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Welcome
The E4 Emailchess Club provides server based correspondence chess games and tournaments via email. Human players play against each other here and their games are refereed and recorded by the chess server. We do not play against computers in this club.
While you can play only one game at a time using an online chess server, or play one game over the board, in correspondence chess
players can play many games simultaneously. Some of them may last several weeks or months. You do not need not to sit in front of your computer at the same time as your opponent because moves are delivered in email messages and you have days of thinking time for each move.
Use of computer or other help for generating, verifying moves is forbidden here. See more about this on the Help? page.
The club is open to anyone who has an email address and follows the club Regulations.
Membership and all activity in the club are free, and also free from any advertising and business dealings.
Registered players can use all the services of the club. This means they can...
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Play many rated and friendly games
simultaneously.
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Challenge each other or can they request rating based pairing.
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Enter chess tournaments.
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Choose time controls, such as the 10/30, or the 5+1 system, or can play without time controls.
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Play traditional and Fischer Random Chess games.
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Submit or solve chess problems.
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Send and receive messages between players and discussion lists. Messages can be sent alongside moves as is common in traditional correspondence chess, or separately.
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Start new games from predefined setups, use predefined openings, middle games or endings.
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Use the traditional PGN format to send and receive moves, a simple text format, or a graphical format.
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Use different forms of chess notation, and conditional moves too.
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Study analysis sent in by other players and can share their knowledge with others by writing analysis.
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Can join existing teams or can create new teams.
Using our chess server means that...
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Players need not be online at the same time, because they get their opponents' moves, challenges, messages by email.
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Web access is not required, and there is no need to log in anywhere.
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It's easy to find opponents, players can challenge each others, or can request pairing, where players with similar playing strength are paired together. Pairing parameters are customizable.
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You can play many new games by entering for tournaments. You can enter tournaments after you have completed 5 games.
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Game play is safe, because the server verifies each move, takes care of used up and remaining playing time, and records
everything in logs.
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You cannot play invalid moves as the chess server checks that all moves are in accordance with the laws of chess.
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Privacy is taken seriously, email addresses are not given out, there is no virus danger here.
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Time controls protect players from endless thinking, but give enough time, usually days, to play when they have free time.
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You can register several email addresses so that you can play from the office and then from home too.
Our server is constantly being improved, the following facilities are currently being developed...
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Some more tournaments needed, such as Swiss, KO and other events, Club Championships.
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Playing in team tournaments.
Unlike traditional correspondence chess, moves are not sent directly to the opponents, but to the chess server. The server verifies each move, records them in logs, calculates used up time, sends a message to the opponent, sends a confirmation to the moving player, and at the end of the game recalculates the ratings and rankings.
A wide range of notations is supported when sending in moves. Either the well known standard algebratic notation (Bxb7+), the long algebratic notation (Bc6xb7+), the coordinate notation (c6b7) and the correspondence notation (3627). A complete PGN text can also be used to send and receive moves.
Players can identify each other by nicknames. Nicknames are chosen during the registration and can't be modified later.
The chess server computes the rating of all players according to their finished rated games. It uses the Elo system supplemented with the Glicko method.
All chess friends, young and old, and of any level, are welcome in the club.
Enjoy your chess,
Andras Galos
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Pronouncing E4EC
E4EC is pronounced as: e-four-e-cee.
It's a pun too, sounds also like 'e4 easy'
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It's true that emailchess is not the easiest way to play chess, but after a short learning period you can catch the server's logic, and 'e4 easy' becomes true.
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Link to E4EC
Yes, we'd appreciate it if you want to link to e4ec.org from your own website.
You can use this graphic and link if you want to create a graphical link...
http://www.e4ec.org/
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Frank Lapham(frank1220) wrote this notice on Aug 21, 2007:
I just joined your club after being with another glub for 10 years. I need a 1 game match so how do I get started. If I'm white my opening move is 1.d4
GYULAI GYULA wrote this notice on May 12, 2006:
UZENET OLTEAN GUSZTINAK:
Lehet hogy 30 ev utan ujra beszelhetunk ??!!!!!!!!!!
Guszti ime a cimem GYULAI@COGECO.CA
oadi wrote this notice on Mar 22, 2006:
IECC-95 vs E4EC1
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP COVERAGE
here:
www.e4ec.org/IECC-95-E4EC-1/english/
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The Kuruksetra battle
When the morning of that day has dawned, the two parties faced each other in arms.
The warriors stood in four rows: kings and princes in front on shining charriots, in jewelry and gold-adorned armors, with glistening weapons. Battle flags swung on high poles of each chariots, they will recognize each others and the enemy in the deepest bustle of the battle.
The cavarly formed the second line. They were ready on light and quick horses, to support the charriots.
Huge elephants like mountains stood in the third line, armored frameworks on their back, fullfilled with archers and lancers: when the charriots and chavarly disarranged the enemy, they will roll like rocks over them.
The infantry formed the fourth line behind the elephants, with shields and swords, to settle the battle with their bulk. (from the Mahabharata)
Position of the chess pieces is similar to the above:
Infantry: the pawns
Charriots: the rooks
Chavarly: the knights
Elephants: the bishops (on sematical illustrations in the Middle Ages they were similar to the fools hat: the name of this piece is fou in Franche, which means fool, and Laufer in German which means something like bishop)
The queen is a minister of the king in the easter chess, fersan in Persian, and mudabbi in Arabic.
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No Viruses Here
By default, club members do not know each other's email addresses, and all email comes from our server, so no virus can spread among our players.
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