Play Chess Online!

A Quick & Simple Guide


The chess opponents are all out there, waiting to take you on. One easy way to get your feet wet is to catch a quick game online against various computers:

Battle Training Bots
SparkChess

But humans are more fun. Millions of chessplayers enjoy playing online against each other, live, at various online chess clubs. Here's a kid friendly option:

ChessKid

And there's a hundred places to play against folks of all ages from all around the world, both real-time chess, and slow "correspondence" chess. Here are two of the biggies:

Chess.com
Internet Chess Club





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