I love chess. But, having small kids, I do not have enough time to play it on the board. So I play it on the net.

There are plenty of chess sites and I tried quite a lot of them. So ... here are some recommendations.

This article is about places where one plays real-time games, be they blitz, rapid, or slow-time.

ECTool is very nice shareware application for the email-chess player. Worth mentioning that while it is Windows program, it works without any problems under Linux (using wine emulator).

Article below explains how to use ECTool with email server, which require SSL connection (not handled by ECTool itself).