> The only function that IMHO currently lacks to CC support is
> some automatic timekeeping/timestamping. (...)
I am not sure whether investing much effort here makes sense, email
chess seems doomed to die in a few years. ICCF already abandoned it,
IECG is migrating to server-based play (and already having most events
on the server), so only IECC remains notable place here (and survives
decline in popularity as a whole). { funny thing is that IECC is
forcing people to use web forms for communication and trn registration
due to the spam problems }
Simply, server-based play is significantly easier, and main reasons
for email play (scenario of player on the modem who downloads his email
and process it asynchronously - and so) disappear...
And those who remained may use ECTool, which supports email chess
fairly well.
> Do we have someone on the list that actually plays more
> seriously by email and could give me a helping hand about
> what is needed in that area? (...)
Download ECTool and see what it is doing ;-) ECTool works
perfectly under wine, I played all my IECC games using it
and never had any problems or complaints.
> In checking out scids "old" code I also found that both ways
> of handling email are a bit complementary in the sense that
> e.g. IECG and IECC (the only sites I checked out a bit) only
> allow for a very rudimentary pgn to be sent. Mainly they do
> not allow for additional metadata within the header or
> commentary code within the body. (...)
I doubt anybody cares much about it when move emails are
considered. Some cleanup is needed mostly while submitting the
game score,
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