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Useful Links

General

Chessbase The latest chess news from the home of Fritz.
ChessOK (aka Convekta) Home of Chess Assistant, with free weekly games download.
Chess Cafe Chess journalism.
The Week in Chess News and a free weekly download of the latest games.
Computer Chess Club Where the computer chess geeks hang out.
The Daily Dirt Chess Blog Chess journalism from Mig Greenard.
Evcomp News The latest news in computer chess.
International Email Chess Group Play chess by email.
Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) Free online chess server.
Chessassistance.com Articles about Chess Assistant products.
Chess.About.com Mark Weeks' regularly updated guide to chess on the web.
Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities  Journalism, including the Open Chess Diary.
EN PASSANT - Nørresundby Chess Club  Chess publishing resources.
Home of the Dutch Rebel  Old chess programs and more!
Edward WInter's Chess Notes Tidbits of chess history.

UCI Engines

wbec-ridderkerk Detailed info on the winboard engines.
Logomania Logos by Wilhelm Hudetz and Uschi.
Logos by Dave Dahlem.
Rybka Chess Home of Rybka.
Shredder Chess Home of Shredder.
SDchess Russian site with good link pages to the top winboard/UCI engines
Le Fou numérique French site with regularly updated engine news and links.

Engine Rating Lists

CCRL 40/40, 32-bit single CPU engines.
CEGT 40/4, blitz, best single CPU versions.

Chess Databases

Lars Balzer's Links The most comprehensive list of freely downloadable chess game databases.
Jan van Reek's annotated game databases.
Chesslib 3,4 and 5 man Nalimov Endgame Tablebases for download.
Shredderchess Online databases Java access to 6 piece Endgame Tablesbases and opening move statistics.
ChessOK Online Nalimov Endgame Tablebases and opening book.

Old Chess Programs

Museum of Chess Programs
Home of the Underdogs
PH-Download (you'll need to turn off javascript if you want to see the page!)

Pocket PC and Palm

Axel Schumacher review of around 60 programs.
CEBoard for Pocket PC.
Thinkerboard for Pocket PC.
Pocket Chess Database for PPC.