Best Online Chess
A small detour from all things Ruby, PHP and Twitter today.
Recently I’ve formed an opinion about who has the Best Online Chess site. For years I endured the rudeness, the primitive interface, and the time spent wasted just trying to find a game with the Yahoo chess experience. No more. Chesscube made online chess fun again for me.
Not that I’ve played them all, but I’ve played a few other chess sites and there were either too few players, or it cost something to play, or something… Not only is Chesscube is free and very active: the interface is absolutely stunning, like a step forward in time vs. yahoo, which seems to be stuck in 1996. This is what online chess should look like, and play like!
I don’t spend a lot of time studying the free videos, because I don’t think I’m smart enough to get much better, but it’s cool that it’s all there for the ambitious among us. Chess news, records of your games and comprehensive stats, there are all kinds of extras. Moderators attend to the chat stream but it seems like there’s a friendly community feel to Chesscube anyway. It appears to be growing quickly– head over and check it out!
