Correspondence Chess
Correspondence chess is a variation of chess played between towns, chess clubs and/or individuals, in settings where the opponents are not situated face-to-face. Means of communicating moves include:
- couriers such as human runners or even homing pigeons
- (postal) coaches
- usual postal transmissions like trains and (later) airplanes
- electronic transmission such as e-mail and web servers/chess servers. http://www.iccf-webchess.com/
In the past, postal chess was the most common appearance of ICCF.
In most sports a player can only play regularly on an international basis when they are a national top-player. One of the charms of correspondence chess (whether playing the email or the postal version) is that players can play at an international level, even when they are starting to play this kind of a game for the first time.
Read more about this topic: International Correspondence Chess Federation
Famous quotes containing the word chess:
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)