Slow play chess servers have a relaxed pace of one day to two weeks per move. They are good for honing openings that you are familiar with. Brain King, Chess Here, Chess-Mail, Chess Maniac, Cow Play, Game Knot, GoldToken, It's Your Turn, Play Chess, Queen Alice, Red hot pawn, Stan's Net Chess.

Regular chess servers offer online chess at lightning, blitz, or standard speeds. They are good for playing openings that you need practice with. The Internet Chess Club is without peer, has the most FIDE titled players, the most members, the most events, and is the easiest to play on. But ICC costs a bit. The Free Internet Chess Server with ficsgames is the original chess server. Both chess servers have their share of players who enjoy pretending to play chess, without thought. Their chess is best described as a form of Pachinko. It looks like chess, but is much faster. The other chess game sites are generally buggy, mismanaged, and populated by rude, juvenile computer cheaters posing as chess players.

The commercial chess database programs, chessbase and chess assistant are fine, but can be overkill. The free ones, chessdb and scid, are also completely adequate. ChessBase Light is free, but slightly crippled, which may be OK for you. Chessgames.com is a database of historical chess games combined with discussion forums. 365 chess is the biggest chess database online. Chesslive.de is the ChessBase searchable database. (You are storing and reviewing your games in a computer database, right?)

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