Chess

"Life's too short for chess." - Henry James (1843-1916)

Variants

• Atomic Chess
• Crazyhouse Chess (and its related variants)
• Losing Chess (both Suicide Chess and Loser's Chess)
• Reversed Chess (Upside Down Chess)

Playing Chess on the Internet

• Introduction
• Internet Chess Servers (ICSes)
• Interfaces for ICSes
• Timeseal and Lag
• Ratings Manipulation

History of ICSes

• History of ICSes Part 1 (What is an ICS) and Part 2 (What happened to the first ICS)
• History of ICSes Part 3 (What is FICS) and Part 4 (The chess.net Scandal)
• History of ICSes Part 5 (The Death Knell of Small Servers) and Part 6 (US Chess Live!)
• History of ICSes Part 7 (Why Yahoo! Is NOT an ICS) and Part 8 (Five Years of Reflection)

The ICS Chronicles

• Paul Truong: A Person You Should Be Aware Of (1999-2000)
• Fatal Image's Real Deal Rants (2000)