Free Internet Chess Server . MSN Gaming Zone . Yahoo also has a wide selection of other games besides chess. If you live near New York and you like to play chess, you're in luck. New York is to US Chess what Rome was to the Romans.
Many tournaments offer substantial monetary prizes.
To find out more information about the club, email Joshua Lane , the club president. Learn some basic opening principles. Too many players throw away the game right in the opening, and spend the rest of it trying vainly to stave off the inevitable. Yet, with some experience and mastery of a few rules of thumb, a beginner should be able to hold his own against even a master for the first 10 moves or so. I'll now comment on each of these objectives in turn.