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1  Internet Chess Club

The Internet Chess Club is by far my favorite cyber chess club and in my opinion the most popular site available. There is competition galore, with over a thousand people playing (including 20-50 titled players) at any time of the day or night.

To begin, go to www.chessclub.com download software with a single click of the mouse and after installation you’re ready to start. The download process is easy, fill out a registration form, click on the new icon on your desktop, and begin playing.

Before you'll be asked to pay a cent, you can try the club for a week using their free trial program. After your free trial, which has no restrictions on its use, you can pay and become a member or continue to use the service as an unregistered guest free of charge for as long as you want. Rates are $29 for six months or $49 for one year, and if you are a student you can obtain a discounted rate of $24.50 for one year. They even have a money-back guarantee. If at any time you are not satisfied with the service you are receiving from the Internet Chess Club, you may request a refund for the remaining portion of your membership.

Tournaments are something this site does better than all the rest. Currently, the Internet Chess Club holds over 750 tournaments every week for members! There are dozens of regularly-scheduled events, and hundreds of impromptu tournaments all day long for bullet, blitz, standard, and wild variations. In other words you can find a tournament of any type all day long. You can even discover new variations of the game of chess with the wide variety of “wild” variations available.

Your games can be automatically saved into your own PGN database, and you can even research your opponent’s games (the last 25 games are saved for everybody). Members have the option of viewing Grandmaster games in progress, including ones being played in International events, and at times even see Grandmaster commentary while the game is being played.

Additional perks of this site include chess lessons, problems and the option of playing computers at many different levels of strength. There is definitely something for everybody here, whether you’re a beginner, master or just like to kibitz.

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