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09
Nov 2001
Chess players are really
spoiled on the Internet, for there there must be hundreds of good
chess sites available (I've personally seen dozens). Here
are eight of the best, all excellent, but all with their different
specialities.
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| Bernard
Milligan's Borders Chess Pages |
Might as well start off with my
local one. Anyone in the South of Scotland will already be
familiar with Bernard's site, with its famous House of Horrors gallery
of Borders chess players. But it's not only local news you
get here, for this site also has sections on Chessbase products,
Correspondence Chess, Chess Scotland, etc etc. Good one, Bernard.
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| The
Week In Chess |
The netzine
of The London Chess Centre, TWIC is normally my first stop for Chess
News. News, full tournament results, games to download, and
of course you're only a link away from The London Chess Centre's
online shop.
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| Braingames |
Covering more
than chess, this site includes among others: a daily classic
game; a daily prize puzzle; and a readers forum for discussing
chess-type things. You can also join a club, to play chess
online.
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| The
Internet Chess Club |
This is the
biz. Membership costs $49 per year, for which you can play
quick games (1min to 30mins is the normal spread) against people
all over the world. Fainter hearts can still enjoy kibitzing
online games between members, and an addictive feature is regular
live coverage of tournaments where members can comment in a chatroom
on the games as they progress. [The chat in a recent J. Polgar game
wandered off the subject somewhat, but we won't go into that].
Great fun.
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| FIDE
Website |
A large, crowded
site packed with info about players (all FIDE ratings etc) tournaments,
news and everything else that FIDE are involved in. The site
to go for official data. Again, you can also play online.
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| Chessbase |
No, not just
an ad for Chessbase's products. The news is better presented
than in any other site I know, and seems to be updated more often
too. The site does not try to be a chronicle of every single
tournament, but instead concentrates on stories of real interest
to followers of international chess. A Five-star site.
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| Chesslab |
The central
part of this site is a database of 2 million games which you can
search by position, player, location etc. If you're
studying an unusual opening line, this is the site.
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| Chess
Shareware |
Some free stuff
from Gambitsoft. If you're looking for a free computer program,
Gnuchess isn't bad - though naturally don't expect all the features
you'll get in one you pay for.
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