www.chessmaniac.com

Central California's Chessmaniac is an excellent correspondence chess site on par with the British Schemingmind chess site. One of the great features I like in Chessmaniac is that you know who is online, and you can instant message them to accelerate your games. This is especially helpful in quick tournaments. Getting little graphic medals beside your user name is a nifty motivator. (My user name on Chessmaniac is Dienekes--the main character in Stephen Pressfield's novelization of the Battle of Thermopylae. Getting wiped out was the theme there, and this theme unfortunately surfaces in my chess play as well!)

If you like chess, go there and check it out. If you have homework, don't go there. It will pull you in and your grades will suffer!