Top 3 best places to play Free Live Chess online on the internet

There are so many sites to play live chess online on the web but some has too few members and it's hard to find someone to play with (opponent). Some sites has cool features and good interfaces but there are too much annoying ads and longer time to load meaning longer waiting times. Some websites has so small boards that you can't make it larger. Some has problems that I don't want to mention. Some sites are purely PAID (you have to purchase membership). I have tried and played on most of these sites but based on my own experience, these chess sites below are the:


Top 3 best places to play Free Live Chess online on the internet:

1. CHESS.COM ON FACEBOOK    http://apps.facebook.com/chessfb/

Chess.com http://www.chess.com/ is the best place to play Chess online on the internet. You can play live chess, correspondence (email) chess, tournaments, chess videos to learn from, chess tactics trainer, chess openings, chess mentor (virtual chess coach). You can also join chess groups, solve the Daily Chess Puzzle, see the Game of the Day, Opening of the Day and much more.

You can either play on the Facebook site or the Chess.com site (bigger board). Lots of available players from all over the world, friendly seek graph, cool interface, play against the computer, play with your friends, chat, chess analysis, select from many chess rooms, put on your flag/country, picture or avatar, has a chess forum and so much more resources. Note that some features are available only for paid members. Also note that being a free member is good enough to enjoy playing chess!


2. Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) http://www.freechess.org/  using BABASCHESS Client http://www.babaschess.net/

Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org) is a free chess server with over 300,000 registered users. It is one of the oldest and one of the largest internet chess servers in the world. Availability to play various chess variants. Excellent for any level of the player. You can play also against the computer or any player in the world that is available.

BabasChess is a Free Internet Chess Client (Chess GUI - Graphical User Interface) used for playing on the FICS server. BabasChess can run on Windows and Linux operating systems. It has a nice, attractive, fast and customizable playing environment, with chat, emoticons, sound effects and other cool features. It also has a powerful PGN viewer/editor, chess engines support for analyzing positions, solving mates, chess puzzles and other grandmaster or classic games. BabasChess is totally free and supports many different major languages in the world. 


3. YAHOO CHESS  http://ca.games.yahoo.com/games/login?game=Chess

You need a Yahoo ID and password in order to play. Once logged in, you can select from four rooms namely: Social, Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. When you select a room, wait for the Java applet to load. If you click the Play Now button, and an opponent is available, you can then press Start Game to start playing chess. You can also click the Create Table to make ready a table, set time, sound, show last move options. Once a table is created, you can Invite a player or Boot a player. The Sit button will allow you to join the game with the corresponding color (Black or White).

The Yahoo Chess Games site and server has many players from all over the world with different levels of strength. It has also a nice, easy to navigate, friendly, and cool graphical user interface.