The biggest chess club on the net has some of the strongest world's grandmasters among its members. It is possible to play live or watch live other people playing. Live coverage of world tournaments and much more.

RusChess
St. Petersburgh's web site with simple yet powerful user interface. Features games commented by top grandmasters, chess school and database of games from the most significant Russian chess happenings.

Chaturangam
Best Indian chess site covers in detail all tournaments featuring leading Indian chess players, starting with Anand. Also features calendar of events as well as games from selected Indian tournaments.

Grandmaster Chess

Alexander Khalifman's web pages feature training advices for all levels of chess players. There are shopping capabilities for chess software, books and chess sets. Also features a database of games of best today's players and best players from the past.

University of Pittsburgh FTP server

University of Pittsburgh FTP site is the best free resource for games, demo and full featured chess software. Games of all levels have been sorted by when they were played, by tournaments, players, openings etc.

Chess Archeology

If you want to look back in chess history and find out more about past tournaments and players, this is a place to go. There you can find a large library and museum, and you can search for specific events in specific countries.

German Chess Federation

Official site of German Chess Federation. Features information on tournaments in Germany and all over the world. There is a search capability for calendar of events for the whole Europe. Special sections have been devoted for chess trainers and arbiters.

Chess International

Good German web pages featuring events in various countries. Many interesting sections.

Hellas Chess Club

Another place to find tournament tables and games of all significant tournaments, with special emphasis on Greece. Features current rating lists, both FIDE and PCA(!), as well as free rating calculation software.

Ajedrez

This web site is similar to one listed above, but here the emphasis has been placed on current events i.e. actual chess tournaments. Features tournament archive for the last two years.

Chess Cafe

A popular site created by a team of distinguished chess players, writers, composers and arbiters. It is updated very often and features interesting interviews, chess history articles, problems, book reviews etc.

Computer Chess

These pages give you a lot of info on chess computers and PC chess software (prices and addresses included). Features computer chess tournament games and current computer chess rating lists.

Europe Echecs

Chess in France. Timetables for French tournaments for this (and maybe next) year, and actual news. You can calculate your rating or play against Jester, Java chess program (but if you want to play, you can do it right now, just click here).

Notzai

One of the top French chess sites. Many interesting sections and links to current events. Calendar of chess events for many European countries. Information about many tournaments of all levels.

Schaak.pagina.nl

Rich, usable, up to date list of chess links, sorted by category. Free access and download of various databases.