Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Strictly on a practical basis, playing chess over the Internet beats postal chess six ways from Sunday. I know very few people who play chess, so I have to get my fix over the Intertubes. Being part of the Internet Chess Club allows me to play speed-chess variants like Blitz, which is obviously not possible with postal play.
My pops was a postal chess addict. He had a portfolio-style cardboard album with several pages to allow for multiple play. Each square had a little slot to hold the pieces. Once he let the thing slip off the table and nearly lost the thread of some tense games.
I heard somewhere once that J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller played lengthy games by memory, calling out moves in chess notation at odd moments. That's about the lowest-tech form of chess I know.
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Acoustic chess versus digital chess?
Strictly on a practical basis, playing chess over the Internet beats postal chess six ways from Sunday. I know very few people who play chess, so I have to get my fix over the Intertubes. Being part of the Internet Chess Club allows me to play speed-chess variants like Blitz, which is obviously not possible with postal play.
My pops was a postal chess addict. He had a portfolio-style cardboard album with several pages to allow for multiple play. Each square had a little slot to hold the pieces. Once he let the thing slip off the table and nearly lost the thread of some tense games.
I heard somewhere once that J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller played lengthy games by memory, calling out moves in chess notation at odd moments. That's about the lowest-tech form of chess I know.
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