Chess Enthusiasts: Cool website with tactical problem drills

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

http://chess.emrald.net/index.php

A good way to sharpen your skills and kill some time.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. If there are any DU chess players who want to play online, I'll play at either FICS or RHP.

FICS = Free Internet Chess Server

http://freechess.org

Accounts are free! You can either play directly through their web page (requires Java), or through a front end program, for which I highly recommend the freeware Babaschess:

http://babaschess.net

Unfortunately Babaschess is only available for Windows. The Java version of FICS will work on MacOS, Linux/Unix, as well as Windows.

If you join, PM me here and we can arrange to play.

RHP = http://redhotpawn.com

RHP requires a (one time) fee of about 20 bucks to join. It emphasizes correspondence type games that take 1-3 days per move, although it does have a sub-site where you can play time control games.