The World Chess Network (WCN) was a commercial Internet chess server dedicated to the chess game launched in 1997 and closed ten years later in 2007 when it was bought by Internet Chess Club and merged with Chess Live to form World Chess Live. As a typical chess server, the network provided basic services such as conducting chess games online on the Internet between two human players. Chess tournaments were occasionally organized by the service, including a few games chosen between the famous chess masters where spectators could watch the game in real time. At its peak, the network was frequented by professional chess players, including great masters like Elena Donaldson, Susan Polgar, Larry Christiansen and Larry Evans. Continue reading
Chess24.com
Chess24.com is an Internet chess website in English, Spanish and German established in 2014. [2]
Among them are Viswanathan Anand , Peter Svidler , Rustam Kasimdzhanov , Artur Jussupow , Jan Gustafsson and Francisco Vallejo . [3] Continue reading
2016 in chess
Major Chess in the 2016 World Cup Chess Championship between Mariya Muzychuk and Hou Yifan , won by Hou Yifan, and the Candidates Tournament , won by Sergey Karjakin , who challenged Magnus Carlsen in the 2016 World Chess Championship . Magnus Carlsen won the title of World Chess Champion. Continue reading
Arnold Schottländer
Arnold Schottländer (2 April 1854 – 9 September 1909) was a German chess master. [1] Continue reading
Georg Schories
Georg Schories (George Shories) (9 January 1874, Berlin – 2 December 1934, Berlin) was a German chess master. [1] [2] Continue reading
Adolf Stern (chess player)
Adolf Stern (25 December 1849, Grünstadt , Rhineland-Palatinate – 24 August 1907, Mannheim ) was a German chess master. Continue reading
Hugo Süchting
Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (October 8, 1874 in Brackrade – December 27, 1916 in Valluhn ) was a German chess player. Continue reading
Berthold Suhle
Berthold Suhle (1 January 1837, Stolp , Province of Pomerania , now Poland – 26 January 1904, Germany ) was a German chess master. Continue reading
Oscar Tenner
Oscar Tenner (sometimes Oskar ) ( Hebrew : אוסקר טנר ; 5 April 1880, Lemberg [1] – 24 December 1948) was a German-American chess master. [2] Continue reading
Viktor Tietz
Viktor Tietz (13 April, 1859 Rumburg ( Czech : Rumburk , northwest Bohemia , Austrian Monarchy – December 8, 1937, Karlsbad ( Czech : Karlovy Vary ), Bohemia, Czechoslovakia ) Was a Czech ethnic-German chess player, chess life organizer and Local politician. [1] Continue reading