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.