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Telegraph chess: A 19th century tech marvel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/telegraph-chess
28•sohkamyung•6d ago

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kenjackson•4h ago
When i was growing up “correspondence chess” was a thing. Where you submitted your next move to your opponent over snail mail. Even back then I thought this was too slow for me, but I later understood that people would play many different game simultaneously.
b00ty4breakfast•2h ago
There were (maybe still are? I couldn't locate any active clubs with a cursory search) ham radio chess clubs that would play chess on-air over cw/radiotelegraphy.
qsort•1h ago
I got nerd sniped and tried to reconstruct the games. The notation is weird and they aren't using modern conventions (a1 is dark, queens on the d-file, kings on the e-file, white goes first.)

Also, as the article mentions there are a few errors. With a bit of deduction this is my best attempt at reconstructing the first one:

https://lichess.org/HzzfuyWv

In keeping with the theme of exciting new technology, I tried giving the problem to Opus 4.5 but it seems to hallucinate badly: https://claude.ai/share/299fb10e-8465-41b3-bad5-85500291ed67

gorgoiler•4m ago
”There are records of recreational and serious games played over radio, on telephone lines, satellite, … forums, and email.”

My father went to a boarding school. In defiance of his housemaster’s nightly curfew, he and his friends would play cross-dormitory chess using the hot water pipes as a medium for Morse code, tapped out on the radiators.

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Telegraph chess: A 19th century tech marvel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/telegraph-chess
28•sohkamyung•6d ago•4 comments

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