Play Chess Online

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*Chess Corner Chess Server - Play correspondence type chess online! Full range of features including individual, tournament and team games.

*Chessworld.net - Play correspondence type chess

Internet Chess Club - The biggest chess server on the internet. Unrated games can be played here but there is a charge if you wish to play rated games and participate fully in tournaments etc.

British Chess Clubs

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Barnet Chess Clubs - This site is full of interesting information for chess players everywhere.

Chess Corners British Chess Club Section - Details of Chess Clubs and homepages in Britain.

UK Web Chess Guide - The biggest collection of links to websites in the UK.

Personal Homepages

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ChessGeek.com - Are you a chess geek? Download their chess screen saver and pgn viewer

Pawn Pusher - A humourous look at the chess world!

The Chess Addict - Homepage of Mike Fox and Richard James co-authors of The (Even More) Complete Chess Addict

Instructional Sites

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Chess For Success Tutorial - A good site for Intermediates.

Chess is Fun

Chess Kids Academy - Instructional site for kids.

Chess Problem of the Day - Different levels of difficulties ranging from very easy (checkmate in 1) to very difficult (checkmate in 6 or more). A solution to the problem will be made available the next day.

Claude Kaber - Tactics training Database in Chessbase format

Duif's Place - An interesting site for tournament players. Includes a directory of chess teachers.

Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page

Stanislav Vokal's Chess Compositions - A collection of great chess compositions.

The Beginner's Chess Page

General Information

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chess-links.com

ChessGuide.com - Chess directory with categorized links to chess sites, tools, resources and more.

FIDE

Pitt Ed. Chess Archives - Contains many game collections, demos, graphics etc. to download.

The Chess Cafe Home Page

The Week in Chess Magazine - Mark Crowther reports the latest chess news and games.

Chess Software

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Chessbase Website - Keep up to date with the best chess database.

DBSChess - British Correspondence Chess Association and David's recorder program

The Tasc.ChessSystem Home - Find out more about Tascbase, Chess Tutor and Chessica.

Chess Supplies

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A Chess Set Luxury Gift Shop

Batsford Chess - One of the biggest publishers of chess books.

Big Chess Set - Giant Chess Sets.

Chess Clock - Analog Wood Chess Clock

Chess Collectables

ChessMate.com - chess sets, clocks, and boards; new and rare chess books; and chess software. Also chess features for your enjoyment.

London Chess Centre - Home Page of the London Chess and Bridge Centre with online catalogue.

Sammy Seahorse Teaches Chess - A chess book for children

TheBestChessTables.com - Sells chess tables, chairs and sets

US Chess Federation Online Store - chess sets, videos, books, chess clocks, gifts

News Groups and Mailing Lists

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Deja News Chess News Groups - Access the chess news groups using your browser.

Miscellaneous

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4 Player Chess

Board Games.pagina.nl - Links to all sorts of board games.

Casemir Chocolates - Has a chocolate chess set which would make a novel gift for the chess player!

Chess Mail - Correspondence chess news magazine, books and CC database. Interactive game play-through online.

Chess Visualisation Training - Online step-by-step exercises which help you to increase your chess visualisation.

ChessLab - High-speed Java-based interactive chess board will connect you with the biggest 2 million games chess database for interactive search and analysis.

The Chess Variant Pages - Rules of chess variants such as Shogi (Japanese Chess) etc

The World Chess Championship - Provides an overview of the chess events which have determined past and present World Chess Champions.

Thinks Com - This is a great site for brain game fans. Besides chess it contains information and links for devotees of crosswords, anagrams, trivia, and java games and puzzles.