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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