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Turn based / Correspondence chessworld free - no download , good for correspondence chess letsplaychess alias for chessworld RedHotPawnCorrespondence Its your turncorrespondence, free and paid membership too Correspondencecorrespondence, free and paid membership too
NetChess news Good news roundup, Australian-based site - good junior info the ACF bulletin Good weekly Australia news
The Week In Chess
Twic is a weekly roundup of what has been happening in the Chess World - don't miss it. Usually has more than 1,000 games,
State & Federal Organisations
ACF with current games
Australian Chess Federation; NSWCA site better information-wise but the national Association is the National association after all. One of the nifty features is quite a few clubs have their competition calendars here. NSWCA
A very complete site - has articles on ethics; tournament play; Ratings; Tournament histories and you should make sure you bookmark this one, also has lots of Australian links - probably/certainly more up-to-date than this one. NSW Junior Chess League
A branch off the NSWCA site - good list of who to contact Corresponence Chess League of Autralia
Has Correspondence Ratings and other bits & pieces SACA
Chess in South Australia, good list of South Australian clubs & addresses, much still under construction last I looked (Aug 1998) but looks real promising, the maintainer, Joe, has beaten me OTB easily so he must be good :-)
Organisations & Clubs
Australia
New South Wales
Mingara Chess Club
One of the better content-wise Aust sites, the maintainer posts not only round by round results of their tournaments but the next rounds' pairing, so that players who are keen and on the net can find out their upcoming opponent ! Ettalong White Knights of Toukley/Kanwal
Wollongong Very nice site - updated regularly, local news as well as chess current affairs
Newcastle Newcastle, Maitland and surrounding areas
Randy Bauer homepage Randy is a US National Chessmaster, there's lots at this site - including high quality annotations to some very instructive games Pittsburgh archives Not only has lots of utilities but has an enormous collection of games - in PGN format and others, of openings, tournaments, famous player's games etc
Programs
Database
"God's Database Program" AKA CDB - very nice freeware PGN (& lots of other filetypes) gameviewer & tree viewer. Chessbase heaps of Chess programs at this site but particularly cblight which is a free version of the fine Chess Database program Chess Assistant Good Database Tasc Database and playing program GambitSoft has a heap of freeware; shareware and demo programs