A refreshingly fundamental approach to classical music. As soothing as a pastel-painted clinic, as informative and helpful as your favorite clinician. For more, see the complete Web Citations Index . Today chess on the Internet is booming. At just about any time of day or night a member can log on and within minutes be playing someone of comparable ability.
Players can converse with each other in a text chat area that appears alongside the chessboard.
There's much more. Chess experts appear regularly to deliver lectures, and tournaments from around the world are broadcast live for members to follow and analyze. That help channel is a vital one for online-chess neophytes. The ICC is driven mainly by UNIX-based text commands, and as a result the user interface, although becoming friendlier, is at the outset somewhat daunting. But ICC administrators are available online to answer questions and provide advice, and they promise that more multimedia enhancements are imminent.