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Chess

Chess is a challenging board game for two players with 16 pieces that move across a board with eight rows and eight columns, with fixed rules. The object is to checkmate the opponent's king.

Sites in Chess

My Obsession with Chess
Scott McCloud recounts his childhood and adult addiction to the world of grids, knights, and checkmates.
Chess Galaxy
Photo gallery, downloads, games, problems, and a diary.
Chess Corner
Includes quotes, rules, tactics, chat, and Internet play.
Chess Poster
Problems, news, games, history, players, and rules.
Chess Set Collection
A pictorial site of a personal collection of over 50 chess sets from around the world.
Avler Chess
Featuring chess products, strategies, forums, and games.
GilaChess Website
Contains forums, tournament news, games in PGN files, and links.
MyChessSite
Information about gambits, email chess, Internet chess, chess sets and chess software.
Chess World
Contains online play, PGN files, news, and contest information.
About.com: Chess
Information includes rules, tactics, clubs, software, and Internet play.
ChessGames.com
Online PGN chess game database with java viewers, and chat forums.
Chessville
Instructions, reviews, downloads, web-directory, trivia, and history.
Chess
Provides problems, studies, rules and online play.
Alekhine Game Of The Week
A site dedicated to Alekhine's Defense (1. e4 Nf6). Annotated games, game viewer, and message board.
The Chess Quiz
Features questions to test knowledge of game rules.
The Chess Drum
The purpose of the site is to champion the success of black chess players around the world, to give a greater sense of community, and for sharing ideas and knowledge.
Peter's Chess Page
History of chess as well as some interesting facts and useful chess links.
Chess is Fun
Offers rules, openings, endgames, tactics, book reviews, and game archive.
TaL's Chess
Kasparov v. Topalov at Wijk aan Zee, 1999. About 50 different annotations by Kasparov, Seirawan, Ftacnik, Stohl, and Byrne.
Chessnia
Files, online quizzes, a chess coach, links, and a forum.
Ed's Ever-Growing Chess Page
Chess pictures, stories, tournaments, games and problems.
Chyss Chess
Features classic openings, puzzles, facts, biographies, and hints.
Chess Geek
Contains puzzles, books, PGN files, software reviews, news, and links.
ChessBoxing.com
A thinking man's contact sport. Offers articles and news.
Chess Guide
Includes history, famous games and players, rules, strategy, tactics, chess and the computer, documentation and literature, and variants.
Chess training
Includes tactics, lectures, combinations, history, and games of all World Championships.
Finite Chess
A survey of chess information, openings, endgames, midgames, positional play, tactics, biographies, and scholastic level instruction. Animated examples of openings and endgames.
Art of Chess
Guide on rules, online games, software, history, and strategies.
GambitDeclined.com
Contains the basics of chess with graphics to explain positions.
ChessDryad
Chess education, history, articles, current events, and the CalGames Database.

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this category in other languages

Шахмат Bulgarian : Шахмат
Escacs Catalan : Escacs
国际象棋 Chinese Simplified : 国际象棋
Šah Croatian : Šah
Šachy Czech : Šachy
Skak Danish : Skak
Schaken Dutch : Schaken
Echecs French : Echecs
Schach German : Schach
Catur Indonesian : Catur
Scacchi Italian : Scacchi
チェス Japanese : チェス
Šachmatai Lithuanian : Šachmatai
Sjakk Norwegian : Sjakk
Szachy Polish : Szachy
Xadrez Portuguese : Xadrez
Şah Romanian : Şah
Шахматы Russian : Шахматы
Ajedrez Spanish : Ajedrez
Schack Swedish : Schack
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