List Of Internet Chess Platforms
This is a list of notable internet chess servers. Active * Chess.com * Chessmaster Live * FIDE Online Arena * Free Internet Chess Server * Internet Chess Club * Kasparov Chess * Lichess Lichess (; ) is a free and open-source software, free and open-source Internet chess server run by a Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an ... * Playchess * CircleChess Defunct * Chess24 * Chess Live * World Chess Network References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Internet Chess Servers Chess websites * Internet protocols Internet chess servers Online games ...
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Internet Chess Server
The 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 the internet. History In the 1970s, one could play correspondence chess in a PLATO System program called "chess3". Several users used chess3 regularly; often a particular user would make several moves per day, sometimes with several games simultaneously in progress. In theory one could use chess3 to play a complete game of chess in one sitting, but chess3 was not usually used this way. PLATO was not connected to Internet predecessor ARPANET in any way that allowed mass use by the public, and consequently, chess3 was and still is relatively unknown to the public. In the eighties, chess play by email was still fairly novel. Latency with email was less significant than with traditional correspondence chess via paper letters. Often one could complete a dozen moves in a week. As network technology improved, public, widesp ...
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