Comments on: Online Chess

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:06:57 +0000

Hi, I recommend http://www.chessmaniac.com for Free Online Chess

By: brian patrick

brian patrick — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:43:54 +0000

http://www.goldtoken.com

plenty of other fun games and many chess variants.

By: Osman

Osman — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:53:54 +0000

I second redhotpawn for correspondence chess. Try uchess for real time. -O

By: Bosko

Bosko — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:15:17 +0000

I use Jin, a FICS client. FICS is Free-Internet-Chess-Server; I connect to freechess.org — if you like to play online chess, this stuff will blow your mind. There are even robots designed to demo e.g., famous openings or to play against; the whole experience is like rich IRC for chess players.

By: David Cowan

David Cowan — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:57:09 +0000

Brad,

Erik’s right that I used to play Yahoo Chess (more than 10,000 games) but I have very happily switched to Blitzin, the client for ICC. There’s no wait for games, graceful recovery from disconnects, and lots of great variation (loser’s chess, Fischer random…).

David

By: Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:26:41 +0000

Awesome -- while the above have outlined good choices, I play on http://www.redhotpawn.com which is all about chess so it's better than the portal sites. Auren Hoffman and other Valley folk use RedHotPawn. It's correspondance chess, which is what you need (not live games). If you choose this site I will invite you to a game (but will have no mercy).

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:13:42 +0000

I would checkout MSN zone games as you may already have a passport login. Its easy to setup – easy to reach other people you know to play and it will tally your scores and stats. Its also good for a quick game of other genres like checkers or backgammon.

By: Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:33:59 +0000

I would recommend http://www.chessclub.com (no affiliation). I've been a member for years. If you need to look me up, I'm member "dharmesh".

By: Erik Schwartz

Erik Schwartz — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:06:19 +0000

Yahoo! Chess.

I’m biased because it was my idea and I was on the team that built it.

David Cowan from BVP plays there.

Cheers,

Erik

By: Craig Wilcox

Craig Wilcox — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:10:43 +0000

Hey Brad,

I didn’t know you played. Glad to know it. I like Playchess.com, a service of Chessbase. Very intuitive interface, a lot of strong players, and excellent analysis of important games by my friend Yasser Seirawan.

Perhaps we’ll play a game someday!

–Craig