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Post by allanorn on Jan 5, 2023 20:58:42 GMT
Playing games via the post isn't new. Correspondence chess is the classic and still playable today. Another popular play-by-mail game is Diplomacy. They were more popular in the 1970s and 1980s as computing power was able to assist with sorting out what happened each turn. Our esteemed administrator sent a link on Discord to Adventure By Mail, and I picked up a couple that fancied my interest. But I found this blog post interesting as the game doesn't exist (yet!), but of course I could be persuaded to attempt to play a game if one started up. Has anyone tried a play-by-mail game? Has anyone completed a play-by-mail game?
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Post by Mia on Jan 11, 2023 23:19:35 GMT
I'm having another look at Adventure By Mail. I may treat myself with one or two of them.
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Post by Mia on Mar 11, 2024 13:07:38 GMT
I still haven't treated myself to any of the games. I'm not sure I'd have any room in many of my letters for it.
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Post by allanorn on Mar 13, 2024 16:00:13 GMT
I still haven't treated myself to any of the games. I'm not sure I'd have any room in many of my letters for it. I still have the ones I purchased. For me, it's about the time investment. I could probably do it now - but I would need someone willing to exchange letters this way and time to think about my responses. I would need to work on the part of my brain that handles creative writing a little before I could write letters in that way. On second thought, maybe doing a journal-based game first would get the creative juices flowing. I think it would be easier to do if I had about half as many correspondents as I do today.
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Post by although on Mar 14, 2024 12:58:21 GMT
motsamicaux and I had a PBM chess game going for a while. It lasted maybe a year. I was losing by a significant margin when we finally gave up
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Post by allanorn on Mar 14, 2024 17:13:47 GMT
motsamicaux and I had a PBM chess game going for a while. It lasted maybe a year. I was losing by a significant margin when we finally gave up I bought a couple of books on correspondence chess - one "how to get started", and the other is a history of games played and the US correspondence chess associations. I'll probably donate them to the local chess club unless someone wants them.
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