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British Chess Magazine - The Chess Shop - - Published by British Chess Magazine. Features international and British chess news.

BrowserChess - - Online chess game playable against the computer or other players. Includes message board and Hall of Fame.

Chess Board - - An online game which provides unique URLs indicating each move. Users play by sending the URLs to each other.

Chess Fans - - Correspondence and real-time playing site including a shop and links.

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 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.

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.

ChessWise's Free Chess Lessons Online Chess Training - - Audio lectures by Grandmasters, lessons, and numerous sponsored activities highlight this chess-learning site.

ChessWorld.net - - Web based play-by-email server. Features include tournaments, leagues, forums, voting, and annotated games.

CowPlay Chess - - Offers news and gameplay. [Membership required..

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.

Fischer - Spassky E-mail Chess - - Online chess playable against a friend. Includes message forum.

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.

gChess - - Online email chess game playable against a friend.

GoldToken.com Games - - Free correspondence chess site with graphical boards and pieces and Elo ratings. The site keeps track of your board, end can email you when it is your turn. Challenge other players.

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.

Pirate Chess 2003 - - Java-based gameplay. Includes instructions.

Play against tkChess - - Play chess against a computer at Yale.

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.

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.

uChess - - Global community of blitz chess players. Includes chat and game analysis tools.

Vunzzz Chezzz - - Play Chess online with existing users or invite your friends.

World Chess Network - Chess Community for novice to International Grandmaster - - 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.