[Coco] (e)mail games

[kiddspott]

yes that was true Grandpa used to have an entire room dedicated to Ham radios and his three towers and he played chess over the radio with people as far back as the 50's & 60's from what I know of... ! LOL 
What a gaming evolution ... people to people chess to mail to radio then to BBS to email to virtual online gaming ... wonder if it is going on in text messenging, cell phones or something now? I guess I am Sooo far behind in these 'new fangled' gaming trends... 
 
 
Wait a minute... Do people even stop playing bejeweled and such to play chess any more?
 
Maybe we as a society have evolved beyond chess somehow ... 
 
ahhh the price of progress 

johnadonaldson at comcast.net wrote:
True chess players would just send their move to the other person. Each player
had a chess board setup and would then just make the move then make their
move and send the their move via email to the other player. This goes back to
the days of radio and snail mail. There is a chess club that uses Ham radio to
play chess this way. On the chess net on 40M, there may be a may as 6-8
games going on at the same time.

John Donaldson

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> John 
> 
> I remember at work myself and a few others played Chess via 
> email. The game was actually and Interleaf file that each player 
> edited and sent back to the other player. Yes we masked the title of 
> the file so that any email snoops would see it as a internal 
> specification document. 
> 
> james 
> 
> On 18 Oct 2005 at 13:27, johnadonaldson at comcast.net wrote: 
> 
> From: johnadonaldson at comcast.net 
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
> 
> Subject: Re: [Coco] (e)mail games 
> Date sent: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:27:37 +0000 
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> 
> 
> 
> > Chess has always been one that can be played by email or mail. 
> > 
> > John Donaldson 
> > 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > 
> > > I'm looking for a game that can be played by email, or regular mail. 
> > > Most of my friends still like +10000 Km from where I am, and this 
> > > would be a great way to interact with them I know they were very 
> > > popular at some point, but I've never seen one. It would be great if 
> > > it is for the CoCo, but any for a PC would do. Anything comes to 
> > > mind? 
> > > 
> > > Diego 
> > > 
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