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Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games. Lichess is ad-free and all the features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations from patrons. [5] [6] [7] Features include chess puzzles, computer analysis, tournaments and chess variants.
The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run online chess platform. When the original Internet Chess Server (ICS) was commercialized and rebranded as the Internet Chess Club (ICC) in 1995, a group of users and developers came together to fork the code and host an alternative committed to free access, and a rivalry between the two servers persisted for years.
Chesmac is a Finnish computer chess game programmed by Raimo Suonio for the Telmac 1800 computer, published by Topdata in 1979. [1] It is possibly the first commercially-released video game in Finland. [1] The game has a simple graphical user interface and the moves are entered with number-letter combinations.
The book is intended for beginners and uses a programmed learning approach, [2] permitting readers to go back and retry each question if they give a wrong answer. Unusually for a modern chess book, it requires no knowledge of algebraic notation, using only diagrams with arrows and descriptions such as "rook-takes-pawn-check". [3]
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, Playchess has over 31,000 players online, including many internationally titled players who remain pseudo-anonymous and other masters whose identities are known, such as Hikaru Nakamura, Nigel Short and Michael Adams.
ChessV (short for Chess Variants) is a free computer program designed to play many chess variants. ChessV is an open-source, universal chess variant program with a graphical user-interface, sophisticated AI, support for opening books and other features of traditional chess programs.
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