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Informations FICGS directory : Chess openings , Countries , Encyclopedia , Players , Databases A free database full of chess games played by famous players... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Paris, 2024 May 17 8:42:45 See also the FICGS rules. Here are some statistics (highest rated players, total number of members) and SEO informations (PageRank, Alexa Rank, backlinks, visitors) for the site. See also the archives FICGS informations (2024 May 01) Keyword : "correspondence chess" Google rank : 51 Yahoo rank : ? Google rank "chess" : ? Google rank "internet chess" : ? Google rank "play chess online" : ? Google rank "play chess app" : ? Total statistics : Members : 14439 Members (active) : 238 Forum posts : 13680 Wikichess : 241343 Games : 145122 Games finished : 143781 Best game : # 140744 Top chess rating (active) : FEM Alberto Gueci, 2580 Top chess rating (playing) : FIM Ramil Germanes, 2510 Top advanced chess rating : FSM Herbert Kruse, 2648 Top big chess rating : Stephane Legrand, 2304 Top Go rating (active) : Heinz Georg Lehnhoff 1 dan, 2124 Top poker holdem rating : Nelson Bernal Varela, 2353 As you can see, the total number of players (chess, Go & poker holdem included) increased more slowly until 2017 than it used to from 2006 to 2010. That was before the FICGS chess applications for Android, then the launch of the Chess Trainer on Facebook. Correspondence chess does not attract all players of the world, particularly when chess engines like Stockfish, Komodo or Houdini are authorized, which is considered as cheating by many of them. But the aim here is not to gather all kind of players, it is well known that it is not possible to please everyone. Here, all databases and engines are authorized, many players are so called centaurs. Finally, FICGS got APPs to play on mobile phones to attract more casual players. At the end, FICGS remains recognized as a major chess organization, different from most internet chess servers and makes its possible to be the place for the highest level chess, and a peaceful & constructive community as well. Despite of the many successes of chess engines over humans, it seems that the global popularity of online chess did not change for years. Internet chess remains lots of fun, but it is probable that correspondence chess (played at very long time controls, like 30 days + 1 day per move) has become less interesting for many players since that the part of human analysis significantly decreased in terms of pertinence, even for the very best players of the world, compared to the computers one. In a way, correspondence chess may have melted with freestyle chess. Also, the number of running games indicates that Go (weiqi, baduk) and Poker holdem attract more and more players, probably because of their bigger complexity. Anyway, soon or later, AlphaZero & newer artificial intelligences will undoubtly beat all humans in every cards and board games, maybe even in sports too very soon. Fortunately, this does not make chess, Go & poker less fun & interesting to learn and play. Here is the list of all connected players, this list is refreshed as soon as a player connects to the server, or when a session expires. Connected players : Armstrong, Keith Gray, Garvin Denisov, Timofey Hallqvist, Niklas Orlov, Sergei Ozen, Bahadir Ligon, Scott Kruse, Herbert Kireev, Sergey Endean, Andrew Soretti, Vincenzo Cirulis, Ilmars Zmolil, Karel Bleker, Frits Pelzer, Willi Faust, Dieter Aahlad, Yeturu Schangareev, Mirzian Moreira, Jose Roque, Pedro Boehme, Sebastian This game was played at FICGS : Last move : 0-1 2009 May 20 6:1:57 [Event "FICGS__CHESS__UNRATED_TOURNAMENT__000002"] [Site "FICGS"] [Date "2009.04.10"] [Round "1"] [White "Raman,Ranganathan"] [Black "Davis,Mark"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1683"] [BlackElo "1496"] 1.c3 d5 2.e3 e5 3.Qh5 Nc6 4.Bb5 Nf6 5.Qe2 Bd7 6.d4 e4 7.h3 Be7 8.Nd2 O-O 9.a3 Re8 10.b4 a6 11.Ba4 b5 12.Bc2 Bf5 13.g4 Bg6 14.Bb2 Bf8 15.Nb3 h6 16.f4 exf3 17.Nxf3 Bxc2 18.Nbd2 Ne4 19.Nxe4 Bxe4 20.Rf1 Bd6 21.Kd2 Qd7 22.Rf2 Ne7 23.Raf1 Bg3 24.Rg2 Bd6 25.R2g1 Ng6 26.Qf2 c6 27.h4 Qc7 28.h5 Ne7 29.Nh4 Rf8 30.Nf5 Nxf5 31.gxf5 Rae8 32.Rg4 Rd8 33.Rfg1 g5 34.Rh4 Kh7 35.Rh3 f6 36.Ke1 Rg8 37.Bc1 a5 38.Rg4 axb4 39.cxb4 Ra8 40.Qa2 Bxb4+ 41.Ke2 Bxa3 42.Bd2 Bc1 43.Qb3 Bxd2 44.Kxd2 Ra4 45.Rhg3 Rga8 46.Rg1 Qh2+ 47.Kc3 Ra3 48.Kb4 Rxb3+ 49.Kxb3 Qc2+ 50.Kb4 Qc4+ 0-1
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