André Thieme  <address.good.until.2009.may.11@justmail.de> wrote:
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| Rob Warnock schrieb:
| > André Thieme  <address.good.until.2009.may.11@justmail.de> wrote:
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| > | Just think about it. Why isn't chess played since thousands of years
| > | in the form of writing texts?
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| > 
| > Uh... It *has* been, André!! E.g.:
...
| >      1. P-K4        P-K4
| >      2. Kt-KB3      Kt-QB3
| >      3. B-B4        B-B4
...
| I think we all know that when people want to play chess they will get
| their board and pieces and enjoy.
| No normal chessplayer (so, not masters, grandmasters, ...) will take a
| pencil and paper and just begin. I admit that there are players who can 
| do this.
| But those don't even need this text interface. They can do it
| just acustically, by telling each other how they want to move.
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Hint: They might not be in the same room/city/country:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess

Correspondence chess is as old as the game itself.
It is played by rank amateurs as well as pros.
Correspondence players often have multiple games
going at once -- sometimes more than 100(!) --
which precludes keeping a physical board set up
continuously for each active game in progress.
The textual representation *is* "the game"; the
board, when used, is simply a transient aid to
visualization.


-Rob

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