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Exeter Chess Club - http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/
Advice and discussions of opening strategy, sorted by chess rating relevance. |
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GameKnot Chess - http://gameknot.com/
Online chess community. Online play, tournaments, chess league, and thematic mini-tournaments. |
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ChessGames.com - http://www.chessgames.com
Free, searchable chess game database and community. |
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Chess Lab - http://www.chesslab.com
Play Chess real-time online. No downloads needed. Search and analyse over 2 million chess games in current database. Does not behave well on Macintosh, particularly with System 9+ and not at all with IE. |
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InstantChess.com - Play chess online - http://www.instantchess.com
The computer automatically pairs you up with an opponent from around the world. No registration is required. |
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GrandMaster Chess - http://www.gmchess.com/
Grandmaster site of 1999 FIDE World Chapmpion Alexander Khalifman and other top Grandmasters. Instruction, news, links, gamebase, and puzzles. |
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Play against tkChess - http://pine.cs.yale.edu/cgi-bin/cp
Play chess against a computer at Yale. |
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The London Chess Center - http://www.chesscenter.com
Home base for two British publications, The Week In Chess (TWIC) and Chess Monthly. Downloadable games to study and move-by-move analysis of live events. |
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Chess.net - http://www.chess.net
Free site with for-pay premium services. Requires client which can be downloaded (Windows only) or play with Java client in browser. (Does not appear to work on Macintosh.) |
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Red Hot Pawn - http://www.redhotpawn.com/
Online correspondence chess played against friends or other members. Includes community forum and email notification of moves. |
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MindZine - Chess News - http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/chess/chess.html
Chess news and articles from all around the world by Mind Sports Worldwide. News, features, polls, updated roundups of other chess Web site contents. |
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Chess Hounds - http://chesshounds.com/
Offers gameplay, message board, and chat. |
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Queen Alice Internet Chess Club - http://www.queenalice.com/
Community of correspondence chess players of all levels and ages. Only a web browser is required to play. |
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ChessWorld.net - http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessclubs/asplogin.asp
Web based play-by-email server. Features include tournaments, leagues, forums, voting, and annotated games. |
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ChessAnyTime.com - http://www.chessanytime.com/
Free online chess game played against live opponents. Includes top 100 players list. |
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ChessHere.com - http://www.chesshere.com/
Browser based online chess with database, forums and links. |
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Net-Chess - http://www.net-chess.com
Host server for correspondence games and sets of related matches. Email notification, ratings, user-selectable interface design. |
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TheChessWorld - http://www.thechessworld.com
Place where you can play browser based chess, study openings, solve daily puzzles, enhance your strategy and tactics, read articles that can make you a master. |
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PlayChess - http://www.playchess.de/
Offers private chess games with list of challengers, tournaments, PGN downloads, message boards, and directory of annotated games. Requires paid membership and includes free trial as a guest. |
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Free Internet Correspondence Chess and Go Server - http://www.ficgs.com
At FICGS you can play class, rapid and special chess tournaments for free. |
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Scheming Mind - http://www.schemingmind.com/
Club offering correspondence chess and variants in-browser. |
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Electric Chess - http://www.electricchess.net/
Web based play-by-email site with instructions and statistics. |
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ChessClan.com - http://www.chessclan.com
Allows to play online correspondence chess. Contains world chess news and forum. |
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Gambit Chess - http://www.gambitchess.com/
Specialty site devoted to chess players who enjoy playing various opening gambits. Features online play in gambit-themed tournaments, notes, articles, analysis. |
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Chess World - http://www.very-best.de/PC.htm
Play a casual game or participate in one a tournament (thematic, round robin, swiss system). Games can be timed or not. There is a test area where you can go to play a few moves in non-counting games just to see how the site works. |
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FMO CHESS CLUB - http://chess.stumegan.net
A free online chess club, fully featured, ratings, tournaments, teams, Chess clocks, forums,blog, audio links. Kids area, Mature players, Ad free and peaceful |
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Pirate Chess 2003 - http://www.geocities.com/piratechess2003/
Java-based gameplay. Includes instructions. |
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easyChess - online chess game - comfortable and free - http://easychess.net
easyChess is a new project to let everyone play chess comfortable and free all over the world. |
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Chess On The Web - http://www.chessontheweb.com/chess/home
Play correspondence chess online against fellow chess enthusiasts. |
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Queenside.net - http://www.queenside.net/
Play chess against a computer wherever you are. |