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Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-18 23:26:06)
Live games

Hello to all.

I don't know (I hope) if the "live" concept is somewhat a reason for this, but I'm quite surprised to see already Alekhine defence played 6 times (and King's gambit the same). I wait for more accurate statistics, but no : everyone don't play Sicilian and that's great :) Spectacular & original games are welcome, I'm to install a "best game" poll script.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-20 23:18:32)
Vote for the best game

A funny feature has been implemented : You can vote for the best game played on FICGS. I hope it will reveal great games... :)

The votes have a lifetime.


Graham Cridland    (2006-04-21 16:50:29)
Game 156

Looks sort fo interesting but it's odd that it has best game votes - isn't it barely out of theory?


Trent Parker    (2006-05-06 17:15:28)
Best games

I personally think that only finished games should be considered for best games. Or a panel of high rated players should vote for best games. Also i think players should not be able to vote for their own games.


Per Lea    (2006-05-17 13:39:50)
Criteria for Best game

Can someone please tell me why 11 votes have been cast for game 156 as Best game? The way I see it, Black blunders on move 9 to lose the exchange, and finishes off with a howler on move 17. Or have I missed something here?


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-17 15:37:39)
Best game :-)

Maybe we should wonder why players didn't vote for other 'better' games !?

A good game doesn't necessarily need to be perfect, but obviously it has to be spectacular. It seems to be the criteria for players. Who said there was no beauty without errors...

However, I hope Wikichess and Comments feature will reveal good chess games in another way.


Trent Parker    (2006-05-19 08:04:48)
My Overall evaluation of this new site

I really like this site. I like the format of the tournaments, I like the fact that the number of games one can play are not limited.

I like the idea of the best game function, however i do not think it is properly utilised (I have aired my ideas on this elsewhere....)

I personally think the resign for checkmate rule is ok, although none of my games have gotten that far yet. After all a) this does not limit the amount of games that you can play on this site and b) your opponent will run out of time anyhow. So what is the difference? You are going to get the point anyhow.
I have the following criticisms:
I am on Dial up. This site is very slow to play on, very time consuming with the amount of games that i am up to. would it be possible to... I dunno... make it like a javascript or something, just to speed it up a bit. Or perhaps even make the submit button further up the page a bit? Often i have gone out of a game thinking that i have made the move when i have forgotten to click the submit button. (By the way this site would be excellent if i had broadband but i don't.)

I may have some more comments later on but at the moment i've said enough.

Thanks for this site Thibault!

Trent Parker


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-18 04:14:50)
New feature : Private notes

Hello to all.

Personal notes and public comments are now available for all of your games (at the bottom of the viewer page or move page step 1).

Public comments may be used to share analysis and feelings about the games... It will be displayed in viewer pages for everyone, as well as in 'Best game' page and homepage.

Please note that you have to submit separately these optional forms and your move.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-08-31 03:16:24)
New best game...

Finally, we have a new "best game", after about 2 months of clear domination by chess game 342...

Game 2198, from the scotch gambit chess thematic tournament, is a funny King's hunt :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 12:21:55)
Re: Best Game.........

Hey, everyone! I would like to see more people checking out the "best game" section & voting for his or her favourite game.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-07 12:28:40)
Re: Best Game.........

Game 342 is still preferred, but it has changed many times these last days.

Maybe I should also display several boards here...


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 13:12:14)
Re: Best game......

Thibault, I think that's a good idea! ( There are hundreds & hundreds of chess players at IECG, but only a handful seem to be voting! )


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-07 13:32:05)
IECG

A "tell-tale" lapsus ? :)

There will be an update for the 'Best game' in a few minutes...

(Dinesh, you told me you were playing a candidates final at IECG !? .. Will you play the final ? .. In good way ?)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-10 13:02:14)
Suggestion: A best game prize in future

I suggest there should be a BEST GAME PRIZE in the future (if Money Tournaments are a success in the future, which I'm sure it will be. That itself might generate some extra cash needed for this). A prize of.... say....US $ 100+ would be nice! Contenders for best game should be judged by a competent panel appointed by FICGS. Best Game could be selected once every month or once every two months. I think only one game should be submitted per each player, so that there's time enough for the panel to make a proper evaluation of the submitted games.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-10 14:13:09)
Re: Best game prize

Hi Dinesh !

Of course, there are many things like this to envisage.. ie. Wch prizes. It will all depend on money tournaments (working on) & eventual sponsors.

However, I'm not so favourable to such suggestive results... We'll see. If the idea is plebiscited in the future, I just say why not...


Wayne Lowrance    (2006-10-14 18:37:24)
Best game

While kicking around the site I got the message advising my posting of a game of mine in "Best game" I don"t know how that happened, but it rembarrases me. I would not have made the post voluntarily (2168). Remove it for consideration please.....Wayne


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-14 18:53:21)
Re: Best game

Ok, the vote has been removed...

I just saw game 2222 was the best game now.. Please vote game 342 ! :)


Wolfgang Utesch    (2006-10-21 12:09:00)
Best game

The "Best Game" should be a figurehead of the FICS-Site - but is it? I don't think so. That so an exotic opening experiment (particularly with black) will run in a real loosing position, is not very suprising. And also the praised last move is found by several engines in a very short time! What we (this site) need is a very high classed game with surprising twists - which engines never can find. And it must be with very good comments on most moves. Looking for this - that is the real challenge for all of us! Wolfgang


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-21 12:19:48)
Game 2222

Really ?? .. Maybe my engines are outdated :) .. What engine prefer the last move ?

About the best game, I fully agree..... But I doubt a majority of players will choose the best game with the same criteria :/

By the way : FICGS with 'G', FICS is another one :)


Wayne Lowrance    (2006-10-22 05:13:08)
Best Game

Without revealing my engine it find Qf8+ in 5 seconds, so your statement needs correcting. The game is "probobly lost accoring to my engine. Excuse my bluntness. But what a stupid opening for black. Thats where all the trouble began. I would not try and defend the black position here....My two cents worth Thibault de Vassal


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-22 14:00:32)
Re: Best Game

That's right Wayne, but anyway I would have played it even with one Nf6-Ng8 more... I like these mad challenges :)


Kieran Child    (2007-01-09 16:09:09)
Votes for best game

Is there any way to withdraw a vote? I accidentally voted for one of my games (6131) thinking that I was going to be taken to the best games list.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-01-09 18:58:00)
Votes for best game

Hello Kieran.

Just wait, maybe this game will disappear from the list after the next 50 votes :)


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-01-31 18:21:40)
1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nf3

This is the line for the next chess thematic tournament :

http://www.ficgs.com/tournament_FICGS__CHESS__THEMATIC_TOURNAMENT__000023.html

A line played several times here already by SM Wladyslav Krol, and a really interesting opening that produced the current 'best game' :

http://www.ficgs.com/game_864.html


Does anyone know a name for this opening, or may I call it "Krol attack" :)

Anyway, it should be a spectacular tournament !


Graham Woodcock    (2007-03-29 17:03:09)
game 6909 query

Regarding game 6909 (on Best Games), can someone explain the thinking behind 10.exf5 when white could have moved 10.gxf6 instead? Also, why did black then choose 10. ... d5, which allowed 11.gxf6 when the f6 knight could have been moved to safety on black’s 10th move? I’m sure there must be some good reasoning for those moves, but I can’t see it. Cheers.


Philip Roe    (2007-08-21 00:19:50)
Best game voting

It is a nice new feature to be able to see all the board positions in a tournament. This inspired me to look through the "20 best games". On average a mediocre bunch! Perhaps the problem is the link "vote for best game" You look at this and wonder "What happens if I click on this?" and then discover that you have voted for the game you happened to be examining. I suggest a less ambiguous wording "Endorse this game as a best game candidate"


Thomas Tamayo    (2007-09-11 17:09:58)
My wish

Separate "Best game" sections for Chess & Go. Give 5 votes for each category... There are typically zero Go games up on "Best game" at any time.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-11 17:18:40)
Best game

There could be also one for Big Chess :/ .. That's a problem, indeed. Also it would be great to find a way to "promote" really good games... I added a message "Don't forget to vote for the best game !" in the new message box already. Any idea ?


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-11-14 02:35:38)
Best Go games played at FICGS

As there's no best game section for Go (Weiqi, Baduk.. as you like) only yet, it could be interesting to share & gather the most interesting games played at FICGS in this thread.

Feel free to post a link to your favourite game and a comment about what makes the game interesting.

In example :

http://www.ficgs.com/game_9314.html

In this one won by Claude Brisson, several ko & superko rule made the position really hard to understand...


Andrew Stephenson    (2008-02-10 14:55:28)
opening novelties

Thibault there is a section for best games which receives votes. I was wondering whether it would be possible to do the same thing for opening novelties?


Mark Hailes    (2008-03-20 17:56:40)
Voting for best game

Woops screwed up again. I inadvertantly pressed "vote for best game" on a game in my tournament and immediately got a confirmation of the vote. Sadly i don't think it was one of my own games :-) and in any case the tourney has only just started! I think it might be an idea to have a confirmation dialog with the game information that you are voting for, to make it harder for dense people to screw up. BTW is this option for voting for best game in a tournament or some other criteria?


Thibault de Vassal    (2008-03-20 18:27:02)
Voting for best game

A confirmation dialog is a good idea... but voting will be just more "difficult", so I'm not sure. Any opinion ?

There's no criteria... 'best' game, according to each player :)


Mark Hailes    (2008-03-20 23:23:16)
Voting For Best Game

Hi thibault------ I’m a bit envious of those carriage returns you manage to get in your posts... >>>> Voting will be more difficult <<<< I do tend towards laziness in my daily life (I can’t imagine life without a dish washer for instance). But even so the fractional mouse movement & additional click would not I think cause me such effort as to eschew voting, but it might make it more likely that I’d vote for what I consider to be the best game rather than a random one :-). So that’s one vote for the confirmation! >>>> There's no criteria... 'best' game, according to each player :) <<<< I assume then (from this somewhat enigmatic comment!?) that voting is for the best game in the tournament. Perhaps it might make sense not to allow voting on a game until it is finished? It may be that after playing well in the early part of the game, the player/s collapse later and mess it up. BTW. If I vote again for another game, is my vote removed from the first game I voted for? or not counted? Or can I in fact claim that multiple games are the best game in the tournament? What happens if I vote for the same game more than once?


Wolfgang Utesch    (2008-05-02 17:13:22)
Game #17834 or #17836 for best game!

This would be a much better choice than that one at the moment (#15864). I would like to vote for it, but I can't.


Thibault de Vassal    (2008-05-03 00:24:22)
Best game

Hi Wolfgang, thanks for pointing out these nice games :)


Scott Nichols    (2010-09-22 23:00:20)
Best Games

I wonder if we could raise the limit of votes we get for best games. I think that would enhance the best game dept. At present the top game has 3 votes. I like to look at the games of opponents, not even counting my games, and give credit where due. I saw some comments on game #44774, I looked at it and tried to vote best game and it said I can't vote anymore. Thib, can you think about this?


Thibault de Vassal    (2010-09-23 12:34:49)
Best Games

Not so easy to find the right balance for this, depends on the number of votes per month, the number of voting players and so on... Now the total number of votes taken in account is 50, with 5 per player, the oldest votes are deleted when there are new ones.

What numbers do you suggest?


Don Groves    (2010-09-24 00:15:19)
Best Games

A player should be able to vote for as many games as s/he wishes but only once per game.


Scott Nichols    (2010-09-24 15:51:16)
Best Games

Thib, I've tried to think about this. First, I believe we should have all the votes we need to use. Second, I don't think poker games need to be voted on for best game. If we could get this more popular we could add some interesting ideas.

I would like to see a "Featured Game", both in Go and Chess to come out every 2 months with the rating cycle. This would be the game voted on the most by players. Ideally, it could be annotated by the victor.

The games here are of the highest quality. Even GM's could benefit from some of the novelties that have come up here. It would also give people incentive to be honored with being the feature game.


Jimmy Huggins    (2011-03-05 06:14:08)
Poll for best game of round 1

If you have been following some of the games I would like for you to cast a vote for the best game of Round 1. Look here for the poll and read the directions because I was unable to put up all the games for vote.

http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=21096


Jimmy Huggins    (2011-04-29 11:23:50)
WBCCC-New stuff and Round 2 Update

Hello everyone! Its been a while since the last time I have updated. I would like to talk about recent happening. Then I will give an update on the games for this round.

I have had some talks with a few players. And I would like to announce that starting next year there will be more prizes. Besides the money prize next year. I haven't decide yet how many of these I will have yet. And its possible there could be more ideas to come by. Please also know that there will be money prizes still this is just something on also to add to the interests.

1.Subscriptions to annotated games. For example Chess Today, Chessvibes, chesspublishing.com and Opening Master. There can be others, these are just examples. If you have other good ideas here please post. Most likely this will be a combined prize here.

2.Rental time on the new Rybka Cluster- Not sure how exactly this one would work. It could be a lot different in a years time for the Rybka Cluster. But I think this would have some interests.

3.Hardware- Again not sure how I would do this. But I would probably have it as a middle to high end setup for a prize. Hardware is always a every changing process its hard to know what is good at that time.

Any other suggests are welcome. Probably the best realistic prize is the first one. If I have multiple prizes like this. The way it would probably play out is like a lottery system. Start with the winner and work your way down. On what they want and go 2nd, 3rd etc...

The last prize to talk about.(And maybe the best) I have had talks with the people of chesspublishing.com and next year. Whatever game is voted for "best game of the round". Will have there game analyzed, by one of the titled players on that site and have the game published. I will try and have it open to everyone that follows the games for the WBCCC.

The next thing of interest for next year. Is that we will have a conditional move system in place. It was thought in a blitz setting to be a great asset to have. For example if your opponent is in a different time zone than you and the next move to you would be a force move. It would be nice to have this option to make the forced play. Without having to say up late at night to make this obvious move. This is all the new stuff. Round 2 Update to come.


Jimmy Huggins    (2011-11-28 10:38:22)
WBCCC 2 sign up and WBCCC 1 review

After an exciting WBCCC 1, Own Champion ppipper (José Sanz) wins with a finally score of 7.5 out 10. FICGS top players were in a tied for 2nd with Timothy Cookson, Sebastian Boehme, and Ruben Comes. Credit also has to go to David Evans who had ppipper as White in the last game. And went all out to beat him. In the end Jose pulled out the win with black. For those interested I highly recommend you read this article. About the champion talked about his tournament games.

http://www.chesscafe.com/chessok/chessok.htm

Now I wanted to go a head and open up the sign up for the 2nd edition of WBCCC and tell everyone about the improvements and add ons.

The first major improvement on WBCCC is that it will have a simple to use conditional move system. With our easy downloadable client we use. There is also going to be a 2nd tournament for those who prefer a little more time than own standard tournament of 30days per side. In the 2nd tournament that is going to be called Rybka Forum Grand Prix. Is going to be 30day for the first 40 moves and 30 days Sudden Death after that. So basically you get 30 more days for 40 moves on your clock. Now here is a few more things to know about the tournament. After each move, if you request it. You can have your move noticed to you by email. This is good for the busy person who doesn't check the game forums all the time. The other thing added to the tournament is that there will be a file on hand for everyone to check to see what sites everyone plays on it a head of time. This is good for guys who like to prepare for there opponent. As for other fun things offered. I finalize with chesspublishing.com that they will help for own best game per round and the winners will get there games analyzed by the top players there and will publish them on the forum. Which I can expand to here and the other forums I promote at. For some were scared of the time control, but in truth we only had 2 games time out, but this was because they left there games. Which was a disappointment, but 2 games over a whole tournament was very good! If you maybe interested, but are unsure about the time. I recommend talking to me and when can have a test game to see if you can handle it. Most know with in a week or 2 if they can do it or not. Thanks for the support of Thib and everyone that played this year and anyone that will try this next year!

Jimmy


Alvin Alcala    (2013-05-15 18:23:15)
Eros Riccio on his win in 8th chess WCH

Whats your best games so far? against of course top opposition.


Jan Ohlin    (2016-09-08 20:16:14)
Player of the Year

Anyhow, it could be a good idea to have a topic in the forum where it is allowed to brag about one's own excellence. Maybe also a way to make the "best game" more worth reading, it´s so very boring now.


Thibault de Vassal    (2018-01-09 00:10:13)
FICGS Android APP beta version

The apps are now a bit different from each other:

- The Go app allows to easily replay the best games played at FICGS when there's no game to play (or when logged as guest)

- The other apps allow to play against a chess program (not too bad) when there's no game to play (or when logged as guest)

Hope it brings some more fun... To be continued.








 		 
 
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