Today I setup an account on
GameKnot.com for playing chess online. If anyone wants to challenge me to a game there, my handle is stevepavlina, so please feel free. It's free to register for an account.
I've only played about 15 games total thus far (against computer opponents), so I doubt I'll be much of a challenge if you're halfway decent, but I don't mind getting trounced for the learning experience. I'm open to playing total beginners too, as long as you at least know how the pieces move and what checkmaste is.
If you aren't familiar with the site, the games aren't in real-time, so you can take as much time as you need to make a move, days if you want. You get sent an email when it's your turn to move. So this way I could probably handle a goodly number of simultaneous games. I only ponder my moves for a few minutes at most.
The site automatically assigned me a rating of 1200 when I joined, so that wasn't earned. It says that once I play 10-20 games or so, my rating should adjust to a reasonable approximation. I'm curious to see where I land ratings-wise.
I didn't want to post this on the blog, since I'd be concerned about getting invites to 1000 games at once.