For the older players: do you remember this?

In the late 70s and early 80s there was something called "Cyber Chess."  You inserted a card into a viewer.  Each move you had up to 6 choices.  You deducted points if you made a mistake.  

Has there been anything (ie., electronic) like it since?

No, but I remember how good the magazine Chess Life was in the 70s.

 Sigh!  Yes, indeed.

sftac

It has been replaced by cyborg chess

Chess Life was indeed a great magazine back then.  I also used to enjoy Chess Digest - I loved Ken Smith's bombastic writing style.

I remember Inside Chess publication by Seirawan too and found it more useful than chess life. 

You old timers remember adjourned games ?  I am not sure which year they stopped having adjournments ?  

I remember something like what is described as Cyber Chess. I don't recall the name but I remember it pretended to be computerish, yet it only was a card with a viewing slot that you turned as you went through a game, and the different choices you made got you to a different part of the tree.

I saw it as a mail advert, so USCF members got it. Maybe 1979.

Yes, adjournments - they made either for very late nights or very short breaks before the next round.

I never was in an adjournment but I saw quite a few inbetween rounds.

One I haven't forgotten was between a prominent regional master and a 1600. It was a double rooks endgame with lots of pawns, mostly locked. I thought, Hmmm, maybe this guy can draw him. A stronger friend looked at it for a second and said Naw, Pupols will win it. Let's get something to eat.

Pupols did win it. I forget how lunch went.

A couple of things that i miss from back in the 70's and 80's were 2 Tournaments, The New york Open and Lone Pine i aways liked to read about those 2 Tourn. it just seems like chess was more fun back then.

I am 73 and I had an adjourned game and the player never came back as he was arrested and sent to prison. So who won this game?

Remember Radio Shack and all the computer gadget that they had? In my dinning room my 42 year old son has a computerized game plugged into a electrical socket. I had saved it in the attic. The pieces have magnets on the bottom of them. He is charging it so that he will be able to see how this thing works.

It has the Black bishop missing, so I took a magnet from a refrigerator magnet and I placed it on the board with a plastic part of a pen and it seems to work. Now we have a make believe bishop. Probably we will see it in action tomorrow.

The pieces are set up and you move them to the square it displays. You make a move and the square computer board thinks a little while and display the computer boards move. Of course you have to move the piece where it said it will go.

You cannot cheat as it feel the magnet where you placed it and sounds an error.

I also have many of the chess life magazines. I tried the new chess life and I let my subscription lapse because I don't care for the new one.

Back in the 1960 I think I was a "B" player. I don't know how this transfer to a rating now. If you know let me know. I was a "B" player and I would always attacked to see what the outcome would be. I didn't care if I lost because I could always start another game. But when I played in tournaments I was a stronger player than my rating.

I didn't try to be a hustler I just loved attacking no matter what. I don't know what I am now. I have only played about five games here on Chess.com in the year that I have been a member.

I teach beginners chess and like looking at games and analyzing them.

Oops. Sorry I chattered on about chess stuff.

Bye for now

If your opponent does not come back to the adjournment, you win. Their clock is started and they lose on time. The TD opens the envelope and makes the move at the appointed time. tick tick tick...

I still hate Radio Shak: cheap, flimsy gadgets that are pretty much worthless. I had a Chess Challenger that had little magnet squares that you would press start and then press to end a move. Eventually, the squares stopped pressing.   It fell for the same cheap trick every time anyhow. Once you figured out the Ruy or French or Nimzo trick, it would lose every time exactly the same way. And then, if you had an = endgame, it would start shoving a or h pawns.

by goldendog
beertopia United States

That does it. I'm calling for an Entmoot.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/adjudication

As a TD in the 80s I had to preside over sealed moves & adjournments. The height of "No Fun."

Do you recall the year in which adjournments were discontinued ? I only had 2 adjourned games in all my tourney experience. One was with IM Vince McCambridge in a tourney in TN ( I have forgotten the year , the tourney was the Fairfield Glade Open in Crossville )  and one in the city championship of Schweinfurt Germany ! I was very honored to be invited to play in that German city championship and believe I was the only American ever to play in it. It was my first experience in a closed RR event with no weak players... I scored +4 =4  - 1 to finish tied for 2/3 place. Memories....  Oh, both my adjourned games ended in draws. 

ah ! The way things were....

Chess was magical...fisher, t.v. chess, controversy, russians, great G.Ms , people arguing over chess moves----man what happen. How did i get so damn old, What happen to the magic ?

fisher, t.v. chess, controversy, russians, great G.Ms , people arguing over chess moves.......

I don't think they are discontinued officially. The  USCF allowed sudden death time controls, first after the primary time control was met, then as the primary time control. The rules for adjourned games are still in the rulebook, but at some point in the mid/late 80s, the use of sudden death primary time controls pretty much killed off the adjournment envelope.