User:The wikimaster007/sandbox

Visitors to the site can play on a live chess server and correspondence style games, referred to on the site as "turn-based". Players may also play against chess engines, and participate in voting games, in which players form teams and vote on the best move. Additional features include tactics training, chess forums, articles, chess news, downloads, openings databases, groups, live broadcasts, daily puzzles, online coaching and a game database of over 2 million games.

On the site, players are able to learn to play at any level, take part in discussion forums and watch chess events.[16] Another popular feature is clubs (or teams), which can play matches against each other.

The company has a popular prodigy program, a branch of their chess mentor, with a variety of videos to take novice to chess master level in years.

The company publishes a large number of articles on a variety of chess-related topics, including chess strategy, opening theory and history. Regular contributors include Gregory Serper, Bruce Pandolfini, Rafael Leitão, Dan Heisman, Jeremy Silman, Petar Genov, Macer75, Daniel Naroditsky, Natalia Pogonina and Daniel Rensch

Users can player a number of variants on the live server, including crazyhouse, three-check, king of the hill, 960 chess and bughouse.