suwiki.org — An independant developer has added the ability to play Chess online inside of Google Earth. It also has chat capabilities. Install Google Earth 4.x beta, then follow the directions on this site. The interesting part about the new Chess capability is toward the top of this article.
Oct 7, 2006 View in Crawl 4
ashleyjoyceDec 23, 2006
Google Earth Chess (GEChess) now has over 600 registered players. <a class="user" href="http://www.gechess.org">http://www.gechess.org</a> to register and start playing.