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     Sort of a cross between an online chess club and a general chess site. There is some game analysis, general instruction, a bulletin board, etc.

Ace Chess
     nice links collection

     Site devoted to chess in Alaska.

Automatons

     Brief overview of Mephisto, Ajeeb, and The Turk.

Autumn Endgame

     Serialized chess fiction.

     What may well be the best composed problem in history. Includes solution and extensive analysis & explanation.

Believe It !! - Chess records

     Miscellaneous chess records & trivia.

     Excellent site. Huge collection of articles, stories, games, humor, analysis, miscellany, etc.

     Site devoted to chess for the blind

Chess and Poker
     focuses on the game of 'Blitz Chess'. Time limits are classified for the first time, more than six in-depth never before seen strategy tables are provided, and several games

Chess Award

     Evaluates and awards online chess resources.

     Introduction to the basic rules of chess with links to Game Colony's playing site & Chess Lab online database.

ChessBetting.net
     guide for betting on chess online (with Bettson) as well as tips, news and more

     An assortment of essential links and answers to basic questions such as how to play online, find chess books, etc.

     Scholastic chess in the New York area.

     Membership site with book & software reviews, instruction, downloads, etc.

     Yahoo page for the ChessChat group. Includes archives & signup area.

     Articles & links for women's chess

Chess-City
     mostly chess links, also a newsletter and archived articles

Chess Composition Books
     Electronic editions of public domain books.

     By Juraj Lörinc. Devoted to chess composition.

     New chess forum.

     Articles, chess art, basic instruction, biography & games of all the champions. Numerous forums. This site is graphically attractive, but not the easiest to navigate.

ChessGuide
     Portal site, with categorized links to other chess sites around the net

     A few games, a discussion board, links, and classified ads for chess players.

Chess Goddesses     [site review]

     Good site by XanJena devoted to women in chess. Includes news, interviews, articles, and links.

     Nice selection of free chess theme greeting e-cards.

     Good site with games, instruction & advice, quotations & humor, book recommendations, and a computer program you can play online.

     Small collection of essential links and several files from players, events, and endings

Chess Photo Gallery
     close to one thousand chess-related photos, provided by IM,FST Jovan Petronic and Giannis Liogkas

Chesslinks Worldwide

     Links, Hall of Fame, World Champs, scholastic sections

     Indian chess news site with an e-zine.

The Chess Matrix

     A Texas-based site, with Texas player's ratings, tourney info, etc.

Chess Meetup

     Free service to help chess players meet up in real life.

     Extensive site devoted to chess related stamps, plus links to related sites.

Chess Patzer Magazine

     a lighthearted look at the weird and wonderful world of chess

     A few chess theme e-cards.

     Collection of several fiction & non-fiction chess stories. Very interesting site.

     Interesting site with a mix of humor, serious articles, analysis, etc. Associated with the Chess World playing site.

     Under constuction site. Remains to be seen what type of content it will contain.

Computing Magic Knight Tours

     enumerates all the magic knight's tours on an 8x8 chessboard

     Large collection of chess books on loan to the Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury

Directory Game
     Online game directory with categorized, searchable listings of online game sites

     News & advice covering a broad range of chess subjects. Includes links to chess coaches. Primarily aimed at younger players or people new to chess.

e3e5
     Russian site (with English content);  "The company "Intellectual games" was founded in spring 2002 in St.Petersburg. The organization of competitions using modern technologies and also projecting and working out means of chess position analysis are in the sphere of its interests."

ED Chess

     From the author: "This website intensively deals with the idea of perfection in chess, resulting from precise moves of White in the opening; it contains also certain metaphysic insight into this theme."  Mostly in Czech, but substantial portions are also available in English.

Email Chess and Chess in Art

     Just what it sounds like.  A good reference site.

     Not so much a normal chess club site, as a collection of chess graphics & freeware programs. There is a small collection of games that can be played through with a Java applet and a little bit of news.

     Small collection of links to other sites.

     Several downloadable forms, including scoresheets, crosstables, etc.

     Large collection of chess quotations.

     Nice collection of interesting chess stories.

Female Chess Players

     Photo gallery of female chess players.

     Site devoted to a fairly narrow selection of gambit openings. Includes some game downloads from gambits & books, links, articles & thematic tournaments.

Garry Kasparov vs. Bobby Fischer!
     Vote on who would win a match between the two players at their peaks.

GilaChess
     "Portal for Chess Fanatics"

     Women in chess, chess poetry, chess humor, essays on the origins of chess and the esoteric aspects of The Game, chess stories, and more.

     Large collection of recent photos of GM's & other chess notables.

     Short bio of Nimzowitsch, plus a picture of his grave marker and the address of the cemetery where he's buried.

     Short bio of Alekhine, plus a picture of his grave marker and the address of the cemetery where he's buried.

     Short bio of Morphy, plus a picture of his grave marker and the address of the cemetery where he's buried.

     Short bio of Steinitz, plus a picture of his grave marker and the address of the cemetery where he's buried.

     Small site with tournaments, news, and downloadable games.

Holdout!

     Chess short story by NM Dan Heisman.

     Nice introduction to how to play chess on the Internet, including a description and link to all the major servers.

     Game collections of the pioneers of the hypermodern revolution.

I Was Tortured In the Pasadena Jailhouse!
     Bobby Fischer's account of the infamous 1981 case of mistaken identity & his subsequent incarceration

ICC Finger Notes
     look up anyone's ICC (Internet Chess Club) finger notes

ICC Players' Pictures

     ICC's official page with hundreds of photos of members, listed by ICC handle.

     Instantly find anyone's current standard rating at ICC by entering their handle and clicking "Finger".

     Computer Chess Club & Chess Thinkers Forum message boards.

Jamaica Chess

     All about chess in and by Jamaican players.  Click the enter button quickly to avoid the obnoxious music.

     Review of the 2001 movie of Nabokov's The Luzhin Defence.

Kamikaze Chess Club

     Online chess club for fans of gambits & sacrificial play. Hosted by Steve Lopez. Site is primarily devoted to discussions on gambit play.

     Steve Lopez's site devoted to gambit play. Includes articles, analysis, instruction, as well as miscellaneous chess related material.

     Several instructional articles, some information resources (including re-prints of several of Bill Wall's history / trivia / etc. collections), and chess products.

Loiodice's Chess Collection

     Great site with a nice collection of games, tactics, endings, and openings for download & online viewing, plus basic illustrated rules, advice, chess etiquette, etc.

     Netherlands chess organization/club with links to several events they've sponsored or hosted.

Marcel Duchamp Bulletin Board

     Includes discussions of this famous artist's passion for chess and chess-themed artistic works.

Mastermove

     A site about endgame compositions with online quizzes.

     A non-credit advanced course on the theory and practice of chess, aimed at the serious tournament player from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Mathematics 177 Logic of Chess

     College chess course from the U. of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Includes description of the course as well as handouts & useful links & downloads.

     Site devoted to chess problems.

     Museum, links, articles, etc.

Mjae.com

     French language chess site.

     A few original & classic problems. Most of the site is still under construction.

     Chess camp for children 6-17, by IM Larry D. Evans. Two camps, in the Sacramento & Los Angeles areas of California.

Mushrooms In Moonlight

     Mushroom themed chess set... or at least that's what's they're supposed to be.

     Comic strip artist & writer Scott McCloud's unique look at his lifelong journey with chess.

     NOST has folded, but what's left of their site is still up.  Interesting association of chess players, discussing chess and a number of chess variants & other games. Small links collection, history, and information about the NOST annual convention.

     Nice collection of links to articles, instruction, advice, etc. for young & beginning players.

     Tim Krabbe's collection of essays, stories, problems & games. Primarily devoted to compositions, but very instructive.

     About chess in Florida. Games, articles, news, etc.

Orlov Chess Camp

     Georgi Orlov's chess camp for junior players. Located in the Seattle area.

     Humorous look at tournament players, dirty chess tricks, and a semi-serious look at a few openings.

     Project to create a .pgn database of all the positions & solutions from the Polgar 5334 Chess Problems book.

QWLearning
     collection of chess links

Retrograde Analysis Corner     [site review]

     Nice site devoted to retrograde analysis problems. Includes a large collection of problems, as well as a glossary, history, explanations, awards, links, etc.

Rochade Kuppenheim

     German (?) language chess site.

     GM Khalifman's famous St. Petersburg chess school. 10 day session is a remarkably low price and is well worth the fee. Includes numerous lectures, analysis, training games, GM simul, etc.

Sam Loyd -- America's Greatest Puzzle Designer

     Includes collections of Mr. Loyd's chess puzzles.

     Very good collection of games, articles, analysis, links, etc.

     Humorous and thought provoking list of 100 things to accomplish in your chess career.

     Great variety of articles, games, humor, records, history, etc. This is one of the most interesting chess sites on the Internet.

Topical Chess Postcards

     collectors of vintage chess postcards to show their treasures

UrbanChess
     dedicated to urban chess culture

USA Chess, Inc.

     Activities for children including a national summer chess camp tour held annually, scholastic tournaments, private and group lessons.

     Site devoted to some of the greats of the game who never became World Champion. Includes downloads of virtually all their games.

venetoscacchi.com

     Italian language site.

World Chess Links
     budding collection of chess links, in English, Spanish, and Italian

World Chess Rating

     Russian-language site.

     Excellent site which shows the time in all the time zones around the world. Very useful when arranging playing times for online games.

Yace and the Halloween Attack

     Series of postings about the Yace engine, its playing of the Halloween Attack on the USCL server, as well as a few other messages.

     Listing of all the Yahoo chess e-groups.

     Collection of several witty, informative, and often controversial postings by the outspoken GM. This site is no longer active as of 9-01 though.

     Miscellaneous opinions and comments from the often acerbic GM.

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