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Where to play Correspondence Chess

International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF)

The most important global CC organisation, running many national and international tournaments on its own webserver.

If you are not yet ready to play internationally-rated CC, a good place to start for you may be:

Scheming Mind, an independent server group which is affiliated to ICCF.

Other long established alternatives:

International Email Chess Group (IECG)

Many of their events are known on the LSS server.

International Email Chess Club (IECC)

A free tournament starting soon:

The German e-mail Correspondence Chess Club (DESC) invites entries from everyone for the DESC Open. It is a free event: no entry fees. register by 19 September 2009 by sending an email to michaelschirmer@desc-online.de. Include the following details:

a) your family name; b) first name; c) email address; d) the remark "Anmeldung zum DESC-Open 2009".

More information at http://www.desc-online.de/turniere/open/2009/

Play will start on 1 October.

Other clubs & CC servers

Playchess
Webmaster: Thomas Stahl. Popular German-run CC server (in English) with a wide range of events starting continuously.
Chessworld
Webmaster: Tryfon Gavriel. English-run server.
Itsyourturn.com
Early-established American-run game server with wide range of board games.
Stan's NetChess
One of the earliest CC servers.
Gameknot
Popular server: good for friendly games .
Red Hot Pawn
Now well established.
RemoteSchach
A German site.
Kingchess
Another German server.
Scheming Mind Online Correspondence Chess Club
Another private server! Webmaster: Austin Lockwood
ChessCorner
Another web-based email chess and forum site.
My Chess
A German server, by Matthias Karkowski.

The above is not a complete list of servers where CC may be played; we may add to it later.