• The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run online chess platform. When the original Internet Chess Server (ICS) was commercialized and rebranded...
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  • The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC had over 30,000...
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    the Free Internet Chess Server. While they have waned in popularity, both servers are still active as of 2024.[citation needed] The first chess website...
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  • American Internet Chess Server, commonly known as Internet Chess Server (ICS) was a telnet-based chess server which allowed users to play live chess over...
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  • of notable internet chess servers. Chess.com Chessmaster Live FIDE Online Arena Free Internet Chess Server Internet Chess Club Kasparov Chess Lichess Playchess...
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  • Kasparov Chess is a commercial internet chess server, internet forum and social networking website. The former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is...
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  • Fellow of the International College of Surgeons Free Internet Chess Server, a volunteer-run chess server Fellow of the Institution of Chartered Surveyors...
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    Lichess (category Internet chess servers)
    LEE-ches) is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously...
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    destination. Premoving is available on chess websites such as the Internet Chess Club, the Free Internet Chess Server, Chess.com, and Lichess. To premove, a...
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    PyChess is a free software chess client developed for GNU. It allows users to play offline or online via the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). PyChess...
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  • improvement of the Elo system. It is used by Chess.com, Free Internet Chess Server and other online chess servers. The Glicko-2 system is a refinement of the...
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    system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less common methods that have been employed...
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  • Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site has a freemium model in...
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  • Playchess (category Internet chess servers)
    Playchess is a commercial Internet chess server managed by ChessBase devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. As of February 2011...
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    Internet Server (MEWIS) and other smaller servers before being implemented at Chess Live and Internet Chess Club in 2000, Free Internet Chess Server in...
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    Free Internet Chess ServerInternet Chess Anniversary". www.freechess.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16. Team (CHESScom), Chess com (2023-01-23). "Chess Is Booming...
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    commercial chess server, the Internet Chess Club, which was launched in 1995, and for other early chess servers such as Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Since...
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  • national chess federations, the short-lived Professional Chess Association (PCA), and online chess servers including the Internet Chess Club (ICC), Free Internet...
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    playing chess online against other people inside one's webbrowser. This was probably one of the first chess web apps. Free Internet Chess Server followed...
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  • the Internet and a high number of commercial and free Internet chess servers has made it possible for anyone to play advanced chess over the Internet. The...
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    as in traditional chess, chess variants can be played over the board, by correspondence, or by computer. Some internet chess servers facilitate the play...
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    accordance with the US chess federation, the rules as applied on the chess servers Free Internet Chess Server and Internet Chess Club and the Berlin bughouse...
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  • Chess Live was a subscription Internet chess server. Initially affiliated with the United States Chess Federation, it opened on August 8, 2000, under the...
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  • CS1 maint: publisher location (link) "crazyhouse". FICS Help. Free Internet Chess Server. 2008-02-28. Archived from the original on 2014-04-16. Retrieved...
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    server devoted to chess playing and related activities. Free Internet Chess Server – volunteer-run Internet chess server. It was organized as a free alternative...
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  • Stalemate (redirect from Stalemate (chess))
    rules, a stalemate is simply a win for the stalemated player. The Free Internet Chess Server, however, grants a win to the player with fewer pieces remaining...
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  • Chess.com, an internet chess server and social networking website GNU Chess, a free software chess engine Chess (2006 film), a Malayalam film Chess (2008...
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    Using Scid, one may play games against human opponents (on the Free Internet Chess Server), or computer opponents. Database features include a Move Tree...
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  • can therefore run on various platforms. Chess Problem Database Server is online database of all types of chess problems, maintained by Gerd Wilts, hosted...
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  • implements both client and server applications. Orbot (Android, iOS) – free proxy app that provides anonymity on the Internet for users of the Android and...
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