Correspondence Chess
A form of chess in which moves are exchanged over an extended period, historically by postal mail and today largely by email or dedicated servers.
Because players have days rather than minutes per move, correspondence chess allows for extensive home analysis and, in officially sanctioned formats, has its own rating system separate from over-the-board play.
Etymology
Correspondence entered English in the early 15th century from Medieval Latin correspondentia, from correspondere, formed from com meaning together with and respondere meaning to answer; the sense of an exchange of letters grew from that. Correspondence chess is chess played by such an exchange, historically by post and later by email or dedicated servers. Wikipedia records one of the older documented postal games as played in 1804 by lieutenant-colonel F. W. von Mauvillon of the Dutch army in The Hague against one of his officers in Breda. The Glossary of chess carries correspondence chess as a headword. The name is descriptive rather than coined, and no first use of the phrase itself was confirmed in the sources fetched.
First documented: n.a. for the term; 1804 for one of the oldest documented postal games — Wikipedia, Correspondence chess (1804 game, von Mauvillon, The Hague-Breda)
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