Services available

• playing chess at time controls ranging from twenty seconds to several hours for the whole game
• a player rating system, based on the Elo system, categorized by type of game including correspondence
• watching games played by titled players
• live broadcast of grandmaster tournaments with professional audio commentary and text commentary
• live audio interviews, simultaneous exhibitions, a searchable database of games played on ICC etc. by titled players
• libraries of games of historic tournaments, famous players, and recent tournaments
• recorded lectures on various chess themes
• tournaments
• private lessons by professionals (by player arrangement only, and at additional cost)
• a variety of chess variants, including bughouse, crazyhouse, loser's chess, atomic chess, kriegspiel
• chat channels on both chess and non-chess topics
• computer opponents for practising tactics, endgames, and solving mate problems
• non-chess entertainments including a trivia game, betting on ICC (and other) tournaments, a variation of the game Legend of the Red Dragon, and a text-based version of Monopoly