07 Mar '19 06:43>
For many years I've been reading occasional suggestions in chess publicans and even on this site that correspondence chess is somehow an inferior chess format, sorry, but I object to this. Time control and access chess literature is allowed in CC, but I think correspondence players work just as hard, and accomplish just as much as their OTB counterparts. In addition, I've found the additional time to analyze the positions deeper can make one a stronger player, which is why my OTB rating was roughly the same as my CC rating. This will no doubt be a subject of debate for many years to come, but I just cannot convince myself that because one travels to an OTB event and plays with shorter time controls that this somehow qualifies as a superior brand of chess.