The ability to play chess games on the Internet has been a popular feature of the new digital age among both long-time enthusiasts for one of the world’s most popular and respected games, and new converts to the love for chess games. Among games websites, websites which give to their users the opportunity of being able to conduct their chess games over the Internet have in a few cases experienced marked popularity and in the process attained the status of becoming a daily stop for Internet users. As with other kinds of games which can be found on the Internet, online services which offer chess games through Internet connections can offer a new array of features associated with games to players, such as the ability to pick from a larger pool of prospective opponents and thereby match their own abilities and experience in playing games to the skill level of their opponents. Since the early period of the Internet as a widely and commercially available service, placed on a basis of access widely spread through a technologically proficient and developed society, websites which offer prospective players the chance to conduct their chess games on the Internet have been online. This innovation of the digital age in regard to games was accomplished through the development and implementation of a feature of the technology available to Internet companies which are referred to commonly as Internet chess servers.
The development of Internet chess servers as a tool for achieving the interests which many people hold in regard to playing games through a digital medium can be traced back by the student of chess games to the period of the early nineteen seventies, at which time the PLATO system provided for the creation of a program which was referred to by its creators as “chess3.” Only a small number of people involved in playing games had any form of access to this kind of technology, as of yet the technology for providing the availability of online services was only its early form. At this point, the “chess2″ program was only used by the people directly involved in creating it. The interest of people involved in developing games for the enjoyment of online users was revived by the expansion in the sophistication of the technology in the early nineteen nineties, at which point the capacity to be able to play chess games through a network of computers connected to each other came to seem newly practicable. Accordingly, in 1992 the Internet Chess Server was created and based in Carnegie Mellon University servers. Three years later, the growing popularity of commercially available games as were provided through the Internet led one of the creators of the initial form in which the Internet Chess Server had at first been offered on a non-profit basis to make it available through payment of a regular subscription. Today the Internet Chess Server provides for the chess games played by a wide range of users and has widespread user support.
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