It all stays on the server, but is visible on your screen because information was sent to you. I sorta think that's what you said.

Well, my moves originate with me, it doesn't get to the server until I enter it into my computer and submit it, and even then it still has to make it's way to my opponent's computer, who may or may not be present to see it.

If that's not correspondence, I don't know what is.

The term Simul has an entirely different meaning in chess, although it has some bearing in correspondence because most players are indeed conducting their own little simuls against opponents who each have their own simuls against others who have theirs, and on until every single chess player in the world is absorbed into a single event.

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Mine is actually literal-minded as well.

Correspondence Chess - Wikipedia

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon.

All qualify as correspondence....

TheGrobe's conceptual approach is much more reasonable and realistic than chessplayer11's literal-minded approach is. The difference is just more evidence that the name should obviously be "correspondence chess." But let's skip the gimmiky "echess." The venerable game of chess should be accorded more dignity by those who are devoted to it.

I think Erik meant all online chess is online chess.. e.g. Live chess is also played online.. hence the term 'online chess' won't differentiate between correspondence chess (ding!) and live chess. 

I think TheGrobe's approach to the naming issue is conceptual, not literal, because his emphasis is on the concept of two distant chess players playing a game of chess by long-distance transmissions of their moves regardless of the literal means of the transmission. That means that the term "correspondence chess" can reasonably and understandably with historical continuity be used to designate any of them and is thus the best name. That's very different from chessplayer11's idea that, somehow, the literal means of transmission requires a different name for each one. His thinking is therefore not very sophisticated or flexible, to put the best face on it.

I said this when they first asked this question when the site began, and I'll say it again.  Correspondence Chess the the correct name for what they call "Online Chess".  

Absolutely correct! Now if only Erik would just listen to us!

It's wonderful when someone cites Wikipedia as a source in an argument when some of the participants in the argument may well have written that part of the Wikipedia entry. Although not certain without delving deep into the edit history, I sorta recall writing that very sentence.

If you have a smart phone it's a great way to win bar bets.

Can you edit Wikipedia entries with a smart phone?

I'm sure you could.

I won an argument once by altering a Wikipedia entry while my adversary was in the toilet.

Now that would be ironic! Doesnt't necessarily make the point of the idea any less valid though...

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