| BrainKing | From far the best website for playing chess (and other board games) in a turn-based way. Turn-based play is the Internet version of correspondence play, but much nicer to play because moves can be played directly on the boards.
Brainking offers numerous of the best chess variants : Ambiguous Chess, Losing Chess, Chessgi, Extinction Chess, Three-check Chess, Knight Relay Chess, Dark Chess, Xiangqi, shogi, and some 20 more anecdotic variants.
Free with some few restrictions versus the paying member status (which is anyway a tremendous value). Essential! |
| Chess Café | An excellent e-magazine with original columns. |
| Chess Tactics Server | Over 10000 tactical exercices to solve in time, the results establishing a rating list. This site is an excellent sparring-partner. |
| Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) | The best live chess server ; all for free, allows to play Losing Chess, Bughouse, Chessgi, Atomic Chess with the best players in the world.
Oh, and if you want you can also play boring orthodox chess there. Highly recommended! |
| Guide to the use of Computer Chess Endgame Tablebases | Excellent page, with the sole subject of thoroughly explaining how to use endgame computer tablebases up to 6 pieces. |
| Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities | The dutchman Tim Krabbé's website is a goldmine for informations about the history and beauty of chess.
Don't miss the 110 greatest moves ever played and the ultimate blunder. Highly recommended! |
