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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 subscribing members in 2005. [ 1 ] It was the first Internet chess server and was the largest pay to play chess server in 2005.
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.
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They formed the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), and continued to allow everyone to have access to all features for free. In 1996, John Fanning, uncle of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, started Chess.net, [3] a commercial Internet chess server to rival ICS. Both services remain operational today.
Premoving is a feature exclusive to online chess. It is offered by many chess websites, including the Internet Chess Club, the Free Internet Chess Server, Chess.com, and Lichess. Chess.com allows players to make multiple premoves at once. The Internet Chess Club allows one to block players who use premoves.
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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 name US Chess Live . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It closed on 29 May 2007, when it was bought by Internet Chess Club and merged with World Chess Network to form World Chess Live .
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [1] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [2]