How to invite friend who does not have chess.com account to play?

Hello,

While this should be intuitive, it's not as clear as I thought it would be.  I've just realized I could use chess.com or a site like it to play chess with an old friend of mine who lives several states from me, but it hinges on whether the link generated when I start a game can allow someone who doesn't already have a chess.com account to play.  Can it?  And if it doesn't, is there a site that does?  Thanks.  

I'm confused.  Membership is free and takes less than 5 minutes to set up.  Why not just have your friend get an account?

That's a possibility, but I want to cover all my bases.  

I don't do Facebook, but I know you can display your games there; maybe you can play as well?

https://www.chess.com/home/friends

Go to add/invite friends tab, you’ll see how.

Both players have to have an account to play here. 

Thanks, Martin.  

My Dad cant figure out how to create an account and it's completely pointless for anyone to try to explain it to him on the phone. So thats a reason why it would be nice if I could just send him a link to immediately play.

Three weeks after I broached the subject, my friend he was too busy.  That was fine.  Then he said I should set up and account for him and pay an fees after I had assured him there were none.  Let's just say the issue has not been discussed since.  

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Try this:

https://www.chess.com/play/online
Play a friend
Challenge link
copy the link and mail it.

edit: doesn't work though - invites you to register

lichess allows this. You can just go on lichess, press 'play with friend' and send him the resulting link

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