Talk:Correspondence chess

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It would be nice to add to "ICCF World Champions" list years when tournament took place, e.g.: 2002-2004.

I agree, but unfortauntely don't have such dates to hand. If anybody does, that would be great. The dates we have right now seem to be a mix of start dates and end dates, which isn't very useful. --Camembert 15:37, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The ICCF now has full tournament tables and dates for each of the championship finals on their website (men, women), so I've updated our article to reflect the info there. --Camembert 15:07, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] annoying meta-discussion right on the page

I got confused, can anyone clean it up? Someone with a grudge against "engines" made it really confusing.

[edit] POV

The article says "It is a great shame for the promotion of correspondence chess generally". This needs to be reworded since it is POV. Bubba73 (talk), 04:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit

I did my best to clean up the mess left behind by whoever had the beef with chess engines; what's left, I leave to posterity. ;-) Make it better as you will. (Is there a source for the information on Keres, somebody we can quote about his playing CC because he couldn't find other opponents?) Cheers! Khamsin 22:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] links

  • Angelfire comparison -- these servers are old, minor and irrelevant;
  • FICGS -- one-month old chess server;
  • CorrespondenceChess.com -- nothing here;
  • eChess.org -- not a server and of no particular use;
  • itsyourturn.com -- not a server...;
  • chessontheweb.com -- there are 300 users on this site, and 3/4th of them are clones.

└ VodkaJazz / talk ┐ 07:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commentary on The Oxford Companion to Chess entry on correspondence chess

Tim Harding wrote an interesting column examining some details in The Oxford Companion to Chess entry on correspondence chess. I'm not very knowledgeable about correspondence chess and don't have time to incorporate anything from his column into this article right now, but I'm recording it here in case someone can make use of it: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz95.pdf. Quale 04:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)