Where to Play Chess Online Web-based resources let you play chess online at any time of the day against opponents anywhere in the world. If you like to play chess, but have never played online chess, our first question is, 'Why not?' If your answer is, 'There are so many places to play, I don't know where to start', then this tour is for you. We look at three game sites that offer dozens of different games along with chess : MSN, Pogo, and Yahoo. We'll be using our trio as a baseline when we look at the online play sites which specialize in chess. Continuing our series on 'Where to Play', this is the second article on sites that offer online chess play. Here we look at Chess.net, FICS, and InstantChess. At least one of them is a free site and one offers unlimited free play. The third in our series of online play articles covers two sites claiming World Network status : World Chess Network and World Chess21 Network. One offers a 15 day free guest membership, while the other appears to offer basic services at no cost. The fourth in our series of online play articles covers three sites that aspire to be major players in the world of online chess : the Internet Chess Club (ICC), Playchess.com by ChessBase, and U.S. Chess Live (USCL). The fifth in a series of online play articles compares 11 sites. For this last article we combined our observations across all sites and added a few new comments on functions that we consider to be the most important. We also attempted to assign an overall rating to each site. Here we list a few sites which we failed to look at on our first round of reviews. Most of these sites are free; some of them have play for cash programs. | 
| 