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

Possibly a miss- understanding exists ...turns may  be made immediately, fast as u like. Game  could be over in minutes if both players move quickly .Especially so if blunders like mine are made!

Makes sense to me.  We're chess players -- and we're supposed to be smart.  "Online Chess" is what chess.com wants to call it -- and eventually, we've all figured it out.  Just leave it alone and enjoy.  It's 'online' vs. 'live'.

I liked Chess Unlimited --- then found chess.com already has a group with that name --- how 'bout "Chess Without Borders?"  --- nah, Médicins Sans Frontières would probably sue....

 "Virtual Chess?"

"Instant Access Chess?"

"Benign Addiction Chess?"

 "Long Distance Chess"  

"Optional With Regard to Human Interaction Chess"

"Propinquity-Avoidant Chess"

"Annonymous Chess Encounters,"

"Safe, Risk-Free In Terms of Potential Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Infections Chess"  

"Avatars  Chess"

"Disguise Your Identity Chess"

"Create Your Own Personna Chess"

"Invisible Opponent Chess"

 "Play in Privacy, Curse When You Feel Like It Chess,"

 "Antisocial" or "Asocial Chess,"

"When You're Not in the Mood to Get Dressed Chess" (aka: "Clothing-Optional Chess") 

"Simultaneous Multiple Games Chess"

"One to One Hundred Onging Games!" Chess

"Move Whenever You Feel Like It, Within Reason, Chess"

"Convenient, Anytime Chess"

"Intermittant, Unpredictable, Optional Variable Time Limits, Wave Transmission Chess"

"Flex-Time Chess"

"Your Choice Chess"

"Choose Chess!" (double meaning!  Get it?! )

P.S. Mostly these are really more sales slogans than name change ideas.  Feel free to use them, Erik --- No Charge!  

I like how this motherinlaw thinks, which is rare for most people.  And correction: you should charge Erik!

Miss- understanding referred to in  above post 1189 may be due in part to details ; layout stating  Time"1 move "in each of time periods  chosen

whereas Time "Minimum 1 move " ..would be the better  injunction, I feel  .

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. 

Oh for goodchess sake!

Nope, the bar had no sake. It is a wine bar representing two local wineries. This weekend, due to Mother's Day and the one-year anniversary of the wine bar's opening, marks the official release on one winery's 2007 Bordeaux blend and the other's 2009 Merlot. Last night, they had live music as they do every Friday. Our friend, Maxie Ray Mills was playing with three fellow musicians.

You're too young to drink sake from what I can tell.

"Hesitation Chess" might have been mentioned already.

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

In chess 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. 

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.

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

CUL8R (See You Later) Chess

Sooner or Later Chess

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

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. 

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