Here's some Web sites I think are worth investigating (the ones that are still up, anwyay):

• bughouse.net. A site maintained by David Chong, aka SuperGrover, this is the best centralized area for bughouse information on the Internet. You can go there to learn how to play bughouse on the Internet, find other bughouse sites (he does a much better job of keeping his links page up to date that I do), get strategy tips, learn about other buggers, and downware software such as the BPGN viewer. Plus, there is a very interesting message board where bughouse players swap ideas on strategies and items of interest.

• The Ultimate Bughouse Database An impressive technical achievement, this site by Chris Ashton, aka Takaru, has been logging every bughouse game on the FICS for a few years now - to date, that is a few hundred thousand games. (Tasunder's database, where I obtained most of the .bpgn files used for my annotated games, is apparently out of service.) Ashton's site is an excellent vehicle for research, such as finding out which openings are preferred by the top players or figuring out how to bust that line some annoying player has been using to beat you.

• Bughouse in Europe/The Bughouse Academy This site maintained by Daniel Denes, aka Marv, includes tournament information and results for European buggers. If you don't live in Europe, however, there are also some excellent strategy pages in The Bughouse Academy section of his Web site. There you will find strategy tips and puzzles, along with (the last time I checked) 5 annotated games by top players viewable with the BPGN Viewer.

• Ebenfelt's Bughouse Page. Ebenfelt's page is a nice potpourri of anything bughouse. There's strategy, opinion, history, you name it.

• La Page d'echecs de Fabrice Liardet. Brush up on your French first, then check out this site by the strong Swiss player, Fabrice Liardet, aka nabla. His bughouse material includes some original problems, pointers on strategy, and two annotated games viewable with the BPGN viewer. (Aside from the annotated games on my Web site and the games at bughouse.info, these are the only annotated games on the Internet using the viewer that I know about.)

• Vassili Sukharev's Bughouse Page. Sukharev, aka Blackcomb, is the programmer who created BugAssistant and other programs for bughouse players. His programs can be downloaded from this Web site.

• Sasha Goldshtein's Bughouse Page. Goldshtein has a lot of interesting material on his Web site - I especially like his write-up on endgame databases. For the buggers, there is an article on attacking in bughouse that is well above the attack-on-f7 essays you sometimes see from players who know a lot less than they think.

• Flesh's Bughouse Page. This page may be gone, which is a pity. The highlight of Flesh's very witty Web page were his player interviews, giving the Internet bughouse arena a nice human touch.

• Tecumseh's Bughouse Page. Apparently, this page has also disappeared. (As Alice said in Through the Looking Glass, "Web pages come and go so quickly around here!" - or something close to that.) If it comes back from the dead, however: Georg Zimmermann, aka Tecumseh, is a talented player and noteworthy tactician. His Web site includes a timed bughouse quiz and articles on when and how to attack in bughouse.