Chess is a knife fight.

The best place to play chess is at https://lichess.org which is totally free including the world's best computer analysis of your games. There are no ads and it never will have any ads, and it will always be free. Also the website is clean, beautiful, and everything is easy to understand.

Also at https://lichess.org/tv you can watch chess masters play chess. Even people who don't know how to play chess might like to watch these war movies.

Thanks to https://lichess.org my living room in Florida is an international chess club. I never have to wait more than 5 seconds for an opponent. They live in Russia, Iran, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and North America.

Wikipedia: Lichess

Lichess was founded by Thibault Duplessis, a French programmer. The software running Lichess and the design are open source under the AGPL license.^[21]

As of 31 March 2017, lichess.org had the global rank 2,427 at Alexa, with most of its visitors coming from the United States, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, and Iran.^[1]