Answers.Body: <p>Actually FIDE publish a new chess platform named FIDE Online Area (<a href="http://arena.myfide.net/" rel="nofollow">http://arena.myfide.net/</a>) . Furthermore there are several tournaments to encourage chess players to use this arena such as ; </p>
  
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  <li>The 1st FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015 </li>
  <li>The 1st FIDE World Online Junior Blitz Championship 2015</li>
  <li>The 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Instead, ICC(Internet Chess Club) is the most visited online chess area among professional chess players. (<a href="http://www.chessclub.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chessclub.com/</a>)</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Yes, as you can see from the link ahead, titled players rate is very high on ICC.http://www6.chessclub.com/help/titles
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Body: <p>I remember this from the days entering high school ;) Fide.com has this very well made online game room, much like yahoo's in terms of functionality, but much cleaner and with some funky rating system (started at 0 and 20-30 was strong!).</p>
  
  <p>I also remember that the best players there, or those who won some online tournament there, would play on the actual Fide finals -- back in the days when it was knock-out 128 or something like that.</p>
  
  <p>I am just wondering when this got cancelled and the website got crapped into what it's now.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010707032253/http://www.fide.com/cgi-bin/material/main.pl" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is what it looked like then. Just wondering if there is an easy way to get to a top tournament today.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: The site still exists. http://arena.fide.com/ . It's not free though.
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Title: Around 00-01 Fide had a great online arena. What happened to that?
ThreadText: # Around 00-01 Fide had a great online arena. What happened to that?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-11-14)
  
  I remember this from the days entering high school ;) Fide.com has this very well made online game room, much like yahoo's in terms of functionality, but much cleaner and with some funky rating system (started at 0 and 20-30 was strong!).
  
  I also remember that the best players there, or those who won some online tournament there, would play on the actual Fide finals -- back in the days when it was knock-out 128 or something like that.
  
  I am just wondering when this got cancelled and the website got crapped into what it's now.
  
  [Here](http://web.archive.org/web/20010707032253/http://www.fide.com/cgi-bin/material/main.pl) is what it looked like then. Just wondering if there is an easy way to get to a top tournament today.
  
  **Tags:** fide, online
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: The site still exists. http://arena.fide.com/ . It's not free though.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-08-18. Score: 1
  
  Actually FIDE publish a new chess platform named FIDE Online Area (<http://arena.myfide.net/>) . Furthermore there are several tournaments to encourage chess players to use this arena such as ;
  
  * The 1st FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015
  * The 1st FIDE World Online Junior Blitz Championship 2015
  * The 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015.
  
  Instead, ICC(Internet Chess Club) is the most visited online chess area among professional chess players. (<http://www.chessclub.com/>)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: Interesting! Can you give a reference for your claim about ICC?  
  > **username_2**: Yes, as you can see from the link ahead, titled players rate is very high on ICC.http://www6.chessclub.com/help/titles  
  
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