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Subject: Re: 2 man E-mail chess- good idea

Author: Alvaro Rodriguez

Date: 03:49:25 04/21/00

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On April 20, 2000 at 19:44:34, Pete Galati wrote:

>On April 20, 2000 at 18:40:17, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote:
>
>>On April 20, 2000 at 16:11:38, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On April 20, 2000 at 15:42:40, Morris Kammann wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm just starting e-mail chess. Have no interest in tourneys, playing with
>>>>anybody else or what have you. Does any one know of a simple program that would
>>>>give a changeable diagram that can be sent back and forth? Sort of like the old
>>>>snail mail sheets and rubber stamps...but updated for computers. Appreciate any
>>>>ideas anybody might  have. Thanks
>>>
>>>I just email the entire pgn file of the games, it's called postcard.pgn because
>>>that's how _these_ games originally started (actually, those games have
>>>finished, we're on to newer games),  and the games come back to me as just the
>>>last few moves of the game, I then copy them out of the email, paste them into
>>>my pgn file, and I view the games in Winboard.  Then I edit my own moves in
>>>using Notepad.
>>>
>>>I've never understood people wanting a special program for email Chess.
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>I agree completly, I will never understand that kind of people..
>>By the way, I also think that the best thing to do is to replay the whole game
>>and then start thinking about your move instead of just pasting the pgn into
>>winboard.
>>Long time ago, I did like you said ,just pasting the moves in, and when I was
>>thinking about my move, I didn´t understood the position correctly..That´s why
>>maybe to replay the game is the best..
>>
>>Alvaro
>
>I like your idea better than what I do, because allthough Winboard does play
>through the game when you load it, I only give it a quick glance and don't pay
>much attention to it.  Usually I'm trying to get through it as fast as posible
>to get to the end position.
>
>I'll consider using your method.
>
>Pete

Ok, just remember me when you have won the world championship in postal chess
:-)

Alvaro



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