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Play Chess On-line |
| Caissa's Web
| A commercial service ($25 to $50 US/year) offering live and correspondence
games with WWW and Java interfaces. Types of games though is far more
limited than that offered by the
Internet Chess Club. You can apply for a free 30 day trial membership.
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| Chess Hall of Fame Live
| The online site for USCF. As of summer 2002.
you require a paid account to use Fixation on this server. As a result, there
is no longer any direct support for using Fixation 2.x on CHFL. |
| chess.net
| A free site similar to FICS. There are Java and a "lite" windows interfaces
for playing. For Macintosh enthusiasts, Fixation 2.x works with chess.net
although Accuclock (the chess.net version of FICS timeseal)
is not currently supported. |
| The Free Internet Chess Server is similar to the
ICC but registration
is free. Typically, there will be a couple hundred players logged on at
any one time. Only a handful of titled players make an appearance here, although
GM Knez does provide free lectures from time to time. If you cannot afford the ICC,
the FICS is the best alternative.
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| Free GNU server
| Play a free game against a server running the GNUChess engine.
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| GameKnot
| A web based playing site where you take turns making moves with your opponent.
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| Play blitz, bullet, standard, wild, bughouse and tournament games against
international players including GMs, IMs, and FMs. Standard access these
days is by a non-WWW graphical interface which can be downloaded from the site.
A Java applet is available but in my opinion, the platform specific
interfaces are much better. Free registration provides a 7 day limited trial.
Membership costs $49/year US and allows unlimited playing time. In my opinion,
this is the BEST site to play online chess in the world!
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| iChess
| Play and watch games using any Java enabled browser. Free.
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| It's Your Turn
| Play chess against individuals. You will need to register (free) to play.
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| Red Hot Pawn
| You can play one on one games with other registered players or play against the
Rival chess engine at varying levels of difficulty. Free registration.
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| SICO
| Ten communal boards to play the next move on. Not only play standard chess
but many interesting variants including Kirbies and Vampires. |