Friend who doesn't want to join???

Hi,

I have a friend who is a bit of a techno-phobe.  We play by email, and he sends me the position in standard notation.

Is there somewhere on this site (or some other site) where I can enter his moves and mine, and save them and come back to it later?  How to save it?  How to bring it up again?

Thanks,

Stefan

This forum is one place you could do it.

Thanks for the reply.

So what sub-forum to use?  How to do it so only I can add moves? (Both my own and my friend's moves.)

Stefan

you can download apps for 2 people play at... let's say... "real life" and you can enter his moves, look, I use the app "Chess Free" for Android, and you can save the moves to continue playing later

Thank you for the response.  I'm looking for something for my laptop, not phone...

Do you know of any program like that for windows?

You could get a database program.  ChessBase is really pricy, but Chess Assistant is only $50 and SCID is free.

I can't help saying it, but if your friend can handle email, there's no reason he can't handle an interface as simple as chess.com.  Hand-hold him through the registration process and show him how it works.  All he has to know is how to log on, how to get to your games (if he's only playing a game with you the link will be right in front of him when he logs in), and how to make a drag and drop chess move.  Booting up Windows, opening your browzer, and getting into a typical web email app is harder than that.

He just refuses on moral grounds, not practical ones.

Well, I downloaded SCID; but I can't figure it out.  All I want is a simple game where I can enter both players moves; but SCID seems way too complicated.  I'm starting to get frustrated.  I do wish my friend would just play on chess.com.  He joined chess.com a long time ago, didn't like it, and refuses to go back.  He said he "lost his password."  It's too bad, because I'd like to play with him.  He has the space for a board to leave up and make moves on, but I don't.  I just want to play on my laptop...oh well.  I may have to tell him we just can't play.

Chess King is pretty simple to use and the older versions are available in the $20 to $40 range.  Not free, but certainly cheap.

@StefanCreston:  Seems like you're doing handstands and cartwheels because he refuses to make a trivial concession.  I've had this sort of thing happen a time or two;  I won't fight with someone to play chess (or to do anything else) with me.  If someone is unreasonable, I won't banish them from my life, but I will stop the activity that's generating the friction. 

There are other free chess sites out there, but most aren't as well run.  You could play him there.

A real low tech solution would be to get one of those portable magnetic chess sets that fold up to be wallet sized and you can just carry it in your laptop case.  I think they go for about $10.  Here's an example one I found one on Amazon in about 30 seconds of searching, but there are many other models out there:

Good luck!

SCID vs. PC is good for recording games.

ok

Yes, moral grounds are rarely practical.