My interests are chess news, correspondence chess and chess computers.This page is a collection of links to my favorite sites.
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Links to other sites on the Web

• Chess news
• Federations
• Chess computers
• Downloadable software
• Sites to play chess
• Shopping
• Newsgroups
• Nice links

Chess news

• The Week In Chess. One of the best on-line chess magazines.
• Chess Planet. The latest tournament results.
• Inside Chess. One of the best chess magazines.
• Chess Life. Official magazine of US Chess Federation.


• Chess Monthly. One of the best UK magazines.
• Schach One of the best German magazines.
• Europe Echecs French magazine
• 64-Chess Review. One of the best Russian magazines.
• L'Italia Scacchistica Italian magazine
• Chess Mail. The best chess magazine for international correspondence chess and Internet.


• Chess Informant The book


• New in Chess Similar to Chess Informant



Federations

• FIDE. International Chess Federation.


• ICCF. International Correspondence Chess Federation.


• USCF. US Chess Federation
• BCF British Chess Federation
• CFC. Chess Federation of Canada
• ICCF-US US Correspondence Federation
• BPCF. British Postal Chess Federation
• CCLACorrespondence Chess League of Australia
• DSB German Chess Federation
• BdF German Correspondence Chess Federation
• SFSV Swiss Correspondence Chess Federation
• OSB Austrian Correspondence Chess Federation
• TÜRSEV Turk Chess Education and Improvement Foundation
• ICCA International Computer Chess Association

Chess computers

• SSDF. Latest chess computer ratings
• Gambit-Soft. Latest news about chess programs.
• University of Pittsburgh. The place to download a chess file.
• Rebel Rebel 9 has a SSDF rating of 2525 +/- 24 based on 883 games on a Pentium 200 MMX.
• Hiarcs Hiarcs 7 has a SSDF rating of 2570 +/- 27 based on 715 games on a Pentium 200 MMX.
• Chessmaster A strong program at a good price. It has a SSDF rating of 2576 +/- 61 based on 182 games on a Pentium 200 MMX.
• Shredder Shredder 2 has a SSDF rating of 2503 +/- 25 based on 765 games on a Pentium 200 MMX.
• ChessBase. One of the leading chess database programs and Fritz playing program.
• Chess Assistant A chess database program.
• Tasc ChessSystem Manufacturer of chess database, and the world's strongest stand-alone chess computer with a SSDF rating of 2372 +/- 44 based on 283 games.
• Chess Widower's Home Page Comments on chess programs
• The Macintosh Chess FAQ Homepage Everything about Macintosh chess programs.
• Macintosh Chess Software Directory A nice collection of Macintosh chess links
• Novag Chess computer manufacturer. Sapphire II is the strongest portable unit in the world with a SSDF rating of 2112 +/- 35 based on 444 games.
• Saitek Chess computer manufacturer. Also sells Mephisto brand. Mephisto Atlanta is the strongest computer that is still in production with an SSDF rating of 2187 + 37 based on 407 games. Also look at Mephisto Miami. A portable unit with an SSDF rating of 1896 +/- 29 based on 593 games and costs around 50 USD. I do not have it, but it offers a lot for that price.
• Excalibur Another chess computer manufacturer. These three companines are the best.

Dowloadable software

• Rebel Decade 1.2 A very strong freeware chess program courtesy of Schröder B.V. It has a SSDF rating of 2278 +/- 30 based on 563 games on a Pentium 90. DOS, 671KB ZIP file
• Rebel Decade 2 Assumed to be stronger than Decade 1.2 by 40-50 Elo. DOS, 1227KB file
• MacChess 5.0 The strongest freeware chess program for Power Macintosh. 537KB MacChess home page
• Free Macintosh Chess SoftwareAll of the best Macintosh programs are here
• PGN 1.52 Software to view games saved in PGN format. Windows, 72KB ZIP file
• Slics 2.4m ChessBoard by D. Fong, to play in Internet in Windows. It includes the TimeSeal 2.0g program. 644 KB ZIP file
• Chess Client 1.41 Same as Slics. Windows95 718 KB EXE file. Author: James Barnett
• Tim Mann's Chess Page Programmer of X-board and Winboard. These are freeware programs to play against and to connect to Internet Chess Servers. Unix/Win95/NT.
• Frank's Chess Page A lot of information about Winboard programs
• ECTool A nice software to play chess by e-mail.
• Swiss Perfect Freeware to organize chess tournaments. Swiss Perfect 2.4 for DOS 95 KB ZIP file
• ChessBase Light Freeware chess database program
• Exachess Freeware chess database program for Macinthosh
• Chess Works A program to play chess on a LAN. Macintosh
• Giveaway Wizard 2.05 Freeware to play losing chess, where the aim is to lose all of your pieces and the king is just another piece that can be moved into a check. This program has the second highest suicide (another name for losing chess) rating in FICS. DOS, 30 KB ZIP file
• PKZip. Software to open and create .zip files

Sites to play chess




• FICS USA Chess Server Telnet freechess.org 5000


• EICS. European Chess Server Telnet eics.daimi.aau.dk 5000


• BICS British Chess Server Telnet crocus.warwick.ac.uk 5000


• ZICS. Australian Chess Server Telnet ics.interdomain.net.au 5000
• Internet Chess Club Online chess site Telnet chessclub.com 5000


• International Email Chess Group Email chess server
• International Email Chess Club Similar to IECG
• Internet Collegiate Chess League For university students
• First Saturday These tournaments offer you a chance to get a FIDE rating, IM, or a GM title in Hungary. It is not a online site.



Shopping

• US Chess Federation Good selection of books and equipment.
• Chess Digest The best chess book dealer in the USA
• ICE Chess Shop A chess shop
• BCM Chess Shop One of the best UK chess shops.
• London Chess Center. One of the best UK chess shops.
• SchachDepot A chess shop in Germany.
• Chessformat. A chess shop in Spain.
• Het Schaakbureau. Book and software dealer in the Netherlands.
• Le2Torri Book and software dealer in Italy.
• Batsford. Publisher of English chess books.
• Your Move Chess & Games. The best computer chess dealer in USA.
• Gambit-Soft. One of the best chess computer dealers in the world.
• HCC A leading chess computer dealer in Germany

Newsgroups

• rec.games.chess.analysis
• rec.games.chess.computer
• rec.games.chess.misc
• rec.games.chess.play-by-email
• rec.games.chess.politics
• alt.chess.ics Internet Chess Servers
• alt.chess.bdg Blackmar-Diemer gambit
• gnu.chess

Nice links

• Chess Space. One of the largest and best chess links site.


• Steve Pribut's chess page. A nice link.
• John C. Knudsen's Correspondence Chess Page. Recommended by ICCF.
• The Chess Cafe. Book reviews, history and endgame studies.
• Turnierkalender. Tournament information by Speckert.
• The Chess Variant Pages If you are so good at chess that it simply bores you, or want to try something different this is the place
• Computer Chess Programming A nice site on programming
• Chess on StampsSome information about chess stamps
• My wife's page.
• Cicek My sister's homepage. 14 new drawings
• Karpov and I in Groningen, The Netherlands, December 1995 20 KB
• A caricature 44 KB

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