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Free chess games are nowadays available on the Internet. Players can log on to specific sites and download these games, as the term indicates, for free. Chess, a popular indoor game played between two players on a board of sixty four squares, has now crossed international boundaries with the availability of online versions. Online chess has enabled players to sit in different geographic locations across the world and play the game in real time. There are different types of online chess, each coming with a range of options. First of all, there are the free chess games, which can be downloaded from specific websites for free. At these free sites, players can also chat, review and watch grandmasters play each other. Beginners need not worry; free chess games come with instructions for them, along with options like saving a game, downloading a game, playing via e-mail, etc. The user interfaces at these sites are made attractive too using graphical HTML files and animations. The idea of having attractive user interfaces is, obviously, to bring in more traffic to the site. The user needs to register themselves at these free sites in order to avail these facilities. The registration is free. Then there are the pay sites. These sites are different from free chess sites in that the players have to pay some form of registration fee to get on board the site and start playing. Pay sites usually have lesser number of first timers. The first such online chess game was started way back in 1980, when a group of chess enthusiasts opened the Internet Chess Server (ICS). Over time, the ICS, which was initially popular among only a few people, grew in popularity as commercial viability came into the picture. Once that happened, numerous features were added on to the ICS to make it more appealing to the masses. Try to play a free online chess game.
 
   
   
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