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Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-28 02:31:50)
Blogs !

Everyday a new feature, I keep in the rhythm ;)

You may have noticed this link ('see the players blog') at the top of the forum page. A new interface that simply looks like the forum, but built like a blogs website.

You may want to relate your Chess life or Go philosophy, your games or whatever.. you can do it there.

Like in the forum, links are automatically parsed. The html < br > tag to begin a new line. Comments by everyone are also available.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-14 18:33:37)
Chess and Go diagrams / Forum update

A major update for FICGS forums (& blogs) !

Now you can insert Chess & Go diagrams in messages...
(useful to submit chess problems, analysis and so on...)

See the FAQ in help section - http://www.ficgs.com/help.html - for details, in example here is the position of the last game in the FIDE world chess championship between Veselin Topalov & Vladimir Kramnik, just before Topalov blunder 44. ...Rxc5 ??

ChessPosition (see diagram)

Diagrams format is quite simple (see Help), please note only one diagram / position will be displayed per message.

Also minor bugs (links, search functions) corrected...


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-27 19:37:08)
Chess quizz :-)

A chess quizz ? ... Feel free to post any funny question about chess.. :)

1/ Who said that : "At night Kramnik is in my dreams. I dream that he has accepted my offer for a return match in Sofia. Or that I make a long stroll with him in Moscow, after which we visit an expensive nightclub. The strange thing is that the two of us are the only visitors there."


Ok, quite easy... The pressure should have been really high... :/

Solution - http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com


Another one... May be interesting :)

2/ Who lost........ ? (question unfinished, just say your first thought :))


Marc Lacrosse    (2006-11-24 09:27:56)
completely unfair and thus impredictible

The fact that the match conditions have been arranged on such unfair rules has two immediate consequences :
- we already know for sure that Kramnik himself is sure that he could not succeed on a more fair ground
- final result is unpredictible and probably already arranged beforehand

Marc

By the way the rules are really incredible.
Just an example : not only does Kramnik have the final opening book of Fritz at home for preparation, but moreover he will have the right to see Fritz's opening book _during_ the games with the various moves that could be played by the engne according to the player's intended move, together with the associated statistics. so in the unfortunate case where Kramnik could not remember is home killer preparation he will have the various choices presented to his eyes during play. Pretty incredible !
and there are quite a dozen rules like that ... (including the right for Kramnik only to call for an adjournement with subsequent overnight computer- or fellow-GM-assisted analysis ...)
For those who would like to have a look the complete rules are on Susan Polger's blog : http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com/



Marc Lacrosse    (2007-01-19 17:19:28)
Other forums that I visit daily

A few other computer-chess-related ones :

Winboard forum :
http://wbforum.vpittlik.org/

WBEC Ridderkerk forum (associated with one of the most reknowned engines evaluation site):
http://f27.parsimony.net/forum67828/index.htm

CSS-forum (german):
http://www.computerschach.de/forum/

Le Fou numérique (french):
http://f50.parsimony.net/forum200321/

And a very nice yahoo group devoted to unorthodox openings :

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/UnorthodoxChessOpenings


In another category I like the two following blogs where there are very lively daily discussions on every chess-related news :

Susan Polgar's one :
http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com/

Mig Greengard' daily dirt :
http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/

Marc


Catalin Ionescu    (2007-04-23 17:00:07)
web link

you're also on Susan Polgar's blog: http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/04/anand-scored-17-wins-1-loss-and-1-draw.html


Amir Bagheri    (2007-06-30 14:02:02)
Newsletter and Blog Recruitment

I am trying to set up a Newsletter. This would be an excellent way to spread news amongst ourselves. This newsletter targets primarily The Chess corner Members however I would like to create a column dedicated to the FICGS Members a bit like a gossip page or anything that you would like to share. This Newsletter will be distributed to all my members and to FICGS Member that wishes to receive it To do so I require help from you all we are actively looking for 1) writters 2) editors 3) researchers 4) Designers To express your interest, please go to www.chesscorner.com and fill up the application form. For those of you wiling to help us please bare in mind that I will create a forum where you could share ideas and opinion it is therefore essential that you register on The Chess Corner. All authors will be acknowleged and credit will be given. If you want to help but reckon that a Newsletter maybe a bit out of your league, we are looking for some enthusiasts to look after the Blog. The Blog Regards Amir Bagheri (GM) PS I welcome all comments http://www.thechesscorner.com http://thechesscorner.blogspot.com/


Jason Repa    (2007-07-16 05:19:18)
Sandipan destroys Tiviakov

http://chessmusings.blogspot.com/2007/07/excellent-attacking-game-by-chanda.html


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-08-31 09:40:32)
Neuroanatomy of a chess player

http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com/chess

http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com/files/maverickphilosopher-IMG_0256.JPG


Quite funny, and interesting blog :)


Don Burden    (2007-10-06 14:10:24)
Some favorites

John Kricfalusi's blog (the creator of Ren and Stimpy). Learn to draw cartoons!

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/


Engrish:

http://www.engrish.com/
http://www.engrish.com/recent.php


The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Read what was going on in London almost 350 years ago.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/


Jason Repa    (2008-05-02 22:36:29)
Lasker Variation of the From's Gambit

My game against Marc-Eric Plante is finally over after more than a year. I've been dabbling with the idea that this line of the From's gambit may be losing by force. If someone can find an improvement for Black with some supporting analysis, I'd love to see it. http://chessmusings.blogspot.com/2008/05/from-night.html


Jason Repa    (2008-05-07 13:43:09)
Lasker Variation of the From's Gambit



[moderated : rule 11.1 Netiquette]

My correspondence chess game with Marc-Eric Plante finally wrapped up after over a year. It was an interesting game, IMO, and I thought that Marc had made some improvements over what had been played before by Black, such as 10...Qe7!? (instead of the usual 10...Bf5). However, it's been my thought that the Lasker Variation of the From's gambit might, at the end of the day, be lost for Black with perfect play. I'm not sure of Black could have done anything different in this game. http://chessmusings.blogspot.com/2008/05/from-night.html


Ilmars Cirulis    (2009-01-19 19:28:30)
Some scientific quote

In last days I started to like them. I'm sorry. :D

"The field is so littered with the stinking carcasses of unreplicated candidate gene associations that it's a reasonable default to simply assume that any small, unreplicated study is false." (Genetic Future from ScienceBlogs.com)


Thibault de Vassal    (2009-02-17 17:31:24)
Coupon Go, computers & future...

Two articles reported by the AGA (American Go Association) on Monte Carlo simulation, Coupon Go, Computer Go in general :

"Based on predictable advances in computing power, he rockons that a program will beat the best professional Go players on even footing within 28 years."

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/computers-get-go.html

"(...) To get around this obstacle, Berlekamp created a version of Go called Coupon Go, in which players have the option of either putting a stone on the board or taking a coupon. The coupons, which have different point values, showed Berlekamp what the most valuable moves were."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40910/title/Coupons_help_evaluate_game_of_Go


Frightening, what do you think ? :)


Thibault de Vassal    (2009-07-04 00:39:06)
Chessbazaar

More, more :)

By the way it could be interesting to gather every chess blogs maintained by correspondence chess players...


Daniel Parmet    (2009-07-08 05:02:57)
mine!

My blog: http://chaoschess.blogspot.com/

I actually run a blog where i've plugged ficgs several times:) However, I doubt the material is going to be of much interest to corr players but check it out anyways!


Philip Roe    (2009-11-06 03:54:51)
Luck is the residue of design

Nick, I did not know that one. It is quite splendid and I thank you for it.

But it may not be Milton. I tried to look it up and quotation sites attribute it to a poem of his called "At a Vacation Exercise in the College" However, it does not occur there, and the Yale book of quotation credits someone called Branch Rickey in Sporting News, Feb 21 1946. A rather different source.

See http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/quotes-uncovered-who-worried-about-events/


Thibault de Vassal    (2009-11-17 20:59:43)
Anand vs. Lacrosse

Yes, the event was related on many well known websites :

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/04/anand-scored-17-wins-1-loss-and-1-draw.html

http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2007/04/anand-simul-and-interview.htm

http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/2007/April/Anandwins17gamesincharitysimul.asp


Thibault de Vassal    (2009-12-07 21:44:24)
Chessbazaar.blogspot

Looks like there are several Chessbazaars on the internet :) .. I just re-discovered this one thanks to a referral:

http://chessbazaar.blogspot.com


Thibault de Vassal    (2009-12-29 19:50:45)
RobboLito vs. Rybka 3

What are RobboLito, Ippolit and Igorrit ? It looks like these names are invading computer chess forums... As you may have read in the discussion mentioned below, the Rybka 3's source code may have been compromised and these engines "may" be clones of Rybka 3 (everyone does not agree on this). Good or really bad news, anyway this open source chess engine may have many consequences on the computer chess world, and correspondence chess as well...

http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=forum_read&id=8031


From the wikispace mentioned below :

IPPOLIT : Intellectual Persons Promotion Of Leninist International Tradesunions (!??)

Q. What is RobboLito?
A. RobboLito is the version of IPPOLIT that now contains endgame tablebases, the RobboBases.

A few links on RobboLito 0.085f1a, Ippolit & Igorrit (says it all IMO) :

http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/
http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/RobboLito
http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/Igorrit
http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/FAQ

see also : ippolit.wikispaces.com/Clone+(Question)

http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/News
-> IPPOLIT banned from chessprogramming wiki!
PlayChess banned IPPOLIT from use online also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r_V_QkmHjo
http://www.chesslogik.com/robbolito.htm
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/free-chessengine-robbolito-is-1-at-swisstest-rybka-2?lc=1
http://www.cyclonechess.com/rybka3.htm

"RobboLito is an open-source UCI chess engine by: Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, Igor Igorovich Igoronov, and Roberto Pescatore."

RobboLito does not yet support: multiPV, own book, egbbs, tablebases, multiple CPUs/cores, chess variants

Estimated rating: ~ 3300 ELO

Available versions:

RobboLito 0.085g3 w32 (optimized windows 32-bit executable and source code)
RobboLito_0.085g3_w32_no_SSE2 (optimized windows 32-bit executable - for older CPUs that don't support Intel SSE2 instruction set)
RobboLito 0.085g3_x64 (fast windows 64-bit PGO executable compiled by peterpan)
RobboLito 0.085g3l_x86 (optimized linux 64-bit executable and source code ported to linux by unisky)

http://www.cyclonechess.com/robbolito.htm
http://www.cyclonechess.com/rybka3.htm

http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1261597025/4
http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1258991841
http://queenchess.blogspot.com/2009/11/fritz-12-vs-robbolito-e2-latest-version.html
http://lefounumerique.xooit.com/next?t=663 (french)


Ruben Comes    (2010-07-30 18:40:57)
Invitation visit my Blog

Hi all!

In it blog we have links for download games, tutorials, articles and more.

http://www.computerschess.blogspot.com/


Thibault de Vassal    (2010-09-23 11:03:26)
Road to Grandmaster

Very good idea! The site is nice and I'm surprised not being able to find a few other blogs like this one... and it will motivate you even more to reach the 2500 mark for sure! Please keep us aware :)


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-01-04 08:00:30)
New site on Chess Thinking Systems

Hi Chess Friends,

Now you can visit my new chess site
http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/

and suggest me some improvements.


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-01-13 07:16:17)
New site on Chess Thinking Systems

A new site on chess Training also

http://chesstrainingsystem.blogspot.com/


Thibault de Vassal    (2011-01-18 15:24:39)
Houdini 1.5 leads TCEC comp. chess tourn

Advanced chess "centaur" players should be interested by the following:

A "super" tournament for computers, named TCEC, just started. Premier Division finals started with the participation of the world's top engines.

Tournament format: double round robin

The participants:

1 Houdini 1.5
2 Rybka 4.0
3 Shredder 12.0
4 Stockfish 2.0.1
5 Naum 4.2
6 Ivanhoe B47cB
7 Hiarcs 13.2
8 Critter 0.9

I don't know much on this tournament, actually it may be a CCRL/SSDF system-like but as a tournament (and without rating list?), anyway thus it was able to reach the chess news in Chessdom & Susan Polgar blogspot.

The point is that the supposed "possible" Rybka-clones Ivanhoe & Houdini (both based on Ippolit, just like Firebird) entered the race... and Houdini is leading already, ahead of Rybka.

It is announced that Rybka 4 is playing, does anyone know who's behind this version of Rybka and what is the hardware? Does Vasik Rajlich know about that?

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2011/01/houdini-15-leads-tcec-computer-super.html

http://www.chessdom.com/news-2011/computer-chess-live-2011

http://www.tcec-chess.org/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-02-05 17:23:36)
New site on Chess Thinking Systems

Hi friends,

Now watch Chess Video "How to break 3000 rating in blitz chess" packed with valuable advices by GM Igor free at

http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-02-21 07:26:38)
Tal System of accurate attack

Now, go through "Tal system of accurate attack" at

http://chessthinkingsystems2.blogspot.com/p/tal-system.html

and offer your comments here.


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-02-28 02:24:35)
The most common mistake in chess

Now watch this useful chess video by GM Igor Smirnov for free at

http://chessthinkingsystems2.blogspot.com/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-03-23 03:50:19)
New site on Chess Thinking Systems

Petrosian System link is now active at

http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/

or directly

http://chessthinkingsystems2.blogspot.com/p/petrosian-system.html

Please read and comment.


Thibault de Vassal    (2011-04-30 01:28:03)
Amateur player beats Rybka 4 !?

What do you think??

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2011/04/amateur-player-defeats-rybka-in-match.html

Last but not least: "He knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi number."

April 28, is this april fool joke in another country?


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-05-02 01:32:46)
Breaking Stereotypes

Hi Chess Friends,

Now watch GM Igor Smirnov's latest excellent chess video lesson "Breaking Stereotypes" [about exploiting White's Bg5 or Bb5 or Black's Bg4 or Bb4 moves] free (no registration required) only at

http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-05-04 13:33:38)
Breaking Stereotypes

Well friends. Both the free video lessons "Breaking Stereotypes I & II" are really good. Please watch them at http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/ and do comment here.


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-05-26 21:28:42)
Winning Blitz chess

Hi friends,

GM Igor Smirnov, present ICC Blitz Rating 3091 (best 3212) with ID Charodej shares his blitz chess secrets in video lesson "How to break 3000 blitz rating" free at

http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-05-31 20:44:13)
New site on Chess Thinking Systems

Read a review and get Maximum discount on GM Igor Smirnov Courses at

http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-06-03 05:04:07)
New site on Chess Thinking Systems

Now watch six chess videos "How to Plan and Execute in Chess", "Breaking Stereotypes series 1,2 & 3", "How to prevent Blunders" and "How to break 3000 rating in blitz chess" all by GM Igor Smirnov free at

http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/


Jai Prakash Singh    (2011-08-02 05:12:20)
A strong Opening Surprise

hi friends,
now watch an original new video analysis by GM Igor Smirnov
A Strong Opening Surprise by White 1.b3 (Part 2-All Black replies except e5)
at http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspot.com/


Peter W. Anderson    (2013-12-26 15:47:53)
FICGS World Chess Championship results

Thanks. I put the wrong link in.

This should work OK

http://chessengines2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ficgs-correspondence-chess.html


Vadrya Pokshtya    (2022-02-17 08:52:23)
Grand Dice Chess

Hello,
I am the author and inventor of chess variants. My chess variants are published on chessvariants.com and some of them can be played on Game Courier.
I would like to present to you a variant of chess with dice that I invented relatively recently and which can already be played on two sites on the Internet.

Grand Dice Chess
The Rules

The game uses a 12x12 board.

Each player has:

4 Kings
24 Pawns
8 Knights
8 Bishops
8 Rooks
4 Queens

White and black occupy the 1st-6th and 7th-12th ranks, respectively, as shown in the diagram.
Unfortunately I can't post an image here, but you can always find it here:

https://granddicechess.blogspot.com/2022/01/grand-dice-chess.html
https://www.chess.com/blog/Pokshtya/grand-dice-chess-battle
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-variants/grand-dice-chess

White starts the game first.
The game uses four dice.
Opponents make moves alternately, throwing 4 dice. The piece to move is determined by a die:
1 = pawn, 2 = knight, 3 = bishop, 4 = rook, 5 = queen and 6 = king.

The player makes four moves at the same time based on the indications of the dice and has the right to refuse (pass) any move that does not suit him, unless it is a pawn move. Unlike in regular dice chess it's allowable to pass moves. And this rule was already applied about a thousand years ago in old variant of Shatranj (Shatranj al-Mustatîla or Oblong Chess), the Arabic pre-decessor of modern chess. However it's not allowed to pass on pawn-moves, except when they are blocked.

Chess pieces move across the board as they do in ordinary chess - according to the standard rules of move and capture.
The only minor exception is for a pawn that is not allowed to move forward two squares from its starting position.
Upon reaching the last rank, the pawn can be promoted to any piece except the king and itself.
There is no castling, check and checkmate in the game.
The goal of the game is to capture four enemy kings.

The first test tournament was held on the site http://abstractgames.ru/index.php
The tournament is attended by 10 people and I received the most positive feedback from them.
The game has proven itself so well that regular tournaments have already been launched.
Yesterday the game was added to Dagaz server https://games.dtco.ru/map
And it's a great place to test the game in person, as registering on the site is very easy and doesn't require any personal information.

The game turned out to be extremely interesting and exciting, replete with puzzling combinations. Surprisingly, with this size of the board and the number of pieces, the average game lasts no more than 30 turns.








 		 
 
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