Internet Chess Club

The Internet Chess Club (ICC ) is a commercial chess server that allows chess players from around the world, around the clock to find an adequate match partner. He has over 30,000 members today by its own account.

The Internet Chess Club was founded in March 1995, was the predecessor of the Internet Chess Server (ICS ). One of the leading developers of the software is Daniel Sleator, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, who was initially involved since 1992, volunteer in the development, the source code then but left in 1994 to protect by copyright. The communication with the server is running on the proprietary client software BlitzIn (currently version 2.52 ) or ICC Dasher (currently version 1.5.4). Also, several chess variants are supported.

Very quickly after the official opening of the club, the membership grew to over 10,000, although there were some Forks as the Free Internet Chess Server ( FICS ), which continued to be made free games. The attractiveness of the chess player is in the fact that the world's best players are members, and participate in at irregular intervals in the game mode in fact. From the 13th World Champion Garry Kasparov and 14 World Champion Vladimir Kramnik played a variety of roles has been obtained and published. Membership is chargeable, for titleholders (GM and IM) it is free.

Each registered member may select a user name that allows it when necessary, to keep his real name a secret. Many have but her name specified in your user data. Mostly flash or bullet games are played, while members can earn a rating of.

The ICC transmits batches of grandmaster tournaments from around the world. Of particularly important parts of expert comment Grandmaster front of a large audience the moves played. There are also lectures and simultaneous exhibitions. Online training can be paid with a Chekel called the calculating unit.