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From: Eva Category: Art Date: 05 May 2008 Time: 01:53 PM Review: http://chess.com Excellent website, clearly made by nerdy people who care about web functionality. Lots of good content, 'chess mentor' and 'tactics trainer', 'chess problem of the day' etc. As a free member you can still play with other nerds the world over, looks like very little you're missing out on really. Also very nice is that you get a greeter game with a 'volunteer' of high ranking. It's an unrated game and you will be beaten but nice that someone is playing every new member. It's excellent being able to go through famous chess games by clicking the forwards button, rather than needing to spend an hour following the moves in a book. The only weird and disappointing thing I've discovered is that there's separate mens' and womens' chess tournaments out there in the world. I never knew that. It doesn't make sense. Apparently the top ranking female players boycott them, if I was a contender I'd not contend either.