'Asynchronous' and 'turn-based' are not synonyms

[parzi42]

People used to call it "play by mail", but i think asynchronus is fitting. Its just normal people wouldn't know what it meant.

[SionedCati]

Introducing real-time Chess, where both players move at the same time!
You thought you were taking my queen, but it moved out of the way!

Or even better. Unexpectedly capturing the king!
They thought they were moving their king to safety, but it was intercepted!

Ha ha! This takes chess into a whole new dimension! Love it!

[SionedCati]

Sure, real-time chess is great, but have you ever played Spoons by snail mail? You mail a card to the next person on the list(the actual physical card; shipping is pretty cheap for a single playing card), and then, when someone gets a four of a kind, they write a letter announcing this fact to everyone on the list, and then it's their job to reply as quickly as possible. Then the person who went out first checks the postmarks from the other players, and the player with the latest postmark is out. It sounds awful, but it's a lot of fun, I promise.

This is a great idea!