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Edward Collins (EdCollins) - USA, Michigan.

GreekteamBG - A site for greek backgammoners who play through the net. The team is open to Greeks and for those who feel Greek even if not living in Greece.

Mr. Backgammon (Chris Ternel) - Few people in the world can claim the same expertise regarding backgammon, as Chris Ternel, alias Mr. Backgammon. Feel free to ask him for advice.

Morten Wang (Morty) - The rec.games.backgammon rollout archive, annotated matches, commented positions, the 10 Commandments of Backgammon, and links to other backgammon sites.

Svilen Todorov (Svilo) - Backgammon in Bulgaria. Rules in Bulgarian, annotated matches, and where to play.

Bonkers! from Parker Brothers - The rules. It's Never the Same Game Twice.

Chebache - A strategic board game combining elements of checkers, backgammon and chess and bridging the gaps between them.

Contagious Dreams Game Review - Chebache - The ContagiousDreams.com review of the Strategy game called Chebache, published by Pardee Games.

Jumpin - A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Jumpin (1964). Jumpin is an abstract strategy game for two players. The object of the game is for a player to move all of their "pawns" from one end of the board to the other. Pawns can only move by "jumping" over other pawns. A pawn can jump over one or more pawns as long as they are all in a row with no intervening spaces.

LUDO rules - A variant of Parcheesi.

Rules of Parcheesi - The Royal Game of India. The object of the game is to be the first player to move four pawns from START to HOME.

GameSquare - Don't upset yourself. Description of a Ludo variant.

Ludoteka - Online version of Parcheesi.

Pachisi - History and information. This is the national game of India.

Contagious Dreams Review - Peaceful Resistance - Review by Kristin Looney. "Peaceful Resistance is a wonderfully elegant abstract board game with compelling strategy as well as a worthwhile message. I highly recommend it."

Moksha Patamu (Snakes and Ladders) - History and information. This ancient Indian race game is a game of morality with the bases of the ladders being located on squares representing various types of good and the more numerous snakes coming from squares representing various forms of evil. A modern version is known as Chutes and Ladders.

Slangen en Ladders - Play a free game of snakes and ladders against the computer.

Sorry! Rules by Parker Brothers - To be the first player to get all four of your pawns from your color START to your color HOME.

Split Level Aggravation - Rules.

Royal Game of Ur and Tau - Sumerian Royal Game of Ur - History and information. The Egyptian version was known as Twenty Squares.

Contagious Dreams Game Review - Variance - The ContagiousDreams.com review of the Strategy game called Variance, published by DASH inc.

Contigo - A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Contigo (1974). Contigo is an alignment game for two players or a capture game for four players. The object of the two player game is for a player to get four pawns in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) without any opposing pawns between them. The object of the capture game is to capture the key pawn of your opponents by landing on it with one of your own pawns.

Enginuity Games - Doubles Wild - Doubles Wild is a game of luck and strategy where the object is to make as many 3-in-a-rows as possible in any direction. Your roll determines where your marker may go. If you don't like your first roll, try again, rolling the blue dice, the red dice, or both. If you roll a double on red or blue, that's WILD, and you may place your marker anywhere in the row or column.

Contagious Dreams Review - Review by Kristin Matherly.

Enginuity Games: Tilez! - A color-matching and spatial relations game that comes with 80 all-different "L"-shaped tiles. The object is to select a tile from your rack and place it on the board such that it matches as many existing neighboring colors as possible.

Tilez - Includes reviews of the board game Tilez, rules and how to order Tilez.

5ive Straight - Official site contains the rules, company contact information, and online ordering.

The Game Report: 5ive Straight Review - Review of the game by Peter Sarrett. Also contains general information such as the skill level required.

BoardgameGeek: 5ive Straight - Contains game session reviews, and information.

Block Breaker - A Strategy Board Game.

Link Five, A Logical Creations Strategy Game - Requires a logical mind, but it also teaches a mind to be logical. Most matches take about 8 to 10 minutes to play. For ages from 8 years old to Eighty years young. 282,429,536,481 possible sequences

Nine Mens Morris at Cox-TV - Features printable boards in PDF and PostScript formats, as well as rules and basic strategy.

Nine Mens Morris - Nine Mens Morris (Mill, Merrills, Morelles) - History and information.

Pentegonia, the Board Game - Pentagonia is a new two-player, abstract-strategy, board game with a very chess-like attribute. Victory is completely dependent on your mental powers, and completely independent of luck.

Quarto - Study of Quarto algorithms for computer play.

Set Quarto - Rules for playing Quarto with Set cards, with several variants which can also be played with the board game.

FIVE-STONE Game - A Java Gomoku interface that allows 2 users to play with each other.

The Renju World Magazine - Online version of the printed magazine. Information about competitions, analyses and interviews with the best players in the world.

Pente Net - Play Pente against a friend anywhere in the world! Pente Net supplies the board, the stones, the rules, the game system for you. No download required. Compatible with AOL, WebTV, all browsers.

The Renju International Federation - Renju is the professional variant of Go-Moku and uses more sophisticated rules. In renju the black player (the beginner of a game) is not allowed to make double-threes, double-fours or more than five in a row. Renju also uses sophisticated opening rules.

Bill's Pente Program - This is a unix program that plays the game of Pente. You can play against the computer, against another person sitting next to you, or against somebody on another computer across the internet.

DSG Pente Database - An open source database of over 40,000 Pente games played at several internet Pente sites.

Renju 2002 - A Renju tool for showing match information with a java application by Mike Guo.

Pente Quinary - An informational site about the game Pente with rules and the club pente Vancouver.

The World of Abstract Games - A collection of more than one hundred of the purest abstract games from all over the world. All these games can be played with very few material on a regular board.

Mankala by Greg Vogl - General information about the game.

Mancala - Mancala, Bao, Oware - History and information.

International Omweso Society - London - Official Omweso mancala rules from Uganda. (32 hole/64 seed mancala game)

Definitive Rules for Bao - Written by Rob Nierse. The Netherlands is a hotbed of Bao playing due to the work of Alex de Voogt. (32 hole/64 seed mancala from Swahili Coast esp. Tanzania/Zanzibar)

Jochen Wertenauer's homepage - Rules to the Bao version of the game. Also a PC version.

Oware Society - London - Official UK Oware/Aware Game playing society. (12 hole/48 seed mancala from West Africa)

Rules of MANCALA - Collect the most stones in your mancala (mancalas are the large bowls at each end of the board).

Oh-Wah-Ree - A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Oh-Wah-Ree (1962). The game contains several versions of Mancala games.

Congkak- Malay Traditional Game - Congkak is a very popular traditional game in Malaysia with slight variation to Mancala.

Tantrix Online - Play Tantrix games or puzzles against real people or robot players.

Tantrix UK Ltd puzzles & games - Tantrix is a collection of puzzles and an addictive award-winning strategy game played using attractive, colourful, hexagonal bakelite tiles.

Kensington Board Game - A simple strategy game for two players. Features rules, how to make the game, and strategy hints.

Hex Board Game - Contains a tutorial, discussion, and links.

Hex page at Cox-TV - Features printable Hex boards in PDF and PostScript formats, as well as rules and basic strategy.

Hex FAQ - David Boll's Frequently Asked Questions.

Hex IAQ - Answers to infrequently asked questions, by Bert Enderton.

Jack van Rijswijck's Hex Page - Description, proof that the game cannot end in a draw, links, and a downloadable program for online play.

How to Make a Hex Board in HTML - by Jon Kleiser. Shows how to build a Hex board in HTML using a small number of graphic elements (GIFs).

Hex Strategy - Part 1: Introduction and Basic Strategy by Cameron Browne. From Abstract Games magazine, Summer 2000

Hexy - Features academic papers in PDF format and a Hex-playing program for Windows.

Hex Game Information Center - By Emanuele. Features a position analysis tool and Playsite game viewer for Windows, and Java applets to step through some recorded games and examine opening strategies.

PlaySite - Hex Rules - Rules, strategy tips, and a version of the game to play against other PlaySite users (uses Java).

The OHex Board - An interactive database of possible 11x11 Hex board states that indicate possible winning or losing moves.

Hex Template Library - David King's collection of edge-connection templates. Includes basic templates for rows two through six, as well as ladder and bridge templates.

Machine Intelligence Hex - Server and competition for artificial Hex players.

Six - Hex playing program for KDE.

Twixt - A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Twixt (1963). Twixt is a three dimensional version of an old pen and paper game. The object of the game is to build an uninterrupted "bridge" from one end of the board to the other.

Uncrossed Knight Paths is NP-complete - Draft of a paper by Dominic Mazzoni and Kevin Watkins proving that finding paths in Twixt (i.e., whether it is still possible to win) is NP-complete.

Mark Thompson's Twixt page - Printable board diagram, brief history of the game, suggested variant, links.

MindZine: TwixT and Quarter-board - Introduction and course in basic TwixT strategy.

Mark Thompson's Bridg-It page - Description of the game of Bridg-It (Gale), suggestions for variants, and a diagram showing optimal strategy for classic version.

Lines of Action - Features rules, variations, and problems. The game is related to Chess, Go, and Othello.

Mark's LOA Homepage - Features rules, discussion, a M.Sc. thesis about the game, and a Java applet version.

Misc Trax Links - Information about the popular board game from New Zealand, including short rules in Danish and many archived games.

TRAX Resource Index - Comprehensive source for all things Trax including rules, software and archived World Championship games.

MSN Gaming Zone - Trax(TM) - Play Trax online with others all over the world. (Note: Microsoft Windows required)

Trax E-Mail Server - Play Trax by e-mail on Richard's play-by-email server.

Trax Time - Introduction, strategies, and puzzles.

Trax Forum - A place to discuss anything related to Trax with other Trax players.

The Official Proton Home Page - Proton, the retro-futuristic, self-contained, abstract strategy PocketBoardGame for 1 or 2 players.

Contagious Dreams Game Review - Proton - The ContagiousDreams.com review of the game called Proton, published by Looney Labs.

Ea Ea's Game of Star - Craig Schensted, inventor of Y, Poly-Y, and Star, describes this game.

The Jerusalem Cube - Space Marbles - A three dimensional strategic game, suitable for players aged 9 to adults. Features description and pictures.

Sensei's Library - A collaborative web site about and around the game of Go, where anyone can freely contribute information and participate in discussions.

Web Go Page Index - An exhaustive listing of go related web pages.

Game of Go Webring - Contains sites with clubs, game information, and downloads.

Go, an Addictive Game - An encyclopedia of go topics, including rules, stories, tournaments, computers, and resources for the study and enjoyment of the game.

Computer Resources for Go Players - Covers all aspects of the use of computers in relation to go. From the British Go Association.

BGA Software Catalogue - Listing of go software available in the British Go Association archive.

CGoban - A Unix Go Server program with many features.

OpenGo - Intended as a workbench for prospective programmers of go engines, this program provides some simple built-in Go opponents for users to play and supports pipe and modem players.

Computer Go Ladder - An informal competition between various go-playing computer programs.

Gnu Go - A free cross-platform computer go opponent.

Mick's Computer Go - News and information about computer programs that play go.

Arnoud's TurboGo - Go-playing computer program and screensaver, plus an online joseki database which replays interesting sequences.

PubGo++ - A set of C++ classes for go programming.

Computer Go Bibliography - Online publications on programming the game of go.

SmartGo - Go-playing program and Go game editor. Free 9x9 version available for download.

AUGOS - The Automatic Go Player - A program for Windows that can play the japanese board game go.

David Fotland's Many Faces of Go - The 1998 World Computer Go Champion, and six time US Computer Go Champion. A strong Computer Go opponent.

Hui Huang's WinIGC/MGT - Shareware go internet client.

Xgospel User's Guide - X-Window client for internet go servers.

CGoban 2 - Includes an editor for SGF go files and a client for the Kiseido Go Server.

Complete Goban - Go program for Unix and X11. Local, internet or modem play, as well as .SGF-compatible record and replay.

TanGo - A freeware IGS and NNGS compatible Go client.

Ergo - Java-Applet to play against a Go-Server.

Java Go Client - A java plug-in to run Go against a server.

Jago - Java-Client, Internet Go Server client, a Smart Go Format go game viewer and a point to point go player.

Ergo - Java client for internet go servers. Use from your web browser or as an application.

The Go Assistant - A set of tools for the serious go player, including a variations editor, IGS client subsystem, and a full OLE server.

JiGo - Replay professional go games online.

David Hanon's GO48 - A game player/recorder for the HP48 calculator.

Go Recorder for the Pilot - PalmPilot program allowing recording and playback of go games on several board sizes.

GO Write - Windows program allowing reading and writing of .SGF files.

GoCE - Records and replays .SGF files on your CE.

Goban - Free software to play go on Mac OS X.

PilotGOne - A PalmPilot GO .SGF format viewer and recorder.

SGF File Format Specifications - Details on the Smart Go Format for computer-recorded go games.

SGF User Guide - Explains the features and concepts of the SGF file format for recording go games.

BadukTracer - A set of go utilities for Mac.

CGoban 2 - Includes an editor for SGF go files and a client for the Kiseido Go Server.

Complete Goban - Go program for Unix and X11. Local, internet or modem play, as well as .SGF-compatible record and replay.

JiGo v2.0 Java-based Interface for Go - An open-source API for programming Go-related applets and applications. It includes an SGF reader, and extensive documentation.

JavaGO - Freeware java go applet for editing games.

RenderSoft Corinnax Go Control - Tools for producing go materials, including desktop publishing-style functionality.

Daniel Bump's Go - A system for typesetting Go games and diagrams using TeX.

Go2000 - A full-featured Go database management system with pattern matching and classification.

GoTools: The Tsume-Go Program - Tools for learning life and death situations, including a huge database of problems, and several interactive modes.

Kombilo - A free database program for game collections in SGF format. It includes search function for patterns, positions and game information.

GoWin - Screensaver that replays .SGF format go games.

Battle Go - Animated Samurai Warriors and a strong computer opponent are key features of this game. Unlike traditional Go, Battle Go allows multiple players to play at once. Still under development.

Go Variants - Slightly different games that can be played on a go board or in a similar style as go.

Go on a 2 by 2 Board - Mathematical analysis of the outcome of go on a board with four or fewer vertices, under a suitable mathematical ruleset.

Quantum Go - A tool to teach principles of Fault-Tolerant Design, based on the game of go.

Round Go Board - Print out this round go board from a PDF file and experiment.

Compendium of Rules for Wei-Qi (Go, Baduk) - Detailed rulesets from various sources. Also an interesting note on the mathematical consequences of various rulesets, and the 'beasts' that arise.

Go (Weiqi, Baduk) Rules - Extensive discussion and resource on the rules of go and their variations.

Jean-Loup's Go - A pot-pourri of thoughts and links.

Harry Fearnley's Go (Baduk, WeiQi/Wei-Ch'i, Igo) - List of links relating to go, especially its rulesets, computers and go, and go in Britain.

Milt's Go - A variety of articles dealing with go in North America, and its value in teaching and the development of reasoning skills.

Ken's Go - An extensive list of go links, a beginner's introduction to go and internet go, a collection of articles about the ten golden rules of Go, and several commented games of Go Seigen.

Barry Phease - Includes information about the New Zealand Go Society and clubs in the area.

Take-N-Give's Go page - Personal collection of well-loved links to articles, tutorials, shops, servers etc.

Sven Tissot's Go - Includes a short introduction and the go web-ring.

Ken Warkentyne - Includes background information and links for the oriental version of Go.

David Fotland - Creator of Many Faces of Go, a successful go playing program listed on the Computer Go Ladder.

The Game of Go -- David A. Mechner - Articles on computer go, ranking and how to study the game.

Sango's Go - News and games from Japan and IGS, articles on the study of go, go and computers, and a teaching ladder.

Building a Go Board - A collection of hints and tips on making a go board and finding cheap stones.

Online Go Writing and Some Other Matters - Charles Matthews - Various notes and links related to go and the author's writings.

The game of go - Go Oyunu - Includes dictionary and FAQ. In Turkish and English.

The Go Treasure Chest - Covers various aspects as commented games, tournament reports and results. The focus is on tournament-Go in Austria and Europe with photos from european tournaments.

Andre Engels Go Page - With several Go variants.

The Web Go Page Index - A large and organised list of Go web resources, which is maintained by Ken Warkentyne.

Tsume Go Of The Day - Easier and harder daily problems with solutions.

Minoru Harada's Tsumego - Elementary and intermediate weekly problems with archive and solutions.

Go Problems - solve go problems interactively through a Java applet; explore variations and contribute problems to the community

My Friday Night Files - Fansite dedicated to Cho Chikun with over 1000 games.

Takemiya's Most Recent Games - A short biography and a large collection of the games of Japanese professional go player Takemiya Masaki, 9 dan.

Annotated Go Bibliographies - Detailed reviews and reader's comments about books concerning go.

To Test a Powerful Computer, Play an Ancient Game - A lengthy article on the difficulties of programming a computer to play go.

American Go Extra, Summer 1994 - Several articles, including an interview and game commentaries.

Kiwi Go - Articles about go from the journal of the New Zealand Go Society.

The Magic of Go - A regular column covering many aspects of the game, from strategies to tournaments, with problems and answers.

On The Rules of Go - An online version of a book by Dr. Ikeda Toshio.

Book of Commented Games by Go Seigen - Available in various electronic formats.

MindZine Go News - News, information, interviews and articles about the game of go.

British Go Journals - A selection of the articles from 'ancient' British Go Journals.

The Interactive European Go Magazine - Online magazine offering interactive articles on watching, learning, playing and teaching go in several languages. Many require Flash.

Pair RICOH Cup - Annual tournament of Japanese pairs. Past and present tournament schedules and results.

North American Masters Go Tournament - History, schedules of current events, players and game records.

Ari's Go Page - History, past results and game records of Finnish and European tournaments, and songs and related photos.

Austrian Go-Navigator - Lists meetings in Austria.

European Go Tournament Calendar - With links to calenders around Europe.

American Go Association - Includes news, links, and information.

Australian Go Association - Contains tournament and membership information.

French Go Association - Includes game information.

European Go Federation - Includes news, links, information, and members.

Belgian Go Federation - Contains news, ratings, pictures, downloads, and links.

British Go Association - Includes downloads, tutors, history, and reviews.

Dutch Go Association - Includes a calendar, addresses, links, and software.

Czech Go Association - Includes a history, members, and tournaments.

Finnish Go Association - Offers a calendar and newsletter.

Wings Go Club - An online community to promote the enjoyment and fellowship of go. Hosts activities like teaching, matches and tournaments online. Free online go books available.

American Ing Goe - Contains links, pictures, and news.

Nihon Ki-in Go - Includes rules, events, and a history.

Slovenian Go Association - Offers links, history, and clubs.

Romanian Go Federation - Includes links, events, ratings, and clubs.

Swiss Go Association - Includes tournaments, ratings, and events.

The Canadian Go Association - The official website of the Canadian Go Association - features contact information, tournament information and other items of interest to Go players in Canada.

Norwegian Go Association - Contains history, clubs, events, news, and links.

Rhein-Maas-Liga - Tables, schedule and rules for several Go teams from the region around the Rhine and the Maas.

European Go Cultural Centre - Japaneese Go centres around the world. Organize club evenings, tournaments, courses, meetings and seminars.

Israel Go Game - A site to organise Go players in Israel.

Australian Go Association - Contains tournament and membership information.

European Go Cultural Centre - Offers information on the club.

Antony Go Club - Contains registration and tournament information as well directions on how to get to this club located near Paris, France.

Go Clubs in Los Angeles - A listing of go clubs in Los Angeles.

Baia Mare Go Club - Contains news, game information, game rules, tutorials, links and history.

Birmingham Go Club - Contains information about the club, member roster, and links to other Go sites. This club is located in Birmingham, England.

Brooklyn Go Club - Contains information about the club, guestbook, and links to other Go sites. Located in New York, USA.

Cambridge Go Society - Contains member roster, informarion on the club, links to other Go sites and the rules of the game. Located in Cambridge, England.

Santa Monica Go Club - Contains links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Santa Monica, USA.

Colorado Go Clubs - A listing of go clubs in Colorado with related news and tournaments.

Dublin Go Club - Contains news, tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Dublin, Ireland.

High Wycombe Go Club - Contains tournament information, member roster, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in High Wycombe, England.

The Edinburgh Go Club - Contains tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A New York Go Page - Information for go players and organizations in the New York area.

San Francisco Go Club - Contains news, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in San Francisco, USA.

Oxford City Go Club - Contains links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Oxford, England.

Plymouth Go Club - Contains the history of the game, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Plymouth, England.

Seattle Go Center - Located near the University of Washington, provides a friendly and educational place to play Go. Affiliated with the Nihon Ki-in.

Swindon Go Club - Contains tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Swindon, England.

University Go Club Student Nis - Contains tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Nis, Yugoslavia.

Swedish Go Info - Swedish Go Clubs, tournaments and information for go players in Sweden.

Tulsa Go Club - Contains tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

University of Aizu Go Club - Contains member roster, tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Fukushima, Japan.

West Surrey Go Club - Contains history of the game, tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in West Surrey, England.

Copenhagen Go Club - Contains information on the club and Go in Denmark. Located in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Billericay Go Club - Go Club in Billericay, Essex, UK. Within easy reach of East London, and most of South Essex.

Basel - Information about go-playing and go-events in Basel, Switzerland.

Houston Go Club - Contains information on where the club meets, on how to join, club activities, and links to other Go resources.

Massachusetts Go Association - Contains tournament information, links to other Go sites and information on the club. Located in Boston, USA.

Cheltenham Go Club - Contains information on the club and links to other Go sites. Located in Cheltenham, England.

Games of Go on Disk - A collection of around 10000 games distributed on disks.

Professional Games in Smart Go Format - A collection of .SGF format games available for download and study.

Stonetalk - Mailing list devoted to the analysis of professional go games.

Go Record Libarary - Collection of over 20000 go games, including an online viewer. Website in chinese.

Go4Go.net - Go game collection of professional game records with a search engine. An English version that runs independently of the go4go.net main site in Chinese.

PlayGo.to - Including a huge introductory tutorial, as well as some go artwork, computer applications and a go-game trading database.

Go Teaching Ladder - Get your own games reviewed by stronger players to improve your game. Huge game archive with comprehensive indices online.

A Beginner's Introduction to Go - A lengthy introduction covering the rules and basic concepts in detail, with a sample game.

Tel's Go Notes - Notes for beginning players.

How to Teach Go - A novel way to teach go to beginners.

Rafael's Go Page - Rules, strategies and bloopers, as well as a selection of rec.games.go posts.

Weiqi.Com - An introduction and some advice on strategy.

What is Go? - A beginner's introduction to go, with a little history.

Pi: The Game of Go - An introduction to go and its use in the movie Pi.

Go (Wei Chi) Online Guide - A short introduction with a brief history.

Go FAQ - Frequently asked questions about go, their answers, and miscellaneous go-related topics.

Guo Juan's Internet Go School - Take lessons by email from a Chinese 5-dan professional.

Go Lessons Offer - Online go lessons available from a European 6-dan in German or English.

Macfadyen's Go Teaching - Correspondence courses, go seminars, and an assessment of the difficulty level of various go problem books.

The Interactive Way to Go - Java-based interactive tutorial in several languages, in 33 brief lessons.

Kiseido Go Server Tutorial - Java-based interactive tutorial to Go / Baduk / Wei'qi.

Go Servers, Etc. - Details on the various ways to play go online against others. Includes a recent list of go servers, including those without webpages. From the British Go Association.

Richard's Play By Email Server: Go - Sign up to play go with others through email. An ascii copy of the board is emailed to you each time your opponent makes a move.

The No Name Go Server - Use with telnet or with a client. This is a moderately busy go server.

Internet Go Server - Play go online using the IGS protocol with a client or by telnet. Popular and usually busy.

Kiseido Go Server - Server for reviewing games with an opponent, accessible with a client or online using Java.

Neostone3.1 for free online Go (Baduk) game - Play Go(Baduk) on the internet using Neostone3.1, a multilingual software. Play Baduk in Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

World-Wide Internet Gokaisho - Go server based in Japan. Play via telnet or a client, or with java on the web.

Jörch's Go - Play 9x9 Go online with computer programs Jogo and Wally. Uses pure HTML; no Java required.

World Web Go - Play online using Java.

Yahoo Go - Web-based go server with basic features: ability to start, join and watch games of various sizes and options.

World Web Go - Play Go Online.

Australian Othello Federation - Promoting the game of Othello in Australia. Has news, strategy, and information about world championships.

Othello News - Newsletter for othello enthusiasts with interviews, columns, and tournament information.

Othello Association of Singapore - Includes animated archives of the World Othello Championships as well as othello openings.

VOG Othello Club - Includes online reversi gameroom with human and computer play, reversi tournaments, a great section on reversi strategy, and library with archived games.

Andrea Zinno's Othello Page - Includes information about othello game programming, game analyses, rules, strategies, and world championships information.

Jonathan's Reversi Page - Includes rules of reversi, advanced strategy for reversi, programs for playing, practicing, and analyzing reversi, information on internet play, and other miscellaneous information.

Othello Pages - Includes some articles from the British Othello Federation's newsletters.

Bluez' Othello Links - A comprehensive list of othello links on the internet.

Gunnar's Othello Page - Contains information about Zebra, the premier Windows reversi program, information on the inner workings of strong othello programs, and several categorized reversi links.

Goran's Othello/Reversi Website - Contains opening information, tutorials, game analyses, tournament information, and links to other reversi sites.

French Federation of Othello - Includes information about the Othello World Championships, many programs, and a newsletter.

MidnigHt's Othello Site - Blue Manta's reversi articles, game analyses, puzzles, and tournament transcripts.

Ataxx ! The Pressibus inventory - Ataxx is similar to Reversi/Othello, with other moves. More offensive, more parameters. Permanent inventory, many links for download, java applets. Also Hexxagon games.

Ataxx - Origins - History of the game.

Abalone - Includes rules, variations, strategies, online game, chat, and articles. Site requires Flash plugin.

Abalone - Web game version of Abalone

Spelmagazijn - Abalone - Description and pictures about the game Abalone. 2 players try to push the marbles of the other player from the gameboard. English.

The International Abalone Players' Home Page - Collection of information for playing Abalone against a computer.

The now-defunct MIT Abalone Mailing List (26-Jan-1996) - Archive of the old mailing list

Kahuna - Two priests, wielders of Kahuna magic, compete to learn who is the more powerful. They have selected a small group of 12 uninhabited islands and will use their magical powers to build bridges linking the islands. Each bridge gives a priest some control over the forces of the islands.

Siesta - The sun shines over roofs to create shadows. That is the natural way of things. In this beautiful game, players use these natural and man-made elements to score points for long strings of roofs.

Triplejump - Contains reviews, rules, community services and live help.

World Correspondence Draughts Association - Information in both Dutch and English. News, Results, Contacts.

Checkers & Draughts - Checkers and Draughts, rules, champions, problems, famous players and positions. World Championship Matches.

Grooves Speed Team - A "blitz" checker team that plays in Yahoo.

About.com Checkers NetLinks - Annotated links to resources across the Web for checkers and draughts.

Checkers Information at Board Game Central - Information, book, and links about the game of Checkers, as well as software for Windows, Macintosh, and other platforms.

Pond Checkers - Baby frogs and bull frogs, checkers will never be the same, after you played the Pond Checkers game. Ages 6 and up.

American Checker Federation - Official organizational website.

Bob's Canadien Draughts Page - An interesting 10x10 draughts site, With lots of information.

New Style Draughts - Contains rules of the game, and information.

Jim Loy's Checkers Pages - Checkers enthusiast Jim Loy has a whole book on checkers online here. Learn about the game, look at commented old games and read his articles on checkers.

CheckersLinks.com - A checkers directory with categorized links to checkers sites with rules, history, graphics, ratings, books, articles, software, forums, boards, playsites, leagues, and tournaments.

International draughts site - Features rules, news, tournaments, software, forum, photos, history, and problems for international draughts (10x10).

Checker Animations - Learn to play checkers by viewing animated games. Contains familiar themes in checkers, famous positions, end games, openings, traps and shots.

Wikipedia - History and rules of the game.

The Alquerque Family of Games - History, information, where to buy. Also known as Fanorona, Dama, Aracaby, and Damenspiel.

Diamonds Board Game - The first player to collect 25 diamonds WINS the game. If both players collect 24 diamonds, it is a tie.

Gess - Gess (pronounced "guess") is a game for two players that was originally conceived by the Puzzles and Games Ring of the Archimedeans as a generalised form of chess.

King Row Checkers - King Row Checkers is a Chess-Style Checkers boardgame where the classic game of checkers is presented in a significantly more entertaining and enjoyable pastime than before. Twenty game variations added with player options and choices, this board game holds its own against other strategy games.

Lasca - Checkers with Teeth - A description and how-to of one of the most interesting twists on the game of checkers.

Lasca - Played with draughts pieces on a chequered board. Features rules, annotated game, problems, and information about computer versions.

Terrace ...the purest strategy game - Terracegames.com is the official website of Terrace, a strategy game that was on Star Trek: The Next Generation and won all of the major game awards when it was introduced in 1992. The board game and computer game are both featured on the website. Sahreware versions are free and allow gamers to play via the internet. The history of the game, photos, strategies and tactics, lists of Terrace fans and stores that carry the game.

Terrace 6x6 Board Game - Terrace Games Web Page.

Contagious Dreams - Review by Andrew Looney - Described as "unusual and stylish".

Corx Inc - A promotional site for the product, that includes photographs and instructions.

Yahoo Discussion Group - Zertz is a checkers variant with a shrinking hexagonal board. Discuss strategies and tactics, post problems or puzzles, analyze game transcripts, announce tournaments or trade anecdotes here.

Bosworth - Contains useful information, the rules and reviews for Bosworth.

Out of the Box Games - Each player in Bosworth controls a small kingdom represented by 16 cards. The characters illustrated on the cards move just like the chess piece silhouetted behind them...if you've ever played chess, you're ready to play!

Ed's Ever-Growing Chess Page - Chess pictures, stories, tournaments, games and problems.

My Obsession with Chess - Scott McCloud recounts his childhood and adult addiction to the world of grids, knights, and checkmates.

Chess Galaxy - Photo gallery, downloads, games, problems, and a diary.

Chess Corner - Includes quotes, rules, tactics, chat, and Internet play.

Chess Poster - Problems, news, games, history, players, and rules.

The Chess Centre - Contains reviews, learning sections, workshops, free competitions, book reviews, and user game of the month.

PawnPusher - Chess comedy, stories and opening theory.

Peter's Chess Page - History of chess as well as some interesting facts and useful chess links.

Chess Set Collection - A pictorial site of a personal collection of over 50 chess sets from around the world.

Chess Stories - Short stories related to chess.

Avler Chess - Featuring chess products, strategies, forums, and games.

Kasparov Chess - Play online, read the latest chess news and analysis, and improve your game with online tutorials and multimedia lessons.

GilaChess Website - Contains forums, tournament news, games in PGN files, and links.

MyChessSite - Information about gambits, email chess, Internet chess, chess sets and chess software.

Miguel Garcia's Chess Sets Gallery - A gallery of chess set photos.

Chess World - Games, software, PGN files, news and links.

About.com: Chess - Information includes rules, tactics, clubs, software, and Internet play.

Chess Geek - Puzzles, books, PGN files, software reviews, news, and links.

Derek's Chess World - Learning, tournaments, games, fun, humor, polls, and news.

ChessGames.com - Online PGN chess game database with java viewers, and chat forums.

Chess Megapage - Chess Theory, Openings A00-E99, commented games by grandmasters from recent chess tournaments, and sections devoted to Judit Polgar and Bobby Fischer.

Chessville - Instructions, reviews, downloads, web-directory, trivia, and history.

Chess - Chess problems, studies and games. You may play chess against the computer and see the ratings of the top 100 chess players.

Alekhine Game Of The Week - A site dedicated to Alekhine's Defense (1. e4 Nf6). Annotated games, game viewer, and message board.

Greekbase - Download Greek chess games in pgn format.

The chess quiz - Test your knowledge of the official FIDE rules with this interactive chess quiz.

Winning Chess - A chess information site including chess openings, problems, news, solitaire chess, learning/practice with a large games database with a Java player.

The Chess Drum - The purpose of the site is to champion the success of black chess players around the world, to give a greater sense of community, and for sharing ideas and knowledge.

Kids' Chess Network - Chess book reviews, chess education services and tournaments.

The Chess Coach - Quality chess lessons for children.

National Scholastic Chess Foundation - Promoting chess in schools.

Chess For Juniors - Runs national chess camps and workshops for youth and Colorado's Scholastic Chess Club.

Chess Camps - Summer chess camps in northern and southern California, taught by International Master Larry D. Evans.

Chess Kids - The wit and wisdom experienced by young chess champions and how they ace the world's oldest game.

The Right Move - Provides news, results, and schedules for tournaments and workshops.

Agawam High School Chess Club - Comprehensive site containing chess problems, tutorials, and an email chess directory.

US Chess Federation's Scholastic Chess - Quarterly news reports, resources for coaches, parents, and players, and information on featured coaches and players.

Chess Class - Includes information and tips on setting up and running a chess club for children.

Clatskanie Chess Club - A resource for scholastic chess players and their parents. Find out about local tournaments and order chess equipment.

Dean of Chess - International Master of Chess, Dean Ippolito, provides group & private chess lessons to students and players of all ages and levels. Other resources such as supplies, online problems and upcoming events can also be found here.

Chess Technologies - Provides chess training softwares using the educational technique known as flashcards.

Chess is Fun - Clear instructions on how the chess pieces move.

The Basics of Chess - Tutorials on three levels.

Chess Doctor - Free newsletter and tips for all inexperienced chess players.

Chess Rules - Rules, basics on how the pieces move, books, and a downloadable freeware chess game.

Midwest Chess Academy - Chess lessons, games and links.

Learning Chess - Concise, step-by-step instructions that will teach you to play chess. Explains the board set-up, the pieces, strategy, special moves, and how to win.

Internet Chess Page - Chess trivia, openings, and games.

Chess Sites - Learn how to play chess well, browse chess information from the Huntsville Chess Club.

Chessolutions - Free chess lessons, e-books, and membership.

Online Chess Coach - Chess coach will instruct you to play chess better.

Chess for Success - Learn the ideas behind the chess moves without memorizing.

Chess Notes - Dedicated to the average and above average player who wants to get better.

64 Commandments of Chess - Summary of hints, pointers and precepts of chess.

Glenn's Chess Page - Chess tips, study, lessons and instruction links.

A Chess Realm - A chess web site with free online tutorials, chess history, information & news, debate forums, product reviews and chess links.

Chintan's Chess Page - Chess problems, openings and tutorials.

Checkmate - Educational webpage designed to teach people about chess. Supplemented by a glossary, forum center, guestbook, and interactive games.

Allexperts: Chess Strategies - Volunteer experts answer your detailed questions about chess strategies and tactics for free.

ConradCHESS - Chess problem solving event with prizes, and links to free email chess clubs.

Chess Instructions for Beginners - Appropriate for those seeking to learn to play chess.

The Orang Utan, Sokolsky, Polish... the Chess Opening: 1.b4! - The only page on the Sokolsky (also known as Polish and Orang-Utan) chess opening. Information on tournaments, CAP data, games, history and even facts on the animal itself.

Easy Chess - Offers chess analysis, lessons, and educational information about chess.

Jim's Chess Page - Strategies for defeating mechanical opponents.

Jon Levitt's Chess Site - A British grandmaster discusses chess talent and aesthetics with humorous articles and photos.

ChessKIDS academy - Free online chess lessons and quizzes for kids. Resource center for parents and teachers.

Chess Tutorial Page - Offers chess lessons, instruction for beginner and intermediate players.

Animated Chess - Includes move animations, wallpaper, animated games, and puzzles.

Avler Chess - Online chess resource for learning to play chess, learning strategies, buying chess products, discussing chess with other chess fans and players.

Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - This site contains games downloadable by ECO code, A00-E99 most of the games are good, but you just have to keep your eye out for the bad ones.

Chess Archives - History, tutorials and end game basics.

IntellectWorld.com - Chess Tactics - Graphical tactics tutorial which can immediately improve your play, plus complimentary diagram service and an archive of 16,000 classic games.

Learnthat.com - A basic guide for beginners on the complex game of chess. It provides many helpful tips and teaches you the movements and openings every chess player should know with great ease.

National Chess Network - Master Chess lessons - Master chess lessons at an affordable price. Any and all levels. Chess lessons for children and adults, experienced and beginner.

About Chess.com - A wealth of chess resources.

Beginners Chess Page - Information about chess play and chess notation as well as a glossary for chess terms.

Adam's Page - Material about chess openings, openings statistics, puzzles, and an essay on how to beat chess computers.

50 Chess Games for Beginners - An interactive chess tutorial site for new players. Includes chess openings, notation, grading, links and a free competition. Requires modern browsers to participate.

Unusual Chess Openings - A collection of twenty of the most unusual chess openings around. Includes the Hippopotamus Defence.

Chess Openings - Website with assorted openings.

Chess Warrior - Animated move instructions, other general information, popular games modified for chess, and games in pgn format.

Roman's opening theory chess and math website - Original chess opening thoery of pirc defense, latvian gambit, and correspondence games.

Test Your Chess - Improve your chess with free interactive chess lessons. Find the Move puzzles to help junior and adult chess players to improve their playing strength.

Michal Rudolf's Chess Page - Detailed analysis of some endgame positions, mainly from master-level games.

Grandmasters Chess Academy - Chess training, downloads, skill evaluations and improvement guides, and a wide range of chess software and books.

Chess-puzzle - Chess puzzles, tactics and strategy in a test yourself format. Chess problems for sale.

A beginners guide to chess - Made by Kirkules.

The Great Pawn Hunter Chess Tutorial - Free chess concepts without having to memorize moves from an instructor. The teacher has taught many how to play chess.

Chess Visualisation Training - Free online step-by-step exercises which help you to increase your chess visualisation.

Alex Miller's Chess Basics - Chess basics, history, notation, pieces, draws, and special moves.

Alex Miller's Chess Basics - Guide to chess basics, history, notation, pieces, draws, and special moves.

ChessBase - Chessbase European Site. ChessBase is a multi-featured chess database program.

Chess Graphics - A site devoted to all aspects of chess graphics. Photographs, cartoons, ray tracing, paintings, drawings and much else.

Lokasoft - ChessPartner 4.0 a strong Chessgame for W95/98/NT. Features: 3d pieces, database, PGN support, internet play, print diagrams, create books, copy and paste games, analyse games, speaks, shows opening name, score histogram.

Tasc ChessSystem - Commercial site offering programs, databases, openings, and a tutorial.

Computer Chess - PGN files of tournaments, test suites, and links to chess programs.

Turbo Prolog Chess - A simple chess program, written in Turbo Prolog. Executable and source code available.

How to Beat Chess Computers - Chess - Advice and tips on how to beat Chess Computers

Chess World - Chess programs and utilities, including a rating calculator, a PGN viewer, and a program for online play.

Chess Marvel - Traditional chess software.

Interchess email chess - Play chess via email. Seemlessly integrates with your email client to send and receive your moves as emails. Fully validated chess board, graphical interface, very customisable.

Chess Clock Software. - Marco software presents Take-Turns with Chess Clock. The Take Turns part helps kids share the PC. The Chess Clock speeds up chess games.

Play It Again Chess - Free download of Casablanca Chess, the toughest electronic chess game on the WWW.

CompuChess.com - An advanced 3D chess program for Windows.

Official Wacky Chess Homepage - Why Wacky Chess? Who's seen a board of blue and green squares that keeps score?

Chess, Computers and Stuff - Online games, including the "Great Moments of Computer Chess"; software cover art gallery.

Actual Chessware - Free software for playing chess -freeware, shareware & demos- and chess resources.

Chess Puzzle Games - Chess tutorial games and training simulators for kids. Free software downloads.

ChessWorks - Multiplayer chess game that is playable over the internet or a LAN. Can be played on Mac OS 8 - 9, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems.

Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program - Open source chess program, with comments, for Windows and Macintosh systems.

MSCP - Marcel's Simple Chess Program. Source code download only. Released under the GNU GPL free software license. Run's with XBoard.

ICCA - The ICCA was founded by computer chess programmers in 1977 to organise championship events for computer programs and facilitate sharing of technical knowledge via the ICGA Journal (formerly the ICCA Journal).

Rémi Coulom's Home Page - Free chess software: a pgn->epd file converter, auto232<->winboard adapters, and The Crazy Bishop, a chess-playing program.

Montreux - A multi-featured graphical chess game viewer. It understands PGN and other game formats. It is an applet which can easily be integrated on web pages.

Omid's Computer Chess - Home of the Genesis chess engine and latest computer chess research by Omid David.

Chess Publishing (Norresundby) - The definitive site for chess publishing on PCs. Diagrams, fonts, graphics. Original content and many links.

Alpine Game Fonts - Fonts for chess diagrams and other games.

Chess Captor - [Shareware - $25] Create chess diagrams in GIF, BMP, JPEG, print. Windows 95/98/NT required.

EPD2diag - [Freeware] Convert chess positions to HTML, GIF, RTF, PGN, EPD, BMP. Windows 95/NT only.

Internetowe Centrum Szachowe (Polish Internet Chess Center) - Chess Diagrams and Fonts

ChesSaver - Chess Screen Saver - ChesSaver is a personal chess screensaver for windows and mac that allows you to enter your own games and view them as a screensaver. Now with PGN import.

chessgeek.com screensaver and pgn viewer - Load your favorite Portable Game Notation (*.pgn) format chess games. Runs as a screensaver on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.

Gargamella WinBoard chess engine - Gargamella is a new Italian winboard chess engine. A free download is available. There are some theory pages about computer chess programming.

KChess Elite - Full featured chess playing program for beginners and experts. Play by e-mail, analyse variations, and PGN capability.

Green Light Chess - Free program that plays chess, either with its own graphical interface, or using Tim Mann's Winboard program. Estimated ELO 2300.

E.T.Chess's web page - A simple DOS freeware chess program that plays around 2000 Elo and that comments your playing style in a quite irritating way

Victorian Chess Pages - This page has demo versions of several chess related programs written by Fide Master and ex Australian correspondence champion Bill Jordan.

ANS Forth Chess - Very simple, free chess program written in ANS Forth, by Jeff Fox of UltraTechnology.

KingShine OpenGL Chess Board - KingShine is a 3d openGL chess board, featuring selectable chess sets, boards and skins.

Cheops - Free, open-source chess software written in C++. Includes extensive documentation on the program structure.

Parmen's Page - Free game: 3D chess on Spock's board - plays 2D (classic) also.

Delfi - Delfi 2 is a freeware Winboard chess engine, designed to emulate the human chess play. Delfi uses a complex evaluation function to analyze the position, to achieve a good positional play (example: it cares about good and bad bishops).

Fortress - WinBoard/XBoard chess engine that runs on Windows and Linux

Golem - WinBoard chess engine

LordKing - WinBoard chess engine

Faile - Faile is a relatively strong (expert to master strength, ~ 2050 - 2250 ELO, depending on the computer), runs with WinBoard and Xboard. Free. The source code is also available under the GNU GPL software license.

Beowulf - WinBoard and XBoard chess engine that runs on Windows, UNIX and Linux. Source code is available.

Phalanx - WinBoard and XBoard chess engine. Released under the GNU GPL free software license.

Esc - Winboard chess engine. An opening book available.

A computer chess program in python 2.0 - A GPLed, complete, but compact (< 3 kloc) chess program in Python (2.0 or later) is downloadable from the site. It has ab-search, pondering, complex evaluation, iterative deepening, and a graphical user interface. Searches around 200 nodes per sec on modern hardware.

Full ZX-81 Chess in 1K - Describes a 672 bytes program that plays chess.

Kuro5hin - Chess program by David Horne, which is run on the ZX81 with just 1k of memory.

Crafty - Download site for top-rated freeware chess program. Winboard compatible.

How to use Crafty with WinBoard - Step by step instructions on using WinBoard with Crafty.

Bob Hyatt - The Crafty father personal page.

EXchess - Freeware, WinBoard compatible chess program.

GromitChess - Freeware chess, Winboard compatible. #4 on Komputer Korner Freeware list #113.

Rebel - One of the strongest PC programs. Free version is Rebel Decade - #2 on Komputer Korner freeware list #113.

Chessmaster - The world's best selling chess program, and one of the very strongest PC/Mac chess programs.

Junior - One of the very strongest PC chess programs. Uses the Fritz/Chessbase interface.

WBEC Ridderkerk - An automatic Winboard Chess Engine competition.

SSDF rating list - See how the programs stack up in cyber-cyber combat. The top five or so are typically too close to call.

Lyapko George's WinBoard related page - Winboard continuous blitz tournament.

Official site for GNU Chess by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) - The official web site for the Free Software Foundation's chess program. This can be used as an engine for Xboard & Winboard.

GNU Chess version 4.0b5 for Apple Mac - Apple Mac port of GNU Chess.

Tim Mann's Chess Page - GNU Chess - Tim Mann's GNU page. A very useful resource for GNU Chess. It includes an extensive FAQ.

GNU Chess - Contains GNUChess Atari, Chess, Computer chess and source code of these for different platforms

HIARCS - Home page of one of the strongest chess programs. Commercial. PC & Mac versions on one CD.

Chess Mentor - Includes support, a dmeo, and prchasing information.

A Tribute to Winboard - An excellent page from a Winboard fan, that has everything from A to Z about Winboard.

The Official Winboard/Xboard/Amyboard Site - These are free chess front ends to: 120+ chess engines, Internet chess servers, PGN games on the web.

WinBoard Forum - Information and discussion about WinBoard and related topics.

Winboard-Overview - 120 Winboard engines, with tabulated features, download links. Part of a much larger computer chess site.

Winboard and Chess Engines Setup FAQ - A comprehensive FAQ answering many questions about Winboard and chess engines.

Crafty 11.14 GUI - [Freeware] Master-strength chess program, with graphic chessboard.

Virtual Chess - [Commercial $15] Grandmaster strength chess program for PowerMacs. Currently must be run from CD or top level of hard drive / RAMdisk named "VIRTUALCHESS".

Crafty Mac 18.08 text - [Freeware] Master strength chess engine, text interface only. Updated March 2001.

HIARCS 7.0 Mac - Grandmaster strength. Rated the world's strongest microcomputer program by "Selective Search" in 12/98.

Vanessa Chess - Shareware $10 Beautiful antialiased chess set, easy-to-beat levels, speech, color printing, ExaChess compatible. V2.1 posted 4/2002.

Crafty 14.11B - [Freeware] Version of Crafty with code added so that ExaChess can be used as a GUI interface and computer-computer umpire.

Sigma Chess 6.02 Lite - [Freeware] Master strength free Macintosh chess program with 3D set, prints games with diagrams, OSX compatible. Many awards, ExaChess compatible.[v. 6.02 released Sept 15 2002]

MacChess - [Freeware] Master strength freeware program, ExaChess compatible, and with English/German/Dutch/Italian versions available.

GNUChess 4.0b5 - Freeware download, expert-strength Mac chess program.

MacUpdate: ChessMate 6.3.5 - ChessMate 6.3.5 - Play chess against your computer or friend.

MacUpdate: ChessKing 1.0 - ChessKing 1.0 - Challenge a friend to a game of chess.

RChess 2.2.2 - [Freeware] Chess playing program with many easy levels for beginners to win against.

Chess++ Download link - [Freeware] A weak free Macintosh chess program - doesn't know castling or en passant.

Screamer - [Freeware] Master strength program, also works as ExaChess engine. Separate OSX, PPC and 68K versions.

Vektor3 - [Shareware $10] The OSX version of Vanessa Chess (q.v), using the Aqua interface and requiring OS X 10.1 V3.1.7 posted 10/30/02.

Hoyle Board Games (with chess) - Mac/PC CD-ROM includes chess, checkers, backgammon, 13 other games.

Chessmaster 6000 - [Commercial] CM6000 uses the senior master strength CM4000 chess engine plus many new training features. CD-ROM must be in drive to launch.,

ExaChess - Commercial version prints games in two-column format, exports RTF, etc.

Free Chess fonts - [Freeware] A download link for an archive of several chess fonts.

Chess Utrecht - [Freeware] Truetype chess font - 4th link on page is Mac download link. (c) Hans Bodlaender

Mac Chess Fonts 1.1 - [freeware] 7 Truetype fonts for Mac: Cheq, Chess Berlin, Chess Marroquin, Chess Maya, Smart Regular, Tasc Chess Figurine, Traveller Standard (also Cheq PostScript).

Nørresundby Chess Fonts - Almost every free Mac chess font available (with pictures) - part of a very comprehensive (mainly PC) chess publishing site.

Sigma Chess - [Shareware-$15] Prints games to printer or web (as HTML) in two-column format with annotations and color diagrams.

Fonts: Alpine - [Commercial] Three chess fonts for Macintosh (Truetype and PostScript): Linares, Hastings, Zurich.

Vanessa Chess - [Shareware-$10] Prints games to printer or web (as HTML) in two-column format with annotations and color diagrams.

Vektor3 - [Shareware-$10] Prints games to printer or web (HTML) in two columns with annotations and color diagrams. Requires OSX.

ChessWriter - [Freeware] Software for editing/publishing/studying chess (it does not play chess).

ChessBase 1.1 Mac - (Under "Macintosh Corner" at this link) A very capable chess database.

BOOKUP Mac - [Commercial] Chess database program (available on Mac and PC)

MacPGN - [Shareware] A program for displaying games from PGN databases.

PGNTalk - [Shareware] Reads chess databases in PGN format, lets you play over games. Will read the games out loud.

Essentia - [Commercial-$74] 1 million chess games on CD-ROM, with included database browser, various freeware Mac chess software.

ExaChess - [Shareware] Reads/writes chess game databases in ChessBase, NICBase, PGN, EPD and ExaChess formats. Supports seven "plug-in" chess engines.

Fixation 1.41 - [Freeware] Graphic interface for Internet chess servers. Does not require Power Macintosh.

Internet Chess Club - Macintosh Interfaces for the ICC - Fixation and Internet Chess for the Macintosh

HyperNetwork CHESS - [Shareware] Play computer, or humans via modem or network.

Internet Chess for Macintosh - Interface for the commercial "Internet Chess Club" server (ICC)

Fixation - [freeware] Client which lets you access the ICC, FICS, USCL and chess.net chess servers. Carbonized to run both on OSX and earlier systems.

Fixation Chess Sets - Traditional pieces you can use, with how-to.

OTChess 1.5.2 - [Shareware $5] [Download link] Peer-Peer internet chess game.

MacICC - [Freeware] Beta version of a Mac interface for FICS

Chess On the Web - A guide to Web-based chess servers - Java based sites where Mac users only require Netscape/IE Explorer to play. This guide recommends Excite.

Craig Knelsen's Online Chess Links - Links and descriptions for 11 sites by the author of Fixation 2.0.

PowerICS - [Freeware] Graphical interface for the free internet chess servers.

Chessic 1.1 - Freeware OSX interface for the Internet Chess Club (ICC)

ChessWorks - Multiplayer chess game that is playable over the internet or a LAN. Can be played on Mac OS 8 - 9, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems.

Jin - Java chess client for ICC and FICS. Works on OS X only, not classic.

Chess Club Manager - Macintosh software for school chess clubs. Tutorials and club management.

ChessEvent - [Freeware/commercial] Software for tournament directors (Macintosh only)

ATPM Chess Roundup - Review/ratings of 5 free Macintosh chess programs: Sigma Chess(Excellent), MacChess (Very Nice), ChessWorks (Good), GNUChess (Okay), Vampire Chess (Rotten)

Chess And Your Macintosh - This Mac Observer article discusses software for learning chess, playing chess over the internet, and free chess-playing programs.

More On Mac Chess - Followup to "Chess and Your Macintosh" - discusses game collections, software, chess database, starting sites.

MacChess 4.0 Review - by The Game Guys in My Mac Online

ATPM: Mac Chess Downloads - Review of Sigma Chess Lite 5.12, Vanessa Chess 2.01, with tournament results.

ExaChess vs. ChessBase - Virginia Chess Federation review compares these two Mac chess databases, favors ExaChess

Chessmaster 6000 Review at MacReview - 1 page review with many screenshots, rating

Chessmaster 6000 review at Mac Gamer's Ledge - About a two page review - thumbnail screenshots link to large screenshots.

Archives at Info-Mac - Use the search facility, keyword "chess". Over 40 downloadable chess software files are here.

Mac Game Database: Chess - Thirteen Mac chess programs, with screenshots, descriptions, links.

The Mac Chess Page - Software descriptions and download links, chess files in Mac format, other chess links.

Chess Software at Board Game Central - 9 Macintosh chess software links with 3-line descriptions.

Apple 3rd party product directory - Search this directory for the keyword: "chess" - 17+ Mac chess products

Chess Workouts© - Commercial: Intermediate lessons - 4 volumes at $16 each: (1) Tactical (2) Checkmate (3) Ending (4) Opening

Your First Lessons in Chess© - Commercial - Introductory tutorial on disk - $20

Chess Mates - [Commercial - $19] Teaches rules, elementary tactics, and provides graduated opponent to ages 9+ with animation, digitized voice.

Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess - $9.95 - ages 10 and up - good for beginners and intermediate players.

List of internet chess server clients - FICS's list of interfaces supporting FICS.

Winboard/Xboard - An interface supporting ICC, FICS, chess.net and other ICS based servers. A rather old, practically legendary interface - still the most popular FICS interface. Doubles as a PGN viewer, a chess engine front end and a chess engine interface to the servers. GPL, Winboard - Windows only, Xboard - Unix/Linux.

Chess Client - A rather old but still fairly used interface for FICS and ICC. Freeware, Windows only.

A tribute to Winboard - One user's reasons why Winboard is his favorite chess server client.

Eboard - An interface for FICS. Quite featureful. GPL, Unix/Linux only.

Jin - A Java application (not an Applet) interface for ICC and FICS. GPL, Platform independent.

Blitzin interface for ICC - The Internet Chess Club's excellent proprietary client. Freeware, Windows only.

Checkmate! interface for the Free Internet Chess Server - A client for playing chess on internet chess servers like FICS. A relatively new client with several interesting features. Freeware, Windows only

JavaBoard for FICS - A Java Applet allowing to play on the Free Internet Chess Server. Not very featureful, but gets the job done if you can't install an interface. Freeware, Platform independent.

Icarus - A very featureful and polished interface for ICC. Freeware, Windows only.

Fixation - A nice, recently revived interface for ICC, FICS, USCL and chess.net (limited support). Freeware, Macintosh only (classic and OS X).

Chessic - A very pretty looking interface for ICC. Freeware, Mac OS X only.

Knights Chess Interface - Knights is a relatively new graphical chess interface for KDE. It is, however, already quite featureful and very nice looking. Doubles as a chess engine front end. GPL, Unix (KDE) only.

NetBlitz - Interface for direct network and internet playing.

SLICS - A fairly old and no longer developed interface. Not very pretty, but very fast and is quite featureful. Shareware, Windows only (including 3.1)

Shit My Queen - You can chat online and play chess using free client program.

Free Downloadable Nalimov tablebases - Free Downloadable Nalimov tablebases from the Crafty FTP site

Nalimov Tablebase Server - Online query of the server. All 3,4, and 5 piece endgames are available. For programmers; the service is also accessible from within your own application.

A guide to endgame tablebases. - Answers common questions regarding the use of endgame tablebases.

Chess Program Reviews - Reviews many commercial chess software packages. The site also contains book suggestions and software tips.

ChessReviews - Reviews of software and other products.

Chess Geek - Reviews popular chess software.

Chess For Less Web Site - [Commercial] Home of Essentia, Master Chess, other large, cheap databases of chess games.

Bookup - Chess database program.

Rob Weir's ChessBase Utilities - Rob Weir's ChessBase Utilities

ChessBase USA - American ChessBase site. ChessBase is a chess database program. The site also includes news and information.

KenChess Home Page - Software program is a database that users create by importing PGN files. Openings database and correspondence games saved in database. Advanced options for correspondence game setup. Create databases, easy query, sort finds make finding games easy and fast.

Deska - A program for use with Crafty that allows PGN file viewing, use with analysis programs, games searches, and gameplay.

ChessPad - A free chess database program for Windows 95 and NT. Includes download, change log, and information on how to use Crafty as chess engine with ChessPad.

SlipperyParrot.Com Chess Databases - SlipperyParrot.Com provides the world's largest and most complete chess databases and database software.

Scid - Free chess database for Windows and Unix

Problemiste - (Freeware, PC) Problemiste is a freeware program entirely dedicated to the chess problem: Solves orthodox chess problems: direct mates, helpmates, selfmates from 2 up to 6 moves, Writes and prints the solutions with many options, Prints diagrams using your Truetype fonts, Manages archives which can contain thousands of problems.

CHEST - (Freeware, Unix/Windows , source code) CHEST solves non-trivial orthodox mate problems, selfmates, helpmates, and stalemates. Fairy chess is not supported.

Euclide - Solves orthodox proof game problems.

Retractor - (Freeware, Win95/NT) Retractor is a program for Retrograde Analysis chess problems. It allows one to set up a position and play backwards from it.

VKSACH - (freeware) program for composing and solving fairy chess problems by Vaclav Kotesovec. In Czech.

Natch - (freeware, 386+, DOS/Linux) Solves retrograde problems - e.g., "how did this game go?"

MateMaster - [Shareware] Mate solver for Win95/Win98/WinNT.

Popeye - (Freeware, Unix/DOS, source available) You enter a (fairy-) chess-position and a stipulation, Popeye tries to solve this (fairy-) chess position.

EGChessPro - Freeware program that helps to compose, to solve and to store endgames studies and chess problems with FEN, EPD and PGN formats. It converts Windows programs that admit these formats in graphical interfaces for Crafty, Popeye and Chest.

chessgeek.com puzzles - Solve some online puzzles

Mater - (Freeware, DOS, source code) Solves orthodox direct mates, emphasizes clear code at expense of speed.

Explorer - Windows program for solving chess problems - Mates, Self Mates, Helpmates

WinChloe - [ Commercial-200 Euros] Solves chess/fairychess problems with up to 20 stipulations, 100 aims, 700 fairy pieces, 500 fairy conditions.

PocketChess 1.2a for Epoch - [Freeware] Greyscale set, move list.

PocketChess 1.0 for Royal DaVinci - [Freeware] Chess-playing program, black & white with 8 levels.

ChessReviews.com - Reviews of 6 PDA chess programs: For Palm: Chess Tiger, Chess Genius, PalmChess and Chess Pad, For PocketPC: Pocket Fritz, Pocket Grandmaster.

Little Monsters - Article on chess-playing programs for Palm and PocketPC, discusses Chess Genius, Chess Tiger, Pocket Fritz.

Chess in Your Palm, Chess in Your Pocket - About.com's description of the strongest PDA chess software.

Mobile Chess games by VEL Technologies - Interactive chess games and puzzles for BREW phones, PALM, PocketPC, RIM Blackberry and other advanced mobile devices.

Chess Programs for Palm OS and Pocket PC - an Ezine review of 7 Palm chess programs. Those that also run on Pocket PC are noted.

Chess Tiger 15.0 for Palm - [Commercial - $20] The strongest Palm chess program, color/greyscale, reads/writes PGN. Uses 295Kb RAM [updated 12/22/2002].

Chess Timer for Palm - Utility for the Palm line of devices which replaces a mechanical chess timer.

ChessGenius 1.6 for Palm - [Commercial -$25] World chess champion engine, color/greyscale, reads PGN, saves games, play over infrared link. Uses 83Kb RAM [updated 12/6/2002].

ChessPad - [Shareware $25] Reads/Writes chess games in PGN format. Does NOT play chess itself - it lets you play over games.

Chromagames 1.4 - [Shareware-$20] Chess, checkers, and backgammon in one 198kb package. Greyscale/color display.[Updated 12/12/2002]

Double Chess - [Shareware-$15] Plays chess against you, includes double-board option.

Palm Chess Client - [Freeware] Play chess on the Internet Chess Servers (FICS/ICC) with your PDA.

PalmChess - Chess Database for PalmPilot (different from PalmChess for WinCE) like ChessPad.

PocketChess Deluxe 2.5 - [Shareware - $25] Full featured chess for Palm with color, PGN, infrared, variation support, 3000 game database (234Kb).

Chess Tiger 14.5 vs Chess Genius 1.3 - A USCF Life Master reports on a 26-game match between these Palm programs.

Chess Tiger for Palm Handhelds - Review of Chess Tiger chess-playing program.

Chess on the Palm OS - Review of Chess Genius 1.3 and PocketChess 2.2.

PocketChess 2.0 vs. Chess Genius 1.2 - A report by Toby Robison about a seven game match between these two chess programs, at various time controls.

Chessmaster 1.5.3 for Palm - - [Commercial - $19] Configurable oppoonents, Color/greyscale, uses 342 Kb RAM [updated 12/24/2002]

OpenChess Beta2 - [Free] Port of GNUChess to Palm [revised 12/24/2002]

CEBoard : pgn viewer/writer for Pocket PC - CEBoard is a Windows CE application made to enter and view chess games on a Palm Size PC.

ChessGenius 1.1 for WinCE - [Commercial - $25] World Champion chess engine, 128K hash tables, 130 KB [Updated 10/19/2001].

Graduate Chess - [Shareware-$24] Chess tutorial/trainer, PGN support.

Midnight Chess - $15 shareware for WinCE1.0. 35 levels, for beginning and advanced player.

PalmChess 2.0 - [Commercial - $30] Chess for WinCE 2.0. Downloadable demo.

Pocket Chess Data - See screenshots of 11 PocketPC chess programs side by side.

Pocket ChessPartner - [Shareware-$15] Color chess-playing program with PGN support.

PocketGrandmaster - Fully featured and strong chessprogram for PocketPC. Amateur World Champion 2001.

PocketChess for WinCE - [Shareware-$15] Greyscale set, move list, captured list.

PocketFritz for WinCE - [Commercial - $50] Sold by ChessBase, includes database features (500 Kb).

Mobile Chess 2.0 - [Shareware-$25] Plays chess and serves as interface to the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS).

Palm vs. PocketPC - A Chess Duel - Review of PocketGrandmaster (the PocketPC version of Gromit Chess) on the PDAGold site.

The GM in your shirt pocket - Article on Pocket Fritz for WinCE, written by the publisher.

Windows TD - Commercial software for pairing Swiss and round robin tournaments.

Swiss Perfect - Commercial program for Swiss and round robin tournaments - pairing, rating, and other features.

Swiss Pairing Software Comparison - A brief comparison of Swiss Perfect, Swiss-Sys, and Windows TD

Chess pairing program. - This Windows-based program is for free and has been available in the Swedish language on the site www.schacknyheter.com for several years ...

Chess software - Professional Chess Software (Swiss Perfect) for running tournaments etc.

TwinFeats Software Simple Swiss Pairing Engine - Java source code for simple swiss pairing engine

Swis-Sys - Pairing software for swiss system and round robin tournaments.

Sevilla - A Windows tournament management program for Chess and other sports. Supports various tournament systems, like Round Robin, Swiss, Keizer, and TPR.

WebChess Designer - The official guide to a graphical editing tool for creating chess-related Web pages.

Czech - HTML Generator for Chess Games - Download a trial version of Czech, a program that will generate HTML for chess games under Win95/98/2K/NT.

Art and Applets in Chess - This site demonstrates a Java Applet that is useful for illustrating chess games on web pages. The applet adds less than 10 kbytes to a page.

ChessViewer - Java applet to display chess games from PGN input

PGN to JS - HTML-Tool to generate chess-websites with diagrams and replayable moves using Javascript. Options for solitaire chess scoring and fairy chess.

Palview - HTML/Javascript generator that takes a PGN file and makes it a playable annotated game on your web page.

LT-PGN-Viewer - Free javascript portable game notation viewer especially designed for the use in webpages.

GameDev.net -- Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started - The first article in a six-part series about programming computers to play chess, and by extension other similar strategy games of perfect information.

Computer Chess Programming - Reference material, programming techniques, endgame databases, and computer game research for chess programming.

The Anatomy of Chess Programs - An introduction to how computers play chess.

ICCA - The International Computer Chess Association promotes computer chess programming, through its journal and tournaments.

14.3 Computer Chess - A chapter from a book on programming chess, emphasizing parallel processing.

Chessopolis: Computer Chess - 45 links to information on computer chess programming (bottom section of this web page)

Yellow Bishop Computer Chess Center - 79 articles on computer chess programming, in Postscript format

Computer chess / GNU chess, chess programming - GNUChess programming with GNU versions for Atari, Mac, Windows, Unix. Also contains other games that are using chess programming techniques. Java, C, C++ source code included for all games.

Nørresundby Chess Club - 54+ well-organized links. Chess diagram utilities, chess fonts, chess playing programs, chess games.

Chessopolis Software Links - Over 40 links to chess software.

Chess Software at About.com - 13 Chess Software links

chesstown - Links to chess and computerchess sites,play online chess,download of shareware chess playing software and utilities, quality games,databese and download possibilities

Frank`s Chess Page - Pages about free amateur chess programs.

TOP CHESS Games, Rated by BlueGem7000 - TOP CHESS FREE Downloads. Fritz, Chessmaster, Blitzin, Rebel, Winboard, Crafty . lessons, board sets, Many Free downloads.

Bishops, A Chess Variant - Bishops is a new, unique four player Chess Variant. Take your King "off" the board with the "Bishops" rule and enter a new realm of Chess play.

Cardinal Super Chess & Super Checkers - Variant with new piece. Features description of game, online version, and history.

ChessNex - Chess on a ten by ten board with two new types of pieces as well as new types of movement.

Chexx - A 2-6 player chess variant for a stand alone computer.

Circular Chess - Introducing a new variation on chess using a circular board that adds a few new aspects to traditional strategies. Complete rules and a free downloadable demo program are available.

3D 4 Cubed Chess - Play 3D chess on 4 levels of 4x4. A physical game is available, as well as Windows shareware and free demos.

Edgechess - Download a variant of Chess.

Feudal - A Review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Feudal (1967). In this chess variant, the players maneuver pieces in an attempt to capture their opponent's. Feudal replaces the pieces from chess with the King, Prince, Duke, Knights, Sergeants, Pikemen, Squires and Archers. Like chess, each piece has a particular manner in which it is allowed to move.

Forchess - Get free instructions to this four handed version of chess that uses a single normal chess board and two sets of normal chess pieces.

Gogol - Played on a chessboard between two players, having one king and eight pawns each. Each player seeks to capture the opponent´s king, or to reach the last rank with his own.

Infinite Chess - The traditional rules of chess on a figure eight board.

MetaChess 3-D - A three-dimensional chess game. Site includes rules, screen shots, news, and technical information.

Millennium Chess - Chess variant with a board fifteen columns wide and several rule changes.

Millennium 3D Chess - Millennium 3D chess is a very playable three dimensional chess (8x8x3) variant based on traditional 2D chess rules. Includes rules and commentary.

Omega Chess - Omega Chess revolutionizes the game of chess. Playing Omega Chess will improve your chess skills and open your style of play.

4PlayerChess - Played by 4 players in three different ways.

PowerChess - A new chess variant played on a 8x8 board but with 66 squares, by Gerd P. Degens, Germany.

RPGchess - Variation of chess inspired by the role playing game Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.

Star Trek Tri-D Chess - The homepage for Federation Standard Tri-D Chess, the modern version of Star Trek Tridimensional chess. Includes partial rules, notation, sample game and ordering information for the booklet (with board construction information.)

Superlative Board Game - Uses chess pieces on a special board, and dice. Features rules.

Transcendental Chess - A variant of chess where the back row of pieces is set up randomly, with bishops on opposite colors.

Transform Board Game - To win the game there have to be at least two Kings Cubes on the playing board and the first player to land his kings cube on the MK square wins the game.

TuCanChess - New chess game with extra pieces on 10x10 board. By Chesswood Games

World War Chess - Modern military chess variant with a free Windows computer game download.

Z-Chess International - Newsletter and rules about a combination game of GLE'X and conventional chess, played hexagonally in a fashion in which neither player starts with a disadvantage.

Arimaa - A race-type game in which two opposing teams are trying to out maneuver one another to be the first to reach the opponent's goal line. All played with a chess set.

Chesh Rules - Features rules and pictures of board for 3-player variant. From an idea of D. R. Hofstadter, exposed in "Le ton beau de Marot".

All 4-piece suicide tablebases - A web interface to the complete 4-piece suicide tablebases. Features both 'browse' and 'exercise' mode.

First Unofficial Losing Chess World Championship - Final results and downloadable games of the tournament held July 26-29 2001, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Giveaway Chess - Extensive information about rules of giveaway chess as well as rule variants and links.

Strategy Pages for Loser's/Losing Chess - Opening strategy, forced mates, middlegame strategy, and endgame strategy for the game of suicide chess.

Suicide Chess Problems - A collection of problems and the solutions.

Chess Variant Applets - One player chess variant java applets of a large number of games but not of high difficulty. These works of Dr. Ed Friedlander recently became dual-published as a section of The Chess Variant Pages as well.

The Chess Variant Pages - Comprehensive, general site with downloads, rules, information, histories and links for a large number of chess variants.

Zillions of Games: Chess Variants - Collection of downloads with game descriptions and screenshots.

Chess Variants - Information and rules about several chess variants.

Color Coded Chess And Puzzles - Contains four-player chess games as well as checkers, puzzles and manalas.

3-D Chess Federation - A place for those who are especially interested in 3-D (by contrast to ordinary 2-D) chess variants. Offers information, rules, downloads, photos and diagrams.

The Symmetrical Chess Collection - Contains games for download and links.

Bughouse.net - Rules, openings, strategy, rankings, and tournaments for a chess game in which two boards are used and four people can play.

BugAssistant - A BPGN viewer that can search game databases for games with matching positions, including 20,000 games for download.

Bughouse Chess - Bughouse in java, for beginners.

Bughouse Games - Site offers several bughouse games as well as links to all major bughouse sites on the net.

Bughouse Strategy - Information and advice about bughouse strategy, as well as terminology.

Ebenfelt's Bughouse Page - Bughouse rules, strategy, Internet play information, and bughouse player information.

Flesh's Bughouse Page - Funny bughouse player profiles and interviews, bughouse news (although outdated), and bughouse book information.

NonVi Games - Makers of Double Chess, a program for PalmOS and Windows for playing bughouse and regular chess. Includes product information and demos.

Tandem Chess and Bughouse - Bughouse rules and strategy, as well as information about playing by email.

Bughouse in Europe - Information about bughouse and bughouse gatherings in Europe.

Laws of Bughouse Chess - Official bughouse laws, ratified by the World Bughouse Network.

Bughouse Strategy from Errant Fischer - Top ten ways to tell you have a bad bughouse partner, and other strategy hints and annotated bughouse games.

Thief - A graphical interface for playing bughouse on internet chess servers.

Ultimate Bughouse Database - A bughouse database of all bughouse games played on Free Internet Chess Server.

Bughouse Records - The current and all-time bughouse records for Free Internet Chess Server.

Sunsetter Bughouse Engine - A program that plays chess and crazyhouse chess (single board bughouse) on internet chess servers, released under the GPL.

Sjeng Bughouse Engine - An attempt to create a bughouse and crazyhouse playing program that can attain a level comparable to the best human players.

Bughouse for Zillions - Turn-based bughouse plugin for Zillions of Games, for 2 and 4 players, with several variants.

Kriegspiel - Information about the origin and the rules of Kriegspiel, as well as information about Internet play.

Kriegspiel - A java applet allowing one player Kriegspiel.

Traditional Texts on Chess - Overview of and review of a selection of chess books.

Chess Books - A selection of chess books from Amazon.com.

The Origin of Chess - Online chess book about the origins of chess, written by Sam Sloan.

Chess Composition Books - Adobe Acrobat editions of old, public-domain books on chess problems and composition.

Chess Informant - Informants are chess books in print and on CD of recent games. Most are annotated by top players.

ChessBooks.org - Selection of chess books with links for purchasing at online suppliers.

Chess World - Shop for chess books and chess related items. Solve chess problems and puzzles.

Caissa's Chess Shop - Selection of chess related books.

The Chess Cafe - Book reviews, endgame studies, and columns on various chess topics.

Chess Digest, Inc. - Offers a wide selection of chess books and periodicals.

Keverel Chess Books - Supplies chess books and chess equipment.

First Class Chess - Online Catalogue - Books, magazines and other chess related material.

Chess Central - Features a selection of free chess software, e-books and games to download. Chess players will also find free chess articles, puzzles, screen savers,and chess games to download.

John's Chessbook Reviews - Find reviews and other information to help in choosing either a book, a CD ROM, or a software package

Seagaard - Chess Review - Noted reviewer looks at chess books and software. Makes independent reviews on publishers, authors and chess-stores.

Chess Kamikaze Book Review - The chess book reviews are divided into categories by skill level as well as by opening theory. Recommendations are made on books that are instructional for the average player.

Book of Chess Openings - Color coded chart categorizes all chess openings in the book of chess openings.

ChessSolutions - Offers two free e-books.One is a manual designed for beginning to intermediate chess players, the other is a manual designed for intermediate to advanced chess players.

Karel Mokry Chess Bookshop - Located in the Czech Republic this shop has a wide selection of items in its online stock. Find new, used, old and rare chess books and magazines.

Reviews - Find chess book reviews from a staff composed of experienced and reflective amateurs who know what it is that you are looking for in a book review.

Social Correspondence Chess Assosciation - Social Correspondence Chess Assosciation, UK club with more than 40 years experience of organising correspondence chess tournaments now reviews chess books and chess CDs.

Book and CD Reviews - International Email Chess Group currently review chess books and CDs from many of the worlds leading publishers.

Chess Book and Software Reviews - Reviews of chess related books, software, computers and videos.

ChessReviews.com - Chess software tips and reviews - databases, playing programs and tutorials are all here.

Fischer - Spassky E-mail Chess - An email chess service.

Schaak - Games from the CC-booklet Schaak are available both in Chessbase and NIC format.

Postcard Chess - Play correspondence chess with automatic internet chess postcards.

The Campbell Report - Site on correspondence chess by CC-player J. F. Campbell. Also regular columns on opening theory and general CC play by Mark Morss.

Net-chess.com - Correspondence chess with strict time controls.

Correspondence Chess Place - Portal dealing with good CC links.

SoundChess - An email chess application. No login required.

Atlantic Chess - Play Free, Visual correspondence chess. Practice board, Automatic PGN, game history review, and simple point-and-click operation.

Chess Mail - Commercial magazine with chess news, articles, and game analyzations.

Stephan Busemann's Correspondence Chess Page - Stephan Busemann is CC-GM and has among other things a nice summary of the discussion on the usage of computer programs in CC play.

Echess - Correspondence chess service that makes it possible to play chess through email.

International Email Chess Club - Get acquainted with chess-by-email.

Frederic Fricot Chess - Devoted to chess by email.

Universal Email Chess Club - Email chess club open to all players who want to participate. It is both spanish and english speaking.

Correspondence Chess Message Board - Active message board on CC related discussions.

Egbert Boesenberg's Chess Homepage - A private homepage of a CC player with some information on his current games and his work as TD.

Barnet Chess Club Game Server - Chess by email allowing you to email the latest position and invite your friends to a board by email.

Chess by radio - Connecting amateur radio operators to play chess by ham radio.

Yahoo Groups : Chessfun - A egroup to find opponents for email chess games. All level of players welcome but the list is geared more towards beginner to intermediate level of players.

ChessWorld.net - Web based play-by-email server featuring over 2500 members from over 100 countries. Features include tournaments, leagues, forums, voting, and annotated games.

Email Chess and Chess Art - Mostly dedicated to play-by-email chess. Also features images of chess in art, advertising, and postage stamps.

PlayChess - Online chess tournaments and games. Slow games (one day per move). Features online board, email notification, ratings, annotated games, and PGN downloads.

BeholderBoard Virtual Chess - Play online Chess with another person. Each player will be notified by email when it is their turn to move.

Chess-Friends - A place to find email chess partners for free.

IECG Newsletter - Official chess newsletter of the International Email Chess Group.

British Federation for Correspondence Chess - Includes tournament information, recent match information, and an events calendar.

International Correspondence Chess Federation - Includes ratings, tables, rules, and links.

BCCA - Offers a chess recorder program, chess information, and humor.

International Correspondence Chess Federation - US - Offers tournament information, ranks, links, and rules.

Scottish Correspondence Chess Association - Contains downloads, a message board, and puzzles.

International Email Chess Group - Includes a newsletter, forum, and rules.

World Correspondence Chess Federation - Organization designed to help chess players play across the internet.

Correspondence Chess League of Australia - News, links, scores and games, and membership information.

US Chess Live - Includes news, rules, events, and a FAQ.

APCT -- American Postal Chess Tournaments - Tournament information, rules, and ratings.

Ralph Marconi's Chess Page - Contains match information.

Chess: Game of Champions - Chess biographies, dictionary, links, world champions, and games.

IM Igor Khmelnitsky - Chess Coach - Chess news, lessons, book reviews, puzzles, software, and evaluation tests.

Information on chess grandmasters - Information about some of the best chess players of all time and many game transcripts.

King's Gambit - Some game and tournament reports by Thomas Johansson.

David Howell Chess Site - The site of one of the highest rated British chess players in the Under-20 age group.

Roman Jiganchine - Annotated games, photos from chess events, articles, and interesting links.

SeekR's Chess Site - A short how to, and a bunch of game histories, including a few links to a couple of game sites.

Polgarchess - Includes news, photo gallery, career highlights, chess shop, and links.

Anjelina Belakovskaia: 3-time U.S. Womens Champion - Essays, her games, and a biography about her are included.

US Chess Federation: Players Gallery: WGM Angelina Belakovskaia - Includes short biography and descriptions of her accomplishments.

Ghetto Superstar: Maurice Ashley - Features a SportsJones article about a 9 year old Harlem chess grandmaster.

Shakmaty Bereolos - The Official Chess Site of Peter Bereolos.

Brian vs. Jake - Personal chess page tracking the games of Brian Bien against Jake Borsenik.

Nonna Karakashyan's Chess Page - Includes compositions, FIDE rules, games with a chess program, problems, and humor. Registration for chess classes in SchoolPlus in New Jersey is also included.

The Chesshaven - Contains chess information.

The Chess Place - Contains links, news, and tips.

Morozevich.com - Features information, games, gallery, analysis, and interviews with Alexander Morozevich.

Riccardo Andreis - Italian chess philatelic page.

Ján Golha - My works, compositions tourneys, and problem chess magazines.

Oskar van Rijswijk - With some of his chess games.

A.J.'s Chess Page(s) on A. - F. - Information about upcoming chess events. Several annotated games and chess instruction.

Alexandra Kosteniuk (WGM) - History, information, photos, games, on-line training, shop, and poems.

Vishwanathan Anand Chess Pages - News, updates and tournament coverage of the Grandmaster's games.

1,100+ Games, 1984-1998 - Click to download zip file (PGN format).

Controversy of Krush's lost move in Kasparov v. World - Commentary and links to articles on the controversy: Krush recommended a move that (many feel) would have prevented Kasparov from winning. Her move was not shown in time, and a different move was played.

Irina Krush Biography - Biography of leading Kasparov v. the world commentator Irina Krush (her move recommendations were played 53 of 57 times).

US Chess Federation: Players Gallery: Irina Krush - Biography and links.

Controltheweb: Judit Polgar - Comprehensive news, biography and links with viewable games, optimized photos and extensive articles.

Chess Goddesses: Women in Chess: Judit Polgar - Recent tournaments, brief biography, photos and links.

My Sports Hero-Judit Polgar - Description on why Judit Polgar is the hero to many people. Bios and photos included.

La Mecca Chess Encyclopedia: Polgar, Judit - Biography, career highlights age 9 to present.

Hikaru Nakamura - Offers links, history, and news.

Paul Keres - Features games, pictures, and a book about him.

Uncrowned Kings: Paul Keres - Features his games and a short description of him.

Biography of Associated Press/Reuters Journalist - USCF National Master, unorthodox openings specialist and author of dozens of chess books.

Alexei Shirov: Fire on Board (Book) - Brief biography on Shirov, book review and games from book.

1,100+ Games: 1983-1996 - Click to download zip file (PGN format).

Chesswise: Career Highlights - Describes some of his achievements.

Games: 1989-1996 - Click to download .zip file in .PGN format.

Grandmaster Title: New York Times Coverage - Features "From Kings County, First Black Grandmaster." By Barbara Stewart.

Grandmaster George Koltanowski dies at age 96 - Features a description of his career.

George Koltanowski 1903-2000 - Includes career history.

1,200+ Games: 1975-1996 - Click to download zip file (PGN format).

US Chess Federation: Player Gallery: GM Yasser Seirawan - Biography, career highlights and links.

The Incredible Genius Chess Society - Yasser Seirawan defeats Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament chess play.

Chess Talk - Contains quizzes, a forum, and interviews.

Chess World Champions: Machgielis (Max) Euwe - Biography and game playable through a java applet.

Iverson Lapp on Chess: Max Euwe - Features a biography and quizzes.

Max Euwe's anniversary. - Features a 100th anniversary biography and games by him.

NYCHESSKIDS: Max Euwe - Gives a short biography on the former World Champion.

Machgielis (Max) Euwe - Includes a biography and a chronology of the events in his chess career.

Tigran Petrosian - Contains information and a biography on Tigran Petrosian.

Tigran Petrosian - Gives a description of his playing style and his mark on the history of Chess.

Blue Plaque for Howard Staunton - Awarded by the English Heritage, includes a description of the award and a biography of him.

Chess Heritage: Howard Staunton - Features a biography about him and his chess career.

The Mark of Westminster: Howard Staunton - Features a chronicle of his life.

Games by Howard Staunton - Click to download .zip file that contains some of his games in .PGN format.

NYCHESSKIDS: Vassily Smyslov - Gives a short description of him.

Interview with Smyslov - Features a question and answer session with Smyslov.

The Bobby Fischer Home Page - Includes a comprehensive game cross-reference, photos, news, brief bio, and links.

Lonnie Best: Amazing Bobby Fischer - Features an article and links to books on Fischer.

Fischer Random Chess News, Rules, Examples - Describes Fischer's invented variation of chess.

Fischer Interviewed about Sale of his Memorabilia plus Sloan Articles - Features transcripts and streaming audio (RealPlayer) of three Philippines interviews. Includes links to Fischer articles by journalist Sam Sloan.

World Chess Championship 1972: Fischer - Spassky - Gives downloadable .PGN Games and commentary from this FIDE match.

Bill Wall's Chess Master Profiles: Robert James Fischer - Features a biography that encompasses his birth through 1996.

Unofficial Rematch 1992: Fischer - Spassky (Unofficial/match) - Includes commentary and highlights from their games.

Games from 1955-1992 - Click to download zip file (.PGN format).

Robert J Fischer - Features match history (with photos), downloadable games in .PGN format, and background history of Bobby Fischer.

The Incredible Genius Chess Society - A group of chess players that believe that Bobby Fischer is the best chess player that has ever lived. With several games he has played.

Atlantic Monthly: Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame - Article detailing Bobby Fischer's history and his recent public anti-American and anti-Semitic rants. By Rene Chun.

The Telegraph: Bobby Fischer Speaks Out to Applaud Trade Centre Attacks - Information regarding Bobby Fischer's interview with a Philippine radio station in which he applauds the September 11 attacks and denounces the United States. By David Bamber and Chris Hastings.

Fide Title Tournament 1948: Botvinnik - Features downloadable .PGN Games, crosstable, and key game positions of 5-player tournament (Smyslov, Reshevsky, Keres, Euwe) held after Alekhine died holding title.

World Chess Championship 1960: Tal - Botvinnik - Provides .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions from this FIDE match.

Chess World Champions: Mikhail Botvinnik - Features a biography and game playable through a java applet.

589 Games: 1901-1939 - Click to download zip file (PGN format).

World Chess Championship 1921: Capablanca - Lasker - Includes downloadable .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions from this FIDE match.

José Raúl Capablanca - Gives details about him and his career.

Games: 1949-1992 - Click to download .zip file (.PGN format).

Thinkquest: Mikhail Tal - Features a description of him.

World Chess Championship 1960: Tal - Botvinnik - Includes downloadable .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions.

Mikhail Tal, The Game is Afoot - Description and his career up to his death in 1992.

Chess Poster: Mikhail Tal - Features a game playable through a java applet and a description of his career and playing style.

Boris Spassky - Features a quote, a description of the events in his career, and a picture.

Unofficial Rematch 1992: Fischer - Spassky - Includes commentary and highlights of rematch.

World Chess Championship 1972: Fischer - Spassky - Includes downloadable .PGN format games and commentary from this match.

Lapp on Chess: Lasker - Features a biography with related games and problems.

World Chess Championship 1894: Lasker - Steinitz - Includes downloadable .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions.

Emanual Lasker - Gives details about the great psychological chess player and mathematician Emanual Lasker

Lapp on Chess: Wilhelm Steinitz - Features a biography and a problem taken from one of his games.

World Chess Championship 1894: Lasker - Steinitz - Features downloadable .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions.

World Chess Championship 1886: Steinitz - Zukertort - Includes downloadable .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions.

William Steinitz - Gives details of the first official world chess champion

Lapp on Chess: Alekhine - Includes a biography and a problem taken from one of Alekhine's games.

Marshall: Adolf Anderssen - Biography of the famous chess master/problem composer.

Old Masters Archive: Adolf Anderssen - Description by the Tallahassee Chess Club.

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The Rematch - Features official commentary, video, and essays: The match Kasparov lost against IBM's Deep Blue.

Unlimited Challenge: Autobiography of Kasparov - Provides buying information and review of book (originally named "Child of Change").

Kasparov-Karpov World Championships - Gives commentary, games, and links for the five world championship matches between Karpov and Kasparov.

Games from 1973-1998 - Click to download zip file (.PGN format).

Kasparov-Karpov World Championship Games - Click to download zip file. (.PGN format)

Controversy of lost move in Kasparov v. World - Features commentary and article links: Lead coach for World team Irina Krush recommended a move to prevent Kasparov from winning. This move was not shown in time, a different move was played, and Kasparov won.

1996 Biography - Official biography of Kasparov from IBM Deep Blue site: history, and interview.

Sting-Kasparov: Times Square Promotional Match - Gives an article and large photos. Sting and his band play Kasparov to promote opening of chess school.

Kasparov vs. Rest Of The World - Barnet chess club provided much original analysis for the epic battle between Kasparov and the rest of the world.

Wired News - Kasparov Goes Bigger than Blue

Kasparov, Garry - Contains updates, reviews, and information about the world champion.

Kasparov Chess Match - Features Yahoo's coverage of Kasparov vs. World 1999.

2000 World Chess (Braingames) Championship: Kasparov v. Kramnik - Includes move-by-move commentary, reports, and photos.

Asia's First Chess Grandmaster - Features a biography of his Chess career and lists some of the legends about this player.

A True Story: Sultan Khan - Features biographical events summary, games, and links.

600+ Games: 1988-1996 - Click to download zip file(PGN Format).

World Chess Championship 2000: Kramnik - Kasparov - Features move-by-move commentary, reports, and photos from this Braingames match.

US Chess Hall of Fame Biography: Paul Morphy - Gives a biography of this inductee.

400 Games: 1847-1869 - Click to download zip file (.PGN format).

Paul Morphy, the Great American Chess Player - Features a biography, viewable and downloadable games, and pictures.

La Mecca - Chess Encyclopedia: Paul Morphy, First World Champion - Includes a biographical overview, photo, and links.

Biography of Alexander Alekhine - Contains biography, famous game, and .PGN games.

World Chess Championship 1927: Alekhine - Capablanca - Features .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions.

Bill Wall's Chess Master Profiles - Philidor - Features a chronology of events in his chess career.

The Game is Afoot: Philidor - Includes a description of his opening, Philidor's Defense, and a biography.

Chess Dominion - Gallery Of Champions: Anatoly Karpov - Includes a picture, a quote, and a biography about him.

Karpov Games: 1960-1998 - Click to download zip file (.PGN format).

World Chess Championship 1978: Karpov - Korchnoi - Includes PGN games and commentary from this title match.

World Chess Championships 1984-1990: Kasparov - Karpov - Features commentary, games, and links for all five world championship matches between these two.

Anatoly Karpov Unofficial Page - Features biography, matches, books, and tournaments.

Chess Life Online - News column covering events on the international chess scene as well as US chess federation news.

New in Chess - Links and news dealing with chess.

The Week in Chess - News updates about chess.

Heco - The Scotsman - An almost daily chess column by John B. Henderson with viewable games online.

Ukrainian Chess News - Chess news and updates from Ukraine.

Chess World Magazine - News about the latest of chess in the world.

Chess Express Ratings, Inc. - Provides current chess ratings and chess news.

Chess: Sports.com - Live move-by-move coverage, news, tips and analysis of major chess matches.

Pakistan Chess Player - Concentrating on global chess happenings. Includes articles, discussion board, ratings, and reviews.

Net Chess News - Chess news, games, interviews and gossip. An online chess magazine covering the world of chess.

PaChess Magazine - Includes news, games, problems, poll, downloads and an email tournament.

The Chess Oracle - International and UK chess news.

New in Chess - Chess magazine, books, CDROMs, New in Chess Yearbook, covering top level chess games and players including Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, and Michael Adams.

Digital Chess Network - Computer chess news from all around the world. A guide on how to write your own chess program and a database with games, interviews, reviews, information on chess programs, and utilities.

U.S. Chess Federation - Not-for-profit membership organization, and the governing body for chess in the United States. In addition to detailed listings, the calendar shows tournaments for the current month.

Czech Open - The world's biggest chess festival, which takes place every summer in Pardubice.

Blue King Tournament - Play chess tournaments against hundreds of other players around the world.

Kasparov vs. The World - Analysis from the World Team's game against the dominant player of our time, Garry Kasparov.

National Open Chess Festival - An annual event held in Las Vegas.

Keres Memorial Chess Tournament - Held by the British Columbia Chess Federation every year since 1976.

The World Chess Championship - Chronicles the games of the players who have fought for the title of World Chess Champion.

World Open - Results from the world's biggest open tournament.

British Chess Federation - Calendar of events in Great Britain.

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue - In-depth coverage of the rematch, won by Deep Blue.

Chess Federation of Canada - Events in each province, plus a useful chess product search facility.

Goodricke - International Open Chess Tournament held every year in Calcutta, India.

Blackpool Chess Congress - Games and photos from Britain's second strongest chess congress, featuring several grandmasters.

Continental Chess Association - Organizes chess tournaments across America, from California to New York.

Fantasy Chess - Competition based on the FIDE World Chess Championship.

Chess Events - Listings of some tournaments. Submissions of future events welcome.

4NCL - The Four Nations Chess League - Provides news, games, results and fixtures.

Dutton Chess - Professionally organized, CFC-rated Toronto chess tournaments offering large class prizes, demonstration boards, computer pairings, and individual scorebooks.

Email Tournaments - Includes the Chess World Championships, based upon an agreement between the two world chess bodies ICCF (for correspondence chess) and FIDE (for over-the-board chess).

Chess Central - Comprehensive calendar of chess tournaments in Australia.

First Saturday Tournament - Held each month in Budapest, Hungary.

Transylvania International Chess Open - Held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Hawick Chess Congress - Annual tournament held in the Scottish Borders, and of Hawick Chess Club.

Jack - Just another chess calendar - An International Chess Calendar. Jack is a self-made chess players service. You can add, modify and delete chess events as tournaments, congress, lessons, and online events.

Goodricke International Open Chess Tournament Calcutta - Information about an international GM chess tournament organized each year in Calcutta, India.

Annual American Open Chess Tournament - Chess tournament, Los Angeles, CA.

British Rapidplay Chess Championships - British Rapidplay Chess Championships to be held in Bradford, England.

Gonzaga Chess Classic - Is held in Gonzaga college, Ranelagh, Dublin.

Hoogovens Chess Tournament - Results, analysis and interviews from the renowned Dutch tournament.

Northern Virginia Open - Annual event held in Alexandria.

About Chess.com - A wealth of chess resources.

Chessopolis - Directory of chess related information on the internet.

StartChess: The Chess Portal - Some categories include books, people, software, history, newsgroups, and organizations.

Chess Lab - An online chess database of 2 million games.

BritWeb - Database of UK Chess and chess book links.

Mecca Chess Encyclopedia - Chess encyclopedia with information about chess players, events, and openings.

The International ChessSite - Personal pages, openings, databases, federations, and programs.

Steve Pribut's Chess Page - Links to chess sites and resources, including software, chess servers, and frequently asked questions.

The Chess Report - A portal with chess links on the internet. It is updated daily with links to chess news from all of the world.

Clink - A large collection of chess links. You can add your favourite chess site and suggest new categories.

ChessAward - The official ChessAward website.

Caissa Cafe - Chess news, search engine, software, and chess games.

The Chess Portal - A comprehensive, sorted and commented link collection to chess information.

Chesstown - Download of chess programs for different platforms. Links to sites related to chess and computerchess. Playing.

ChessCollect - Collection with over 500,000 chess games in PGN format provided by Dusan Stamenkovic.

ChessGuide - Categorized links to rules, history, graphics, ratings, books, articles, matches, software, forums, news, sets, playsites, leagues, and tournaments.

Steven Cottingham Chess - A chess portal by Dr. Steven E. Cottingham.

Chess History Center - Service center for serious chess historians, clearinghouse of research requests and index to web resources.

Goddess Chess - Classical chess history, exploring its multidimensionality and featuring prominent women in chess.

Chess History - Chess history timeline for the last 1500 years, with information on events in the game's evolution.

On The Origin Of Chess - A group of articles with a variety of views regarding the origin or chess.

Chess Archeology - Includes photos and articles about chess and its history.

The Origin of Chess - An online book by Sam Sloan arguing that chess originated in China, not India.

ChessDryad - Devoted to the history of California chess. Includes thousands of games for download, articles, and photographs.

US Chess History - Articles by the US Chess Hall of Fame about the history of chess in the United States.

The Chess Network - Everything you need to know to play chess.

History Of Chess - Dr. Victor Keats is a bibliophile of Hebrew and other antiquarian chess books. Includes reviews, links, and purchase information.

Sarah's Serendipitous Chess Page - Includes history, games, pictures, and links.

Chess Tournament and Match History - A timeline of major matches and tournaments in chess history with crosstables and games in pgn format for free download. Lists of world records.

Traditional Games - Dedicated to numerous traditional board games in the chess family.

The BDS Website - Gives information about the British Chess Problem Society and the British Chess Solving Championship.

Classic Chess Problems - Two- and three-move chess problems by problem composers.

Chess Composition Microweb - Features problems from simple two movers to complicated compositions taken from positions in real games.

Chess Problem Server - Organized chess problem archive that allows viewing in GIF and ASCII format.

Chess Puzzles by Grand Masters - Includes a range of problems found in games played by grandmasters. Both modern and classic games are listed.

Manolis Stratakis's Chess Problems Page - Unusual and classic chess problems, studies, spectacular openings, checkmates, and a chess problem competition are included.

Mat Plus - Graphical Chess problems published by the Yugoslav Chess Problemists Society.

Dean's Chess Problem Site - Chess problems and mates categorized with hints. Categories include best move in the Endgame and mate in 1 or more moves.

Checkmates.com - Features graphical chess problems with solutions, viewable through a java applet or HTML.

Patrick Corn's Chess Problems - Sixteen various chess problems and solutions, with text descriptions of the positions.

Vincent's Chess Problems - Features graphical chess problems, with solutions, as well as a few giveaway chess problems. For both beginners and advanced players.

The Chess Examiner - Includes checkmate problems, quotes, and fun with chess terms.

Stanislav Vokal's Chess Compositions - Includes categorized, graphical chess problems, with solutions and information about their origins.

Thorsten Zirkwitz - My Problem Chess Pages - Includes problems and news.

Adam's Chess Puzzles - Sets of 12 problems for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players, in GIF format.

Jon Levitt's Chess Pages - Problems, talent tests, and selected games by British Grandmaster Jon Levitt.

Egalitarian Attacks - A Riddle with Chess pieces. Solving it demands placing on a board combinations of two or more pieces so that all attack the same amount of free squares.

The Gorfo Pages - Problems composed by Göran Forslund that are released once a month. Other problems sources recommended by the author are listed.

132 Studies and Problems - Collection of problems in GIF format from newspapers and magazines.

Chess Puzzles - Test-yourself puzzles and solutions from tournament games. Purchase sets of puzzles delivered through email.

The Retrograde Analysis Corner - Archive of chess problems where the legality of the position is a key element.

Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities - Chess problems with narrative about how each came about and what really happened after the position. For advanced players.

Erich's Chess Page - Problems listed by season taken from various sources including games by the author. Can be used by all players.

DHS Chess Problems - Eight problems with ideas such as Selfmate and Helpmate implemented. A description of notation is included.

Chess Problems and Puzzles: Practice Your Tactics - Problems rated "The Challenge" and "The Basics" for advanced and beginners respectively. Gives no solutions and has a database of games.

The Chess Enthusiast - Puzzles, annotated games, and links to other chess resources.

Problemesis - Chess problems magazine in English and French with news, articles, problem contests, a chess glossary, and links.

Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day - Features levels of difficulties in problems ranging from very easy (checkmate in 1) to very difficult (checkmate in 6 or more). Solutions are given the next day. Archives of problems over the last 10 days can be consulted.

Electronic editions of old books on chess problems - Old, public-domain books on chess problems, republished in Adobe Acrobat format, and made available for free.

Chess problems and variants - Udo Marks presents chess problems with diagrams and solutions. From two-movers to janus-chess, chinese chess (xiangqi) and japanese (shogi).

Artful Dodger's Chat - Message board with players from around the world.

About.com Forums - Covers a wide variety of topics such as how to improve and user-submitted games.

GameKnot Forum - Discussions about openings, news, history and other topics.

Chess Corner - General message board. Includes a forum for beginner's questions.

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