Call it what it is, correspondence chess.
Debate: What to call "Online Chess"...
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Oct 3, 2013
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#1403
britesorb wrote:
Online chess is very misleading to newbies. I would estimate 90% of unrated players will abandon a game because they didn't realize it was correspondence interval
I know I did. I didn't understand it was a long-game until after I started playing it. What I wanted to play was "live chess," but I didn't know the terminology yet. Took a little trial and error to figure it out.
Presently, I call the Online games "turn-based" or "long games," a term I also use for the 90/30 time control--but that's just me. Not sure Chess.com would want to adopt those.
Oct 3, 2013
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#1404
Training Chess (TC) or Homework Chess (HC) since the purpose is really to train and improve your game through a slow and gradual process.
Hallowen Chess because it's bloody scary!!!!!!!!!!!
Oct 4, 2013
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#1406
BorgQueen wrote:
Well it has only been a year and a half!
Chess.com you are bloody HOPELESS with follow up.
Eric did not like the response: use the traditional term--correspondence chess.
Oh, give it a rest. online chess is fine.
Oct 4, 2013
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#1408
I talk about online chess all the time. Some of my online chess is blitz; some is slower "live" chess; some is correspondence.
Oct 4, 2013
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#1409
I'm on board, although I'm more likely to log on and play blitz after the bottle of brandy is empty. So, After Brandy, Standard, 960, After Dinner.
Oct 4, 2013
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#1410
Bardu wrote:
Call it what it is, correspondence chess.
I like your certainty. Call it what it IS, dammit!
I'm pretty certain "cyberchess" has been suggested Dozens of times and effectively dismissed each time, but you gotta admit it sounds cool.
(And by the way, I'm pretty sure Staff lost interest in this forum Decades ago ... and Rightly So ...
Me, I have an above average tolerance for nonsense, and naturally enjoy others who share this trait. Pity the Staff who's charged with monitoring forums in which I post. Sorry, guys, I feel your pain. 
)
"Across the great divide chess", Erik, please pay me in wine!
Oct 5, 2013
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#1412
Please forgive me if I'm about to beat a dead horse here but I'm not about to go through 72 pages to be sure..
I think it should be called..
Online Correspondence Chess OCC
cor·re·spond·ence
noun
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1.a close similarity, connection, or equivalence."there is a simple correspondence between the distance of a focused object from the eye and the size of its image on the retina"
synonyms: correlation, agreement, consistency, compatibility, consonance,conformity, similarity, resemblance, parallel, comparability, accord,concurrence, coincidence More -
2.communication by exchanging letters with someone."the organization engaged in detailed correspondence with local congressmen"Online chess is fine!
Oct 5, 2013
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#1414
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.
so what happened to the poll? :P
i'm obviously too lazy to check previous posts
Oct 5, 2013
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#1416
owltuna wrote:
I call it correspondence chess. When I call it "online" chess, I put the "online" in quotes, like I did just there, or capitalize both words - Online Chess - so it is obvious I am talking about the unique chess.com entity.
For the pedants: Just as the definition for "mail" has been updated to include electronic mail, correspondingly (see what I did there?) the definition for correspondence may be assumed to include electronic correspondence.
Ditto.
I did delete one paragraph becuase threads like the recent one concerning Game Explorer reveals endemic confusion concerning either the meaning of "online chess" or its nature. I continue to serve as a welcomer on another site that offers only corrspondence chess (they use that name), and I continue to observe that most of those who start a welcoming game with me never return after the moves made their first day. I suspect most are looking for some form of live chess.
This forum reminds me of the poem--"The Owl-Critic". Check it out.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-owl-critic/
Pinot Lisa. The evidence you cite above does not even come close to supporting your bogus accusations.
britesorb wrote:
Pinot Lisa. The evidence you cite above does not even come close to supporting your bogus accusations.
Wrong forum folks.
Online chess is very misleading to newbies. I would estimate 90% of unrated players will abandon a game because they didn't realize it was correspondence interval