Site official: https://arena.myfide.net/
Membership: 25 €/year PREMIUM Member; 50 €/year PLATINUM (FIDE) Service (all about: HERE)
You can play for free, a limited number of games and tournaments/day with Training Rating calculation.
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https://arena.myfide.net/registration-and-fees/download YOU NEED TO HAVE THE LAST JAVA, INSTALLED AND ENABLED IN YOUR COMPUTER!
Utilities offer: OFFICIAL RATING FIDE AND TITLES OR CATEGORY; PLAY; WATCH; USERNAME; CHAT; SAVE GAMES; STORED RATING; LIVE BROADCASTS; PERMANENTLY TOURNAMENTS (organized by the administrators); TITLED PLAYERS SIMULTANEOUS EXHIBITIONS (from time to time...); VIDEO LESSONS (not working very well the video); ANALYSIS WITH YOUR ENGINE; TRAINING; NEWS.
Tournaments prizes: free membership (for general standings of Grand Prix).
The best decision: DISPLAY REAL NAME OF FIDE MEMBERS.
What can improve: YEAR CHAMPIONSHIPS for all ratings category; MORE PRIZES tournaments; Administration and permanently moderator on the chat; MORE fighting against cheaters and new methods to detect it in real time (ACE GUARD not give expected results); More effective penalty for laggers; Add WEB VARIANT (without JAVA) and especially APP FOR MOBILE DEVICES; Add Swiss, Knock-out and Round Robin TEAM TOURNAMENTS; Add option for users to organize tournaments; Chess variants; Try to make the connection server stable when over 700 users are connected or there are more than 100 running games; Support help.
Conclusion: too expensive for what it offers!
Shopping store: NO