The World Chess Network provided a number of services to its subscribers.

It also advertised itself as a venue for real-world chess players seeking to improve their playing skills.

It also provided a service called Banter Chess; With this service, spectators watched two Masters play a game while explaining their moves and thoughts out loud, allowing the spectators to learn how high-ranked players conduct their games.

The interface used by the website was the a proprietary chess software called Mgichess.

The article featured a match on the network between American Grandmaster (GM) Larry Christiansen and the Canadian International Master (IM) Pascal Charbonneau.