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Debate: What to call "Online Chess"...
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theriverman wrote:
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That's the one I posted...sad story.
Dangerous. Did someone sneak that surreptitiously into Cobain's music-collection ?
Leonard Cohen is the only one that ever made me feel like self-harming...
The Jam were always going to fight back, fortunately.
"Slow Speed"
Apr 2, 2012
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#349
Not sure I have the right to argue against change right now. ;) But I cannot think of an option more suiting than "Online Chess." Regular chess is played over a table. Correspondance Chess is played by mail (and suggests a sluggish pace.) Online chess is played over the Internet.
Apr 2, 2012
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#350
ignoble wrote:
Not sure I have the right to argue against change right now. ;) But I cannot think of an option more suiting than "Online Chess." Regular chess is played over a table. Correspondance Chess is played by mail (and suggests a sluggish pace.) Online chess is played over the Internet.
Don't forget though there is 'Live Chess' here, and there needs to be a name that distinguishes 'Correspondence Chess' games from 'Live Chess' games. 'Online Chess' doesn't, since both are played online. :)
"Slow Grind Chess"
"Tortoise Chess"
Apr 2, 2012
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#352
Rebrand Live Chess as Instant Chess (as in Instant Messaging) then (after the dust has settled,
rebrand Online Chess as Live Chess.
(Only slightly confusing initially).
whenever im discribing it to someone i always refer to it as correspondence chess, 90% of the time they know what im talking about i guess other options would be
multi-day chess
turn based chess
cor-chess
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Most are missing the point. Well thought out arguments for titles like Asynchronous Chess?
As a for-profit site you go for what sells best. McDonald's could sell you "Meal for young children with included toy" as an accurate title, but they went with Happy Meal instead. Seems to be working fine for them. My guess is few of you work in marketing.
Correspondence chess means nothing to a new chess player. This is a growing site (Or it was 
) and new players aren't going to know (or care) about tradition. Not to mention, there's no tradition in it anymore. The post office isn't used and it only slightly mirrors what it once was. It's not done through email either. Correspondence Chess is an outdated term for this way of playing it now imo. (Also the people on this thread represent only a small fraction of chess.com users. Most don't bother with every thread. So any choice that wins out here might very well lose if the masses voted.)
The argument that people can learn the traditional title fails since you can just as easily learn whatever new title they come up with. You seem to be doing fine with Online chess so far and haven't abandoned the site over it. :)
Abbreviations really don't solve the problem either. If you don't know what Online Chess means, then cChess isn't any better at all. (And wasn't eChess thrown out years back for being terrible sounding?)
So far I don't like any suggestions a lot. I'd be personally fine with Turn-based chess as that's what I've always called it. Correspondence chess is just too cumbersome imo. If history meant anything, we would probably be calling the Rooks pieces Elephants still. So for me history doesn't mean much. Also the way it's played today could expand and change so much in the near future that Correspondence would actually become an truly outdated term that doesn't fit well. Similar to the term "Answering Machine" which was replaced by "Voice Mail" because it fit better for the new technology.
Anytime Chess is nearly the same thing as Online Chess as far as why the change is being made, so I don't see how that's any better. Live Chess is Anytime Chess. Online Chess is Anytime Chess.
As far as accuracy is concerned any synonym of "delay" fits it best. Of course Delay Chess doesn't sound any good. And synonyms of delay aren't any better.
Perhaps an acronym might work better. Who doesn't like a good acronym?
Asynchronous Interval Delayed Server Chess
Though I'm starting to have a preference now for "Waiting forever for this guy to make a move, I mean we started an hour ago and are only on move three for freak's sakes...Chess."
Was that all just setup to make the AIDS Chess joke?
That's a big joke to remember...
Maybe I worded it wrong.
"Untimely Chess"