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