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Online chess game playable against the computer or other players. Includes message board and Hall of Fame.
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An online game which provides unique URLs indicating each move. Users play by sending the URLs to each other.
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Offers gameplay, message board, and chat.
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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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E-mail and browser based correspondence chess with multilingual ability.
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Chess On The Web is a browser based correspondence chess server.
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Offers online chess, play-by-email, and PGN files.
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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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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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With Chess5 you can store your chess games online and send them by email, or let other members evaluate your chess games.
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Offers correspondence chess, tournament reports including online game replay, opening database, and discussion forum.
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Free online chess game played against live opponents. Includes top 100 players list.
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Free, searchable chess game database and community.
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Browser based online chess with database, forums and links.
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Offers turn-based correspondence chess. Also has a forum.
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Web based play-by-email server. Features include tournaments, leagues, forums, voting, and annotated games.
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Presented by 1994 US Open Champion IM Georgi Orlov. Instruction, articles, and puzzles.
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An online database of user-submitted chess problems grouped by tactical motif. Features daily problems, aesthetic ratings, and a kibitzing forum.
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CompWebChess is an open source chess program and application which allows users to play chess over the internet.
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Offers news and gameplay. [Membership required.]
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Web based play-by-email site with instructions and statistics.
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Advice and discussions of opening strategy, sorted by chess rating relevance.
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At FICGS you can play class, rapid and special chess tournaments for free.
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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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Online chess community. Online play, tournaments, chess league, and thematic mini-tournaments.
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Grandmaster site of 1999 FIDE World Chapmpion Alexander Khalifman and other top Grandmasters. Instruction, news, links, gamebase, and puzzles.
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Several short articles illustrating how computers play chess. Very basic and easy to understand.
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The computer automatically pairs you up with an opponent from around the world. No registration is required.
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A new fast-action version of chess where both players move simultaneously. Registration is required to play.
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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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Host server for correspondence games and sets of related matches. Email notification, ratings, user-selectable interface design.
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Play a game of chess against Lokasoft's chess program or solve a chess quiz.
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Java-based gameplay. Includes instructions.
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Play chess against a computer at Yale.
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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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Offers correspondence chess with web based postcard system. Includes book store, problems and a chess playing CGI program.
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Community of correspondence chess players of all levels and ages. Only a web browser is required to play.
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Offers Beholderboard and Webchess, also links, shopping, and forums.
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Online correspondence chess played against friends or other members. Includes community forum and email notification of moves.
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Club offering correspondence chess and variants in-browser.
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Email chess application playable against a friend.
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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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Online turn-based chess games played against live opponents. Includes player rankings.
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Play online chess with opponents from beginners to grandmasters. World Chess Network provides free online chess and premium feature rich chess games, lectures, and interactive activities. Windows-only.
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Browser based chess service that makes it possible to play chess through email.
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Global community of blitz chess players. Includes chat and game analysis tools.
