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The World Chess Network (WCN) was a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess that launched in 1997 and closed ten years later in 2007 when it was bought by Internet Chess Club and merged with Chess Live to form World Chess Live. As a typical chess server, the network provided basic services such as the ...
The result of the acquisition and merger was the formation of World Chess Live, a new Internet chess server that merged features of both services. [7] World Chess Live merged into, and become part of, the Internet Chess Club on 19 March 2012. [8] For some years, the Spanish on-line chess portal JaqueMate.org had technological support provided ...
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 .
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One of the largest chess platforms in the world, [4] the site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available for accounts with subscriptions. Live online chess can be played against other users in daily, rapid, blitz or bullet time controls, with a number of chess variants available.
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.
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.