Last modified on Fri Mar  3 09:11:14 PST 2000 by mann

Internet Chess Servers
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Internet Chess Servers (ICS's) can usually be found on several of the machines
listed below.  Within each group the most popular sites are listed first.  If
you connect to a site and find very few people logged in, try another.

The number immediately after each name is the "port number."  If you are
connecting to the server using xboard, 5000 is the default port number.  If you
need to specify a different port number, do so with the -icsport option to
xboard.  The number in the second column is the numeric IP address, again
followed by the port number.  You can use the numeric IP address in place of
the name if your system has problems looking up the name.  Warning: the numeric
IP address for a name can change from time to time.

Commercial servers:
  chessclub.com 5000            207.99.83.227 5000   Internet Chess Club
  chess.net 5000                204.244.122.50 5000  Chess Net

Main free server: 
  freechess.org 5000            164.58.253.13 5000   Free Internet Chess Server
  (formerly fics.onenet.net)

Regional and specialized free servers:
  chess.unix-ag.uni-kl.de 5000       131.246.89.4 5000    Germany
  chess.eerie.fr 5000                146.19.2.4 5000      France
  chess.etud.insa-tlse.fr 5000       193.50.229.238 5000  France
  primrose.warwick.ac.uk 5000        137.205.192.26 5000  United Kingdom
  dics.dds.nl 5000                   194.109.20.8 5000    The Netherlands
  eics.daimi.aau.dk 5000             130.225.18.157 5000  Denmark
  fly.cc.fer.hr 7890                 161.53.70.130 7890   Croatia
  chess.mds.mdh.se 5555              130.243.77.30 5555   Wild-only server
  ics.interdomain.net.au 5000        203.17.167.4 5000    Australia
  fics.infcom.it 5000                194.91.6.2 5000      Italy
  chess.isholf.is                    194.105.226.16       Iceland
  chess-server.spidernet.com.cy 5000 194.154.155.206 5000 Greece/Cyprus

Chess FTP Servers
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To use an FTP server, type the command "ftp XXX" (where XXX is one of
the machine names listed below), type "anonymous" as your login name,
and type your email address as the password.  For further help, read
the messages the FTP server prints, use the "help" command inside ftp,
or read the documentation for the ftp program on your system.

ftp.freechess.org         164.58.253.13   Internet Chess Library (ICL)
ftp.chessclub.com         208.196.3.67    Small archive maintained by ICC
ftp.pitt.edu              136.142.185.47  Files from Fido under /group/chess
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca       130.179.16.23   Int'l Email Chess Group under /iecg


Chess World Wide Web pages
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To use any of these, you need a World Wide Web browser.  Use the "Open
URL" or "Open Location" function on one of these names.  Most of them
have pointers to additional chess pages as well.

http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html
http://www.freechess.org/
http://www.chessclub.com/
http://www.traveller.com/chess/
