chess on the web question
 

Where can you play blitz games for free and earn a rating. Everywhere I checked is either free but doesn't have a rating system or costs loot for a premium membership.

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Re: chess on the web question
 

lots of places
iwin.com
yahoo
pogo
etc
the rating is worthless, so theres no point
theres places with better servers that you can play unrated for free, others can elaborate

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Thanks.

The rating is just for me to see if any improvement is taking place.

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babaschess

tough games tho

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FICS is by far your best option.

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FICS is by far your best option.

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Thanks David! Thats perfect.

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Judging by the population of Grandmasters, chess.net. You can watch GMs and IMs play blitz 24 hours a day. They also have live silumcasts where you can sweat the biggest games with other interested people, which usually includes at least one IM.

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Judging by the population of Grandmasters, chess.net. You can watch GMs and IMs play blitz 24 hours a day. They also have live silumcasts where you can sweat the biggest games with other interested people, which usually includes at least one IM.

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as a former chess.net admin...

ICC [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Judging by the population of Grandmasters, chess.net. You can watch GMs and IMs play blitz 24 hours a day. They also have live silumcasts where you can sweat the biggest games with other interested people, which usually includes at least one IM.

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as a former chess.net admin...

ICC [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Youre right, it's been so long I mixed them up. ICC is way better.