Playchess.com is an interesting international site. Many Grandmasters, (you can watch, on a board not in person, Nigel Short, Yasser Seirawan and Magnus Carlssen playing their games for instance. Even Kasparov drops by once in a while) many International Masters, many FIDE Masters, a beginnerssection (!) (try beating those speedies to start with), chess lessons, chess-training, simuls, live reports from all the major chess events, eight pawn chess, shuffle chess, possibility of saving the games that you played and lots of other features.
People who use chess computers/software outside the special computer rooms for computer assisted chess get their rating deleted.
...... and you can play for free signing in as a guest !
http://www.playchess.com/
From the site:
"The world's fastest growing chess server. More than 3000 players online every night. 100,000 games per day. Top grandmasters playing, free chess training, live events with audio commentary, free chess tournaments with prizes every day, simultaneous exhibitions, special beginners and computer chess rooms."
and:
Players with Internet addresses from Russia and all former GUS countries, Africa, China and the Middle East have free access.
GMs and IMs who registered for King or Queen rank have free access and automatically earn Ducats for playing on the server.
Check it out !
Place to Play Chess
15 Mar '06 16:13
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