Major Chess Sites
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- Club Kasparov - A playing zone, news, analysis, events, and more
- Steve Pribut's Chess Page - Has the latest FAQ files, ratings and reviews, and chess news
- Internet Chess Library - game databases and ratings
- Chess Live On The Net - Moves explained, best games, beginner's page
- Chessopolis - World famous chess directory, also includes book and software reviews
- Chess Cafe
- Grandmaster Chess
- The Chess Variant Pages
- chess.net - Play, chat, watch and learn chess. Keep on what's going on. Basic service is free and there is a premium Gold Membership as well.
- ChessMaster - by the company that makes the Chessmaster PC games. You can download a copy of Chessmaster Online.
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Play Chess
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- Yahoo Chess - Yahoo games page, includes chess as well as many more - not fee based
- Chessed! - Free live internet chess club
- FICS - Real time chess on the internet (for free)
- ICC - Live, online chess on the internet (yearly membership fee)
- ICCF - International Correspondence Chess Federation - play chess by mail, fax and email
- PlaySite - Java-based site to play chess. Also has checkers, reversi and backgammon.
- Caissa's Web - Fee based, serves up to 2,500 live games per day
- University of Pittsburgh FTP Chess Site - Free games of all levels
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Books and Periodicals
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Archives
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Rules
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Clubs and Organizations
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Link Lists
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- About.com Chess - Check this out! Best online chess resources
- La Mecca Chess Encyclopedia - "In this site you find a lot of information about chess, chess players (images, biographies, etc.), chess events (tournament tables), Elo lists and calculation, ECO codes and, of course, thousands of links to best chess sites all over the world."
- GM Chess Link List - Very informative annotated link list
- Lars Balzer Link List - lots of links, games and even a newsletter
- Edinburgh Univ. - a complete list
HandiLinks
AltaVista
Google
Ask Jeeves
Yahoo
Hotbot
FindWhat
Lycos
4anything
VirtualLibrary
Galaxy
DejaNews
ImageSurfer
Yahooligans!
Magellan
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Discussions
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Potpourri
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