10 November 2000 Initial public announcement. My system is designed to allow folks that already know each other to get together and play. If you're looking for tournament-style play, perhaps you should check out his site. A real-time game requires players to be logged in at the same time and to be using the same software. A turn-based system allows players to move whenever they can, and notifies opponents by email that it is their turn.
Games can last for eons, potentially.
I'd drink a coffee and spend a couple of hours chatting. Now, I'd like to still play chess with these kids but we don't have the couple of hours or the coffee. While a web program can't make a decent cafe solo, it can help out in allowing us to play. The 'j' at the beginning is closest to the English 'h' sound. As a historical note, the spanish 'j' used to be prounced more like 'zh', making the pronunciation perhaps more intelligible to the rest of the world.