Chess on the web

[SpeakEasy]

Can any chess fans recommend a decent site to play for free against decent competition? Not looking for the "speed chess" games (like 5 minutes per side), but where the players are interested in playing a game that allows some time to think. Thanks

[bugstud]

FICS

[YourFoxyGrandma]

Yahoo games.

[BrettK]

Play anywhere but at zone.com. They don't recognize draws by threefold repetition... Not knowing this, I sac'ed a piece with black in a losing position to force a draw and ended up having to play for over 400 more moves before losing on time.

[bugstud]

this is www.freechess.org (http://www.freechess.org), btw

yahoo sucks

[TimM]

I prefer ICC (http://www.chessclub.com) but it is pay. You could play as a guest though for free.

FICS (http://www.freechess.org/) would be my next choice.

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Yahoo games.

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Never liked it. Speed games are tough with no lag compensation and no pre-mousing of moves. There are also a lot of have hugely inflated ratings. It is tough to get a game with anyone higher rated than yourself. If you do and beat them, forget about a rematch, they all seem to want to protect their precious ratings.

[fnord_too]

FICS all the way

[Fianchetto]

For correspondence games:

ItsYourTurn.com
or
GoldToken.com

[Q8offsuit]

I like Red Hot Pawn (http://www.redhotpawn.com) . It is free up to six concurrent games. The quickest games they have are 1 day per move.

[Jake (The Snake)]

In case you didn't get it yet, the answer is FICS. If you are looking to get serious, ICC.