It is one of the biggest platforms and this article helped me decide which one to choose. Nowadays we have a plethora of online chess platforms. Excuses me for telling tales from my rocking chair on the porch. When lucky, an exchange of one (1) move for black and white only took two or three days.Īnyway.

However, back then we considered it blazingly fast, because the alternative was writing your move by hand on a postcard, post it somewhere in a mailbox to have it send to your opponent. Then you made your move, exported the newly created file to your mailing program and emailed it back. You had to load that text into a chess program you picked up somewhere from a BBS (Bulletin Board System, remember those?) and analyzed the move. The last time I played, you exchanged email addresses with fellow chess playing fanatics and send each other daily mails containing the moves you wanted to make in plain text format.

After a hiatus of around 25 years I recently picked up the habit of playing chess again.

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