The Internet Chess Servers are services that you can telnet to and use to play chess with many other players around the world, both human and machine.
The following is a list of the main servers using a version of FICS:
| BICS: | holly.warwick.ac.uk 5000 | (137.205.192.12 5000) | British | 1.2.18 |
| EICS: | eics.daimi.aau.dk 5000 | (130.225.18.157 5000) | EUROPEAN | 1.2.23 |
| FICS: | fics.onenet.net 5000 | (164.58.253.13 5000) | US MAIN | 1.3.2 |
| G-FICS: | getnet.com 4000 | (204.157.9.29 4000) | US AZ | 1.2.18 |
| UCHICS: | cipres.cec.uchile.cl 5000 | (146.83.5.130 5000) | Chilean | 1.2.18 |
| SICS: | chess.mds.mdh.se 5000 | (130.238.251.208 5000) | Swedish | 1.3.0 |
| Z-FICS: | ics.interdomian.net.au 5000 | (203.17.167.4 5000) | Australian | 1.2.2 |
| fly.cc.fer.hr 7890 | (161.53.70.130 7890) | Croatia | 1.6.2 | |
| gsi.gsini.net 5000 | (206.20.43.1 5000) | USA |
Alternative sites:
| GICS: | chess.unix-ag.uni-kl.de 5000 | (131.246.89.4 5000) | German | (KL1.7.1) |
| DICS: | dics.dds.nl 5000 | (194.109.20.8 5000) | Dutch | (KL1.7) |
| F-FICS: | chess.eerie.fr 5000 | (146.19.2.4 5000) | French | (1.6.4) |
WWW-server:
| URL: | http://chess.onenet.net/chess/ |
| URL: | http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~chess/ |
FTP-servers:
| chess.onenet.net | (164.58.253.10) |
| ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de | (134.100.220.2) |
| ftp.daimi.aau.dk | [for timeseal files for use on Euro FICS] |
To connect to a chess server use: telnet <address> 5000
To connect to an ftp server use:
ftp <server> (Login: ftp, Passwd: <emailaddr>)