Chess...

Originally Posted by croatan

I've been playing on fics (the free internet chess server - http://www.freechess.org/) off and on since 1994. It's come a long way (there are graphical interfaces now ), but it's always been the best place I know of to get a good game. Many experts, masters, and grand masters play there and you can set whatever sort of time control you like.

Thanks for that, I'm registering for it now