# Please recommend a two-player online chess game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 14, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267 "2011-02-14T02:11:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267/1 "2011-02-14T02:11:57Z")

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I recently met a friend’s young son, who is a chess player and wants to play online. (They live in Georgia, I live in Minnesota.) What is a good free site where friend’s son and I can play chess against each other online?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267/2 "2011-02-14T14:01:12Z")

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bump

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**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267/3 "2011-02-14T14:31:30Z")

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[Chesscube.com](http://www.chesscube.com/). This site runs in your browser using Flash, so you don’t need to download a separate program.

[FICS](http://www.freechess.org). The Free Internet Chess Server. This requires that you install an interface program to connect and play.

There are also a number of pay sites, such as PlayChess and ICC.

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**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267/4 "2011-02-14T20:48:49Z")

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Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-two-player-online-chess-game/571267/5 "2011-02-14T21:11:43Z")

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I used [gameknot.com](http://gameknot.com) for a while, and it was both free and did about everything I’d want an online chess game to do.