Chris Kantack's Chess Links 
 (Last Updated: 8/22/2010)

Some Key Handheld Chess Sites

IntelliChess Pocket PC program that also acts as a ChessClub.com client!
www.chessgenius.com Richard Lang's great program now available on many platforms.
www.chesstiger.com Extremely strong chess program for the Palm platform.
Excalibur Support Center Here's a link to most of Excaliburs' handheld chess manuals!

 

Other Computer Chess Program Pages

Computer Chess Ratings Ratings from Selective Search Magazine (courtesy of CountryWide Computers)
HIARCS Chess Software Great chess software for all computers, including handhelds!
Rebel Home Page Great site featuring all kinds of material on computer chess!
Chess Programming Great links page on computer chess programming resources.
Chess Town A great resource of links to many computer chess sites.
Tim Mann's Chess Pages Plenty of great info and super links to multiple computer chess resources!

 

Chess Retailers/Manufacturers & Software Sources

www.thechesspiece.com An excellent chess internet site with an interesting mix of products.
www.chesshouse.com One of the best all-around and reliable chess internet retailers. 
www.handango.com Recommended source for ChessGenius, Chess Tiger, and other Palm software.
Fred Wilson Chess Books Many products offered: New and old chess books, training videos, and much more.
www.chesswonders.com This retailer offers a very wide range of gear for chess and much more!
www.excaliburelectronics.com Manufacturer of many products including several chess computers.
www.chessusa.com Another chess retailer that also offers online discussion forums.
www.palmgear.com Great source for Palm software including chess programs for Palm.
Made In Firenze Unique and luxury chess sets!
www.tucows.com Another great source for chess and other software downloads.

 

Chess Online Playing Sites

Chess.com A very popular site featuring online play and educational info.
Visit ChessWorld.net! One of my favorite site for playing correspondence chess!
games.yahoo.com/board-games Great free site for playing chess online with thousands of others!
www.itsyourturn.com Play correspondence style chess games.  Many other games also featured.
International Email Chess Group Chess and more by email!  Features ratings and tournaments...very popular! 
Internet Email Chess Club Another super email chess playing site! 
FICS Chess Server Another popular free site for online chess players.
www.chesslab.com Features chess, checkers, backgammon, and gin rummy!
Internet Chess Club Very popular site for online chess competition.  Grandmasters play here too!
Red Hot Pawn Online Play online chess against other people or a computer!

 

Some Of My Favorite Chess News Sites

www.chessninja.com Check out Mig Greengard's super site.  Free access to the "Daily Dirt"!
www.chessbase.com Provides news and current information on chess events (and more!).
www.chessnews.org Great site for finding commentary critical of USCF policies and more!
www.chesscafe.com A quality site featuring many great articles by well-known authors!
Correspondence Chess News No longer active; but archive issues still available.
www.newinchess.com Chess Magazine and more.   Over 2200 links to other chess sites.

 

Scholastic Chess Links

 Chess-in-the-Schools
National Scholastic Chess Foundation
Chess'n Math Association
Duif's Place

Northwest Washington Scholastic Chess

Northwest Chess (Washington and Oregon Chess Tournament News)

Scholastic Chess Gateway

About.com's Scholastic Chess Page and Links

Starting a Scholastic Chess Club
Scholastic Chess Links and Resource Page

               

Chess Games & Database Sites

www.chessgames.com Over a half million games online and much more!
chessbomb.com Watch live chess tournaments and matches with realtime computer analysis.
Lar Balzer's Chess Games Links Incredible source of millions of chess games.  All available for downloading!
www.jrobicchess.com Large database of Grandmaster games and great advice on learning chess.

Miscellaneous and Other General Chess Links

America's Foundation for Chess Organizers of the U.S. Chess Championships!
Dan Heisman A fantastic chess resource for chess instruction, tournament organizing, and more!
www.chessquotes.com A brand new, well-organized site featuring great quotes throughout chess history.
Jeremy Silman's Chess Pages A great chess author and book reviewer has quite an interesting site here.
www.chessopolis.com Large site with many different "chess offerings".   Great for book reviews!
www.chesskit.com A "cornucopia" of all things related to chess! 
www.uschess.org Official site of the U.S. Chess Federation
Chess Graphics Alan Cowderoy's site is probably the best for chess photos and graphics!
Jeff Sonas' ChessMetrics The statistical columnist for Kasparov.com has his own site as well!
www.chessvideos.tv Chess video and discussion site.
Chess Journalists of America Devoted to the promotion of high quality chess journalism.

 

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