Chesslab It's free, searchable and big! (JAVA req.)
Gambitsoft Shareware chess programs
Gary Kasparov's homepage
Pittsburgh (games collections, converters)
Dutchbase All games of historic Dutch tournaments
FIDE homepage
Mark Crowther's The Week In Chess
Turnierkalender (Germany a.o.)
Schach.com
Rochade Terminkalender
Calendar Belgiė
CAISSA Woluwé chess club, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Buggs' Chess Page (Germany)
Echecs ą Grenoble (France)
Graphics & Links
Rashit's homepage (very cool page on chess technique and other stuff)
You'll just need to download this Winboard-4_0_0 self-installing Graphical User Interface for Windows95 and Windows NT by Tim Mann
Or download gilly's "lightningrulez" interface, which I like even better.
FICS would be an even more wonderful place if everyone would stick to this: SST-club
If you only have a telnet window, click here for the: American server
German server