We should make chess divisions and ranking on this site plus tournaments. Title holders I know chess is suppose to be a tactic plus mostly mental game but we should aleast have a champion on the site and I know I am new.

Not sure how you would make that work. For tournaments, one needs to get lots of CC games going, that has been a problem before.

Why?

You realize this is a discussion site, not a playing site, don't you? We really don't play here much, except for a few people here and there playing correspondence games by typing out the moves. There's no interface for playing.

--Fromper

Ah.

There's no interface for playing, yet. Mark's been absent for a while, but he stated before he'd look into this.

I never quite understood why people don't like playing correspondence as much as playing chess over internet in real-time and otb.

I like playing correspondence. But with all the playing sites out there that have a correspondence interface where you can see the board position instead of having to use your own board to keep track of the game, I don't see why anyone would emailed back and forth moves these days. Just play at chess.com or queenalice.com for free if you want to play correspondence.

--Fromper

Perhaps we could play on one of the correspondence chess servers.

To be honest, I don't see much point in correspondence with a board. Sort of defeats the need for correspondence. Oh well, people will like what they will.

When I play correspondence, it's usually over Windows Live Messenger, typing out the moves in conversation.

You always play correspondence as "blindfolded"?

The point to correspondence, IMHO, is that you can take as much time as you need to think about every move. Also, you can play out the variations on a board when analyzing, so you should cut down on blunders.

Even if I were typing out the moves, I'd set up the position on a board to look at it. But having the board already set up on the computer makes it easier. You just log on, check to see what move your opponent made, then think about the position in front of you for a day or two to come up with the best reply.

--Fromper

No, I don't. I grab a real live board, put it on a table; the dinner table is my favourite, and I'll usually work out moves when I'm having my meals. I agree you should put as much time into it as you need to think it through. And I always do.

I like doing this on my cheapo wooden board with ditto pieces instead of on my computer or laptop. I've tried CC while using winboard, didn't agree with me. Because I'm very much used to make fairly quick moves, and somehow my brain associates the computer display of the chessboard with time-controlled chess.
In CC I'll not make a move unless I have concluded with proper research(!) that it is the best move I can make and I can only do that with a real set.

You're right that having the position on the board makes things easier, but using common sense, I don't play more correspondence games simultaneously than I have hands (two). I have two other chessboards besides my wooden one, a fairly small glass set and a tiny travel set. I have both set up on the 'bar' separating the kitchen from the living room; if I'm playing two CC games, I leave both up to display the last known position.
Might sound like a hassle, but I really like it this way as it works for me