Last modified on Fri Jan 1 20:38:48 PST 1999 by mann Internet Chess Servers ---------------------- 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 207.99.5.190 5000 Internet Chess Club chess.net 5000 204.167.98.30 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 5000 130.238.251.208 5000 Sweden chess.mds.mdh.se 5555 130.238.251.208 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 FTP Servers ----------------- 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 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 -------------------------- 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/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.chessclub.com/