sms chess

hi,
i have come up with this (supposedly) new idea. sms chess! well, from the good old days people seperated by distance play chess by keeping a board at their ends and by mailing their next move to their opponent.. this way, the game is looong... But, i propose a similar style play. so, if you want to play chess with me, we swap our numbers and decide on who gets which color. then we setup a board in our room. now we propose our move as a sms and thus the game continues!... Now, the advantage here is that, the game is played as a continuous process rather than to spend a full hour or more on it... It is fun and it is different.

one might argue that such a thing can be done in chat... but the idea is to make a move as and when you get time and not to sit in front of anything for a long time. no, time boundaries.

by the way, this way of playing chess is what is used by processes in a distributed environment to maintain data consistency when sharing and distributing data... each location has a copy and as a change is made, the state at the other end(s) is modified so that state is consistent at both the places.