every 200 posts there is a breath of sanity in this thread.  Thank you.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1165

    zborg

    Ziryab wrote:
    DrSpudnik wrote:

    Almost 1200 posts! This must be the biggest mass debate in history!

    There's very little debate, however. The debates between the followers of Trotsky and of Stalin were real debates, and involved many thousands of people.

    As history, what happens here is insigificant. 

    Indeed.  But mostly these debates were about "One Step Forward and Two Steps Back."  They are still fighting over that cadaver, and what he said.

    A fair number of Trots remain in France, and even NYC.  The new French President, Hollande, apparently had some connections too.

    On balance, however, Stalin's thugs kinda got the better of them.

    An interesting article in the Washinton Post, from about a month ago, details the genealogy of one of the Officials from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

    Turns out this official (a woman) is Trotsky's grandaughter.  The article also talks about his grandson.  Another big success story.  Very bright family, all around. 

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1166

    chess_kebabs

    lol Mother-in-law.. some of those were very funny.. Laughing

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1167

    artfizz

    Vacation Chess.

    (This name would encourage players to take vacations - who might not otherwise do so!)

    The only anomaly is when you play non-vacation vacation chess (i.e. in a non-vacation tournament).

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1168

    Ziryab

    More vacation time would be nice because the free Wi-fi in hotels is often spotty.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1169

    DrSpudnik

    Ziryab wrote:
    winerkleiner wrote:

    In chess history!

    The debates between those who think Fischer was the greatest player in history, the advocates of Kasparov, and the few who actually comprehend the powers of Alekhine has been are far larger debate in numbers of participants, quantity of views, and qualitative differences between the responses.

    Not a mass debate?! I should know a mass debate when I see one! I have experience with mass debating for decades, and I must attest that this has all the elements of a mass debate! This is nothing BUT mass debating!

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1170

    motherinlaw

    chess_kebabs wrote:

    lol Mother-in-law.. some of those were very funny.. 

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  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1171

    motherinlaw

    P.S.  Erik, message me privately with your offers re $ per slogan.  I'm open to (reasonable) negotiations. Wink Money mouth  Sincerely, MIL

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1172

    chess_kebabs

    motherinlaw wrote:

    P.S.  Erik, message me privately with your offers re $ per slogan.  I'm open to (reasonable) negotiations.    Sincerely, MIL

    I'm sure Erik has messaged you by now MIL with an offer too good to refuse!!

    If you haven't Erik, WHY NOT!!!! Surprised

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1173

    chess_kebabs

    Was trying to pick a favourite MIL, but it's too hard...

    Will keep trying... 

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1174

    winerkleiner

    Stop the presses Erik, I got the name to sum up this thread and to end this debate, just call it "Debate Chess"

    T-shirt me.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1175

    topman75

    how about chess extended time or chess XT for short kind of catchy.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1176

    ChazR

    Call it "On-Line Chess."

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1177

    winerkleiner

    Cosmic Chess (out of this universe)

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1178

    ChazR

    I have got it:  Call it hose-line chess, no, no, that's not it...call it clothes line chess for all the laundry you failed to do while making a move.  What's better?  "Toe-the-line" chess?  Lacks feeling.  How about "What's your sign" chess as kind of a retro-appreciation to disco?  That's just silly.  "Malign Chess;" "I'm fine Chess;" "Refine Chess;" "Sublime Chess."  I am still not sure.  Tough one! 

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1179

    ChazR

    This is such a troubling queston, I could not go to sleep.  Instead, I watched all of the Harry Potter movies and there, I found the answer.   It should be called "Chess of which we do not speak (ever again, I hope).

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #1180

    chess_kebabs

     lol Jerome.. I'd  be willing to play chess in any universe.. Laughing


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