Chess Servers

With Arena you can log in to many different Internet Chess Servers (ICS) and play there as guest or registered user against players in the whole world.

And that's the way it works:

  • Connect to the Internet
  • Start Arena.
  • With the Globe of the Tool bar, Extras / Internet Chess Server or Ctrl+I you reach the
  • dialogue for choosing the Internet Chess Server.
  • Select the server and log-in
  • Now you can play chess in the way you know it. You can also observe games, chat
  • etc. If you're not so familiar with chess servers, just type 'help' at the command line. Also you can select from a variety of pre-defined commands from a pop up menu if you click the right mouse button.
  • With the globe of the Toolbar, Extras / Internet Chess Server or Ctrl+I you end the ICS
  • Mode .

Bughouse and Crazyhouse are not supported. Only normal chess is supported, maybe some 'wild' variants work.

Logging-in

Screen areas

Options

Defining buttons