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• Games: Board Games: Abstract: Battle Games: Chess  (830)

• BrowserChess - Online chess game playable against the computer or other players. Includes message board and Hall of Fame.
• Chess5 - With Chess5 you can store your chess games online and send them by email, or let other members evaluate your chess games.
• Chess Board - An online game which provides unique URLs indicating each move. Users play by sending the URLs to each other.
• Chess Hounds - Offers gameplay, message board, and chat.
• Chess Lab - 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.
• Chess Mail - E-mail and browser based correspondence chess with multilingual ability.
• Chess On The Web - Play correspondence chess online against fellow chess enthusiasts.
• Chess Stop - Offers online chess, play-by-email, and PGN files.
• Chess World - 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.
• ChessAge.com - Offers correspondence chess, tournament reports including online game replay, opening database, and discussion forum.
• ChessAnyTime.com - Free online chess game played against live opponents. Includes top 100 players list.
• ChessClan.com - Allows to play online correspondence chess. Contains world chess news and forum.
• ChessGames.com - Free, searchable chess game database and community.
• ChessHere.com - Browser based online chess with database, forums and links.
• ChessManiac.com - Offers turn-based correspondence chess. Also has a forum.
• 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.)
• Chessplayer.com - Presented by 1994 US Open Champion IM Georgi Orlov. Instruction, articles, and puzzles.
• Chesstr.com: Chess Problems and Tactics - An online database of user-submitted chess problems grouped by tactical motif. Features daily problems, aesthetic ratings, and a kibitzing forum.
• ChessWorld.net - Web based play-by-email server. Features include tournaments, leagues, forums, voting, and annotated games.
• CompWebChess - CompWebChess is an open source chess program and application which allows users to play chess over the internet.
• CowPlay Chess - Offers news and gameplay. [Membership required.]
• Cup of Chess - Play real-time chess with friends or others around the world in seconds. No downloads or registration required to play unlimited games for free. Register to track games and ratings.
• eChess.org - Browser based chess service that makes it possible to play chess through email.
• Electric Chess - Web based play-by-email site with instructions and statistics.
• Exeter Chess Club - Advice and discussions of opening strategy, sorted by chess rating relevance.
• FMO CHESS CLUB - A free online chess club, fully featured, ratings, tournaments, teams, Chess clocks, forums,blog, audio links. Kids area, Mature players, Ad free and peaceful
• Free Internet Correspondence Chess and Go Server - At FICGS you can play class, rapid and special chess tournaments for free.
• Gambit Chess - Specialty site devoted to chess players who enjoy playing various opening gambits. Features online play in gambit-themed tournaments, notes, articles, analysis.
• GameKnot Chess - Online chess community. Online play, tournaments, chess league, and thematic mini-tournaments.
• GrandMaster Chess - Grandmaster site of 1999 FIDE World Chapmpion Alexander Khalifman and other top Grandmasters. Instruction, news, links, gamebase, and puzzles.
• How Stuff Works - Several short articles illustrating how computers play chess. Very basic and easy to understand.
• InstantChess.com - Play chess online - The computer automatically pairs you up with an opponent from around the world. No registration is required.
• Kung Fu Chess - A new fast-action version of chess where both players move simultaneously. Registration is required to play.
• The London Chess Center - 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.
• MindZine - Chess News - Chess news and articles from all around the world by Mind Sports Worldwide. News, features, polls, updated roundups of other chess Web site contents.
• Net-Chess - Host server for correspondence games and sets of related matches. Email notification, ratings, user-selectable interface design.
• Online Chess at Lokasoft - Play a game of chess against Lokasoft's chess program or solve a chess quiz.
• Online_chess - Play, view and download chess games. Flash-based
• Pirate Chess 2003 - Java-based gameplay. Includes instructions.
• Play against tkChess - Play chess against a computer at Yale.
• Play correspondence chess games worldwide with real players. - A free browser based correspondence chess game playing site. Players have their own account, so their score and game history are viewable publicly. A small chess site with a good community feel.
• PlayChess - 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.
• Postcard Chess - Offers correspondence chess with web based postcard system. Includes book store, problems and a chess playing CGI program.
• Queen Alice Internet Chess Club - Community of correspondence chess players of all levels and ages. Only a web browser is required to play.
• Queenside.net - Play chess against a computer wherever you are.
• Real Chess - Offers Beholderboard and Webchess, also links, shopping, and forums.
• Red Hot Pawn - Online correspondence chess played against friends or other members. Includes community forum and email notification of moves.
• Scheming Mind - Club offering correspondence chess and variants in-browser.
• SoundChess - Email chess application playable against a friend.
• TheChessKing.com - Online turn-based chess games played against live opponents. Includes player rankings.
• TheChessWorld - 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.
• uChess - Global community of blitz chess players. Includes chat and game analysis tools.