Bored with playing chess against the Computer? Why not pit your skills against another person. NetChess allows you to connect to Internet Chess Servers like freechess.org and play people from all over the world.

Internet chess is like IRC (chat) with chess so if you don't want to play you can just talk, watch a game, take in a lecture, observe a game or if you are really good you can chat and play at the same time.

With NetChess, besides normal chess, you can play all the chess variants the server supports like crazyhouse, suicide and many wild variants - which variants are available depends on which server you are connected to.

Registered Users

You can upgrade to the latest versions at the NetChess private area