What is the best on line chess site?
The Internet Chess Club (ICC) where you can play in tournaments at a variety of time controls, observe grandmasters play blitz, get instant updates of your rating after every game, etc. You can have a free trial for a week or play as a guest. It has some 30,000 members so you can always be sure of getting a game with someone of your own strength (unless you are Garry Kasparov!) http://www.chessclub.com Chessgames.com is a huge database of 500,000 or so games, where you can look up games played by your favourite players in their favourite openings.