chess for the lethargic

You got that right, Hari! This thread became a verbal analogue to the carnival house of mirrors long ago and, like Boris Karloff's "The Mummy," continues ever to make its slow, laborious, senseless, but ineluctable way onward, dragging one leg along behind it all the while.

CHECK CHESS! You have to CHECK in daily to CHECK on the progress of your game, to see if your opponent worked his way out of CHECK and is only a couple of moves from putting you in CHECK mate.

Your authority?

For anyone this may apply to:

There is the bona fide condition of Histrionic Personality Disorder (section 301.50 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychological Association (DSM-IV). 

This disorder is characterized by an excessive attention seeking behavior where the person is uncomfortable in situations when he/she/it is not the center of attention.  The person consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention and also uses seductive or sexually provocative behavior inappropriately and prematurely believes relationships are intimate.  The style of speech is impressionistic, lacks detail, and show a theatrical (drama-queen/king) exaggerated expression of emotion.  Such a person displays shifting and shallow emotions and is easily suggestible and influenced by others or circumstances.  The prognosis is guarded in the case of this disorder, due mostly to the person’s lack of insight and awareness into themselves.  This is compounded by the person’s failure to face reality and recognize they are just not so special or important.

In other words, opinions are like belly-buttons, everyone has one.  The oppressive need of one person to be the best is rather childish.

This sounds exactly like one of the chess.com members.

Sorry guys---you misconstrued the (mildly misquoted) cookbook (DSM) definition of Histrionic Personality Disorder.   I don't know what person you're talking about, but I'm jumping in because as a psychologist, I hate seeing pseudo-psychological info being disseminated.  Someone with HPD doesn't need to be "the best" or be "right" ----With HPD, the need is to be "noticed," to be looked at, listened to, sought out by others to be given more attention. The key is in the first sentence: "excessive attention-seeking behavior."  That's it. The only additional inference we can add is that the person does not like "being ignored."

One more caution: as with all personality categories, there's a broad spectrum of intensity in the characteristics.  You've quoted a "Disorder," which indicates a pathological degree of symptamotology.  A "Histionic Personality TYPE" is just a normal variant of all the many "types" of homo sapiens you run into every day---on the street----or on a site for "Interwebs Electrochess."  (sorry, couldn't resist.)  

snooker chess

And the relevance of your comment to the issue of a suitable new name for "online chess" or "turn-based chess" would be what?

A very praiseworthy comment, motherinlaw. I commend you for it even though I do not possess the technical expertise upon which to base my praise of it. However, it was an intellectually well-balanced, sensible, thoughtfully nuanced statement. That much I can tell as a layman. It was a refreshing counterweight to ChazR's comment. And, as for relevance to the topic at hand, you covered that by offering your own suggestion for a new name, although it's not one I would ever choose. YUK! Would one have to don a Flash Gordon suit to play a game with a name like that?

"OMG!!  Sooner, Did you just call my comment Irrelevant??!!!" .....(as a true histrionic would reply).....  "I Can TOtally NOT BELIEVE You Just DID That!!!"

  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

My question is are they going to ever change it?  They had that pole a while ago and Correspondance Chess won by quite a large margin, if my memory serves me well.

Correspondence Chess climbed that pole like a pro.

To capture the war-like nature of the game:

1. online chess -> siege chess

2. live chess -> skirmish chess

Blitz, of course, comes from the fast-paced war tactic called blitzkrieg. It seems to be a fairly popular way of naming chess related stuff.

When does the voting for the name end?

i agree with Daily Chess

Now try to calm down, motherinlaw. There must have been a little misunderstanding. I'm sure it was my fault, not yours. We will get you one of your anxiety pills and take you to have a little visit with your psychologist about it, and everything will be aaaaaall right, I'm sure. Okay? That's a goooood girl. LOL!

I am voting on, "Daily Chess", as well.  Sounds good, to the point, and it is a daily event for most of us, who signs on to make a move or two.  Day Chess is an option, even though it doesn't sound as smooth as "daily chess". 

"Daily Chess" sounds like a newspaper. Very mundane name. Quite in the mainstream of the banal. Really ho-hum.

Having a fit of histrionic personality disorder, ChazR? Although, I understand the book you quoted to use as a means of insulting some unnamed person instead of as a serious reference work of an academic discipline for a legitimate purpose refers to speech in association with the personality disorder you cited, perhaps it could refer to ones style of expressing mirth, as well? If so, I think your laughing while rolling around on the floor would fit the bill perfectly.