Last modified on Fri Apr 25 14:48:08 PDT 1997 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 parentheses 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           (208.196.3.66 5000)    Internet Chess Club
  chess.net 5000               (204.167.98.30 5000)   Chess Net

Major free servers: 
  fics.onenet.net 5000         (164.58.253.10 5000)   USA
  eics.daimi.aau.dk 5000       (130.225.18.157 5000)  Europe (Denmark)

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
  crocus.warwick.ac.uk 5000    (137.205.192.13 5000)  United Kingdom
  dics.dds.nl 5000             (194.109.20.8 5000)    The Netherlands
  fly.cc.fer.hr 7890           (161.53.70.130 7890)   Croatia
  callisto.si.usherb.ca 5000   (132.210.13.60 5000)   Canada
  wisdom.weizmann.ac.il 5000   (132.76.80.77 5000)    Israel
  chess.mds.mdh.se 5000        (130.238.251.208 5000) Sweden
  chess.mds.mdh.se 5555        (130.238.251.208 5555) Wild-only server
  cipres.cec.uchile.cl 5000    (146.83.5.130 5000)    Chile
  ics.interdomain.net.au 5000  (203.17.167.4 5000)    Australia
  mezquite.iico.uaslp.mx 5000  (148.224.6.99 5000)    Mexico
  fics.infcom.it 5000          (194.91.6.2 5000)      Italy

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.

caissa.onenet.net         164.58.253.11   Internet Chess Library (ICL)
ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de   134.100.220.2   German ICL mirror at Univ. Hamburg
ftp.chessclub.com         204.171.44.50   Small archive maintained by ICC
ftp.pitt.edu              136.142.188.73  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://ics.onenet.net/chess/
http://www.traveller.com/chess/
http://www.ub.uit.no/chess/
http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mdcrowth/chess.html
http://www.hooked.net/users/chesswks/cwu.html
http://www.hydra.com/icc/
