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== History ==

In the 1970s, one could play correspondence chess in a [[PLATO System]] program called 'chess3'. Several users used chess3 regularly; often a particular user would make several moves per day, sometimes with several games simultaneously in progress. In theory one could use chess3 to play a complete game of chess in one sitting, but chess3 was not usually used this way. PLATO was not connected to internetInternet predecessor [[ARPANET]] in any way that allowed mass use by the public, and consequently, chess3 was and still is relatively unknown to the public.

In the eighties, chess [[play-by-mail game|play by email]] was still fairly novel. Latency with email was less than with traditional [[correspondence chess]] via paper letters. Often one could complete a dozen moves in a week. As network technology improved, public, widespread use of a centralised server for live play became a possibility.