You can find a game 24/7. There are tons of educational and historical aids along with Grand Masters giving live high quality commentary about the latest opening wrinkle or just recently excellent coverage of the World Championship match between Magnus Carlson and Vishy Anand. (Fpawn say it isn't so Vishy)
A chess player can always view his record in his last 20 games with time stamped outcome of game and opponent. I play a lot of 3 minute chess there and you would be amazed at the number of high quality games one can play even reaching theoretical endings that are quite useful to know in OTB USCF competition. Below is display of my last twenty ICC games where I finally made it over 1700 in 3 minute blitz chess. My record was 13 wins, 6 losses, and one draw over that particular 20 game span.
As you can see ICC player TommyGunn has my number, phil2force has a mercurial hedgehog style where he lures you in only to rip your heart out, JohnCohen is a solid opponent who will not beat himself, worldcitizen is a very principled uncompromising player, long time ICC member velvetfrog is more of a bulldog than an amphibian, chesskabob as his handle indicates is a little bit of everything and difficult to play against, RaiseTheCurve appears to be an erudite academician who is vulnerable if you get him out of his memorized opening theory, and mosheianina is strong expert from Israel that I managed to beat this time, but he has significant overall winning record against me.
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