Chess on Yahoo! Games is a popular aspect of Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Many of the games that require a download...

. It allows users to play rated or unrated chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

, including tournaments, leagues, and ladders. Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Many of the games that require a download...

 can be accessed for chess using a Java enabled browser. Efforts to emulate chess servers are in development through YICS, wherein Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Many of the games that require a download...

 may be accessed through a standard FICS-style chess client. Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Many of the games that require a download...

 is currently one of the large online sites where chess players meet, but has been criticized for its rating and computer abuse, spammers, failure to implement the Portable Game Notation

Portable Game Notation

Portable Game Notation is a computer-processible format for recording chess games ; many chess programs recognize this extremely popular format due to its being stored in plain text.-History:...

 standard, (actually PGN has been implemented on Yahoo!, though it is easy to overlook) and awkward structure. Chess on Yahoo! Games lacks many of the features of standard chess servers.

On their 2008 album CSI:Ambleside

CSI:Ambleside

CSI:Ambleside is the eleventh album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in April 2008.The "CSI" in the title is a reference to the CSI franchise, whilst Ambleside is a small town in northern England.-Track listing:...

 the British band Half Man Half Biscuit released a song entitled "Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess".

See also

FICS

Free Internet Chess Server

The Free Internet Chess Server is a volunteer-run Internet chess server. It was organised as a free alternative to the Internet Chess Club , after that site began charging for membership.-History:...

 - Free Internet Chess Servers. An advanced free chess server similar to Yahoo! Chess

Internet Chess Club

Internet Chess Club

The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC currently has over 30,000 subscribing members...

(ICC) - Internet Chess Servers. Similar to Yahoo! Chess, not free, but grandmasters play there.