Red Hot Pawn

Red Hot Pawn is a free website for correspondence chess play. I have a free account there, which allows me to play six games at once, all of whom are rated between 1100 and 1500 of the server rating.

So far, I've already won one of my games (after my opponent just hung a knight and then a rook), and I'm up two pieces in another game. I've never reached a winning position this quickly in correspondence chess before so I'm a little disappointed with the level of competition on the site.

One problem is that everybody starts out as 1200--Provisional, which means nobody who's even intermediate-strong (1500+) wants to me right now. I'll have to wait until my first rating (after 5 games) before getting a high enough rating for other players to actually play me.

I have a free account, but one can play unlimited games on this site for $40/year. Since I'm planning on being an active correspondence player in USCF and ICCF in 2010, I'm sticking to my 6 games.