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- How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/chess.htm - Several short articles illustrating how computers play chess. Very basic and easy to understand.
- Net-Chess
http://www.net-chess.com - Host server for correspondence games and sets of related matches. Email notification, ratings, user-selectable interface design.
- 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.
- Red Hot Pawn
http://www.redhotpawn.com/ - Online correspondence chess played against friends or other members. Includes community forum and email notification of moves.
- Exeter Chess Club
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/ - Advice and discussions of opening strategy, sorted by chess rating relevance.
- Chessplayer.com
http://www.chessplayer.com/ - Presented by 1994 US Open Champion IM Georgi Orlov. Instruction, articles, and puzzles.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kung Fu Chess
http://www.kungfuchess.com - A new fast-action version of chess where both players move simultaneously. Registration is required to play.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.)
- World Chess Network
http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/ - 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.
- ChessAnyTime.com
http://www.chessanytime.com/ - Free online chess game played against live opponents. Includes top 100 players list.
- Pirate Chess 2003
http://www.geocities.com/piratechess2003/ - Java-based gameplay. Includes instructions.
- CowPlay Chess
http://www.cowplay.com/ - Offers news and gameplay. [Membership required.]
- ChessManiac.com
http://www.chessmaniac.com/ - Offers turn-based correspondence chess. Also has a forum.
- BrowserChess
http://www.browserchess.com/ - Online chess game playable against the computer or other players. Includes message board and Hall of Fame.
- TheChessKing.com
http://www.thechessking.com/ - Online turn-based chess games played against live opponents. Includes player rankings.
- SoundChess
http://www.soundkeepers.com/chess/e_mail_chess/index.php3 - Email chess application playable against a friend.
- 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.
- GameKnot Chess
http://gameknot.com/ - Online chess community. Online play, tournaments, chess league, and thematic mini-tournaments.
- ChessWorld.net
http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessclubs/asplogin.asp - Web based play-by-email server. Features include tournaments, leagues, forums, voting, and annotated games.
- 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.
- ChessAge.com
http://www.chessage.com/ - Offers correspondence chess, tournament reports including online game replay, opening database, and discussion forum.
- Chess Mail
http://www.chessmail.org/ - E-mail and browser based correspondence chess with multilingual ability.
- Chess Hounds
http://chesshounds.com/ - Offers gameplay, message board, and chat.
- Chess Board
http://chessboard.de/ - An online game which provides unique URLs indicating each move. Users play by sending the URLs to each other.
- Chess Stop
http://chessstop.com/ - Offers online chess, play-by-email, and PGN files.
- Real Chess
http://www.realchess.com/ - Offers Beholderboard and Webchess, also links, shopping, and forums.
- Scheming Mind
http://www.schemingmind.com/ - Club offering correspondence chess and variants in-browser.
- ChessHere.com
http://www.chesshere.com/ - Browser based online chess with database, forums and links.
- uChess
http://www.uchess.com/ - Global community of blitz chess players. Includes chat and game analysis tools.
- eChess.org
http://echess.org/ - Browser based chess service that makes it possible to play chess through email.
- Postcard Chess
http://www.postcardchess.com/ - Offers correspondence chess with web based postcard system. Includes book store, problems and a chess playing CGI program.
- Electric Chess
http://www.electricchess.net/ - Web based play-by-email site with instructions and statistics.
- Play against tkChess
http://pine.cs.yale.edu/cgi-bin/cp - Play chess against a computer at Yale.
- Online Chess at Lokasoft
http://www.lokasoft.nl/play.htm - Play a game of chess against Lokasoft's chess program or solve a chess quiz.
- ChessGames.com
http://www.chessgames.com - Free, searchable chess game database and community.
- Chess5
http://www.chess5.com - With Chess5 you can store your chess games online and send them by email, or let other members evaluate your chess games.
- Chess On The Web
http://www.chessontheweb.com/chess/home - Play correspondence chess online against fellow chess enthusiasts.
- Free Internet Correspondence Chess and Go Server
http://www.ficgs.com - At FICGS you can play class, rapid and special chess tournaments for free.
- CompWebChess
http://www.compwebchess.com - CompWebChess is an open source chess program and application which allows users to play chess over the internet.
- Chesstr.com: Chess Problems and Tactics
http://www.chesstr.com - 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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