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| Connections | 730719 | | | | Members | 14799 | | Members (active) | 220 | | | | Forum posts | 14183 | | | | Problems | 109 | | Blogs | 181 | | | | Wikichess | 272901 | | | | Moves | 17661580
| | | | Games | 153898
| | Games finished | 152707
| | | | Go | 13714
| | Chess | 103844
| | Chess 960 | 2415
| | Big chess | 4439
| | Poker holdem | 17087
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Chess openings :
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| Scandinavian | 1558
| 1.e4 d5 | | Modern | 709
| 1.e4 g6 | | Pirc | 1179
| 1.e4 d6 | | Alekhine | 753
| 1.e4 Nf6 | | French | 3814
| 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 | | Caro-Kann | 2473
| 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 | | | | Grand prix attack | 547
| 1.e4 c5 2.f4 | | Morra gambit | 695
| 1.e4 c5 2.d4 | | Alapin | 1105
| 1.e4 c5 2.c3 | | Closed sicilian | 1450
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 | | Sicilian ...d6 | 8615
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 | | Sicilian ...e6 | 1222
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 | | Sicilian ...Nc6 | 3565
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 | | | | Petroff | 1928
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 | | Spanish | 7140
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 | | Italian | 2461
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 | | Ponziani | 160
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 | | Scotch | 1402
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 | | King's gambit | 1851
| 1.e4 e5 2.f4 | | Vienna game | 429
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 | | Other e4 ... | 7677
| 1.e4 ... | | | | Dutch | 981
| 1.d4 f5 | | Slav | 2735
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 | | Queen's gambit acc. | 989
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 | | Queen's gambit dec. | 2164
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 | | Albins counter gambit | 86
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 | | King's indian | 1186
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 | | Grunfeld | 803
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 | | Catalan | 566
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 | | Nimzo-indian | 1623
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 | | Benoni defense | 572
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 | | Budapest gambit | 131
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 | | King's knight opening | 2989
| 1.d4 Nf6 (... d5) 2.Nf3 | | Other d4 ... | 9192
| 1.d4 ... | | | | Reti opening | 5445
| 1.Nf3 | | Sleipner | 498
| 1.Nc3 | | English | 5712
| 1.c4 | | Bird | 1043
| 1.f4 | | King's indian attack | 394
| 1.g3 | | Orang Utan | 1224
| 1.b4 | | Grob's attack | 318
| 1.g4 | | French attack | 340
| 1.e3 | | Mieses opening | 105
| 1.d3 | | Anderssen | 187
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Longest games :
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| Go | 634 | Game 135399
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| | Poker Holdem | 3345 | Game 129013
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Players most active : General (moves played)
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2. Nelson Bernal Varela : 1016950
3. Stephane Legrand : 544396
4. Aleksey Payzansky : 494386
5. Herbert Kruse : 486810
6. Rolf Staggat : 392481
7. Anderson Barradas : 382295
8. Yeturu Aahlad : 357872
9. Lubos Fric : 346196
10. Scott Nichols : 293859
11. Vadim Khachaturov : 284416
12. Thibault de Vassal : 273545
13. Yulian Kehayov : 219556
14. Evgeny Yarkov : 215914
15. Paul Campanella : 188591
16. Cosimo Leonardo Meli : 188143
17. Jason Repa : 165064
18. Luis Flores : 156640
19. Stanislas Gounant : 146614
20. Silvio Martinez : 142363
21. Ilmars Cirulis : 125145
22. Laurine Segur : 122841
23. Sergey Uzdin : 117980
24. Xavier Pichelin : 115794
25. Pavel Hase : 113368
26. Arkadiusz Wosch : 111569
27. Alessandro Dotti Contra : 106836
28. Andrew Endean : 102615
29. Carmine Salvatore : 97421
30. Robert Csoma : 93395
31. Kavi Usan : 92890
32. Valery Nemchenko : 92443
33. Alexis Bromo : 91169
34. Janeen Walden : 89478
35. Miriam Jerez : 86050
36. Volker Koslowski : 84199
37. Dmitriy Panov : 83336
38. Jorma Hakkinen : 80964
39. Peter Krakovsky : 80720
40. Francisco Gramajo : 79444
41. Don Groves : 77258
42. Michael Sharland : 77240
43. Marc-Antoine Leurette : 62669
44. Sebastian Boehme : 61683
45. Claudio Giordanino : 60318
46. Garvin Gray : 57911
47. Fernando Vasquez : 57309
48. Yen-Wei Huang : 57253
49. Findlay Murray : 56758
50. Jordi Domingo : 54961
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Players most active : Go
1. Mickael Simon : 38425
2. Sylvain Praz : 36932
3. Alexis Bromo : 36844
4. Thibault de Vassal : 36366
5. Don Groves : 27971
6. Thibault Pillon : 25998
7. Karel Walzer : 25868
8. Peter Korossy : 24077
9. Daniel Xu : 23142
10. Andrew Endean : 22523
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Players most active : Chess
1. Ilmars Cirulis : 69018
2. Marc-Antoine Leurette : 61669
3. Herbert Kruse : 57631
4. Fernando Vasquez : 57201
5. Jordi Domingo : 54961
6. Josef Riha : 52449
7. Jaroslav Pech : 49876
8. Scott Nichols : 49017
9. Nelson Bernal Varela : 48610
10. Ryszard Sternik : 46857
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Players most active : Chess 960
1. Gregory Kohut : 4613
2. Yulian Kehayov : 3536
3. Paul Brand Lyard : 2980
4. Pavel Hase : 2979
5. Herbert Kruse : 2573
6. Jay Melquiades : 2426
7. Marcelo Salinas : 2213
8. Victor Hugo Martinez Camacho : 2110
9. Guido Tedoldi : 1898
10. Silvio Martinez : 1828
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Players most active : Big Chess
1. Thibault de Vassal : 19208
2. Herbert Kruse : 15943
3. Stephane Legrand : 15069
4. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff : 14853
5. Yeturu Aahlad : 14310
6. Luis Flores : 13396
7. Yulian Kehayov : 11586
8. Jose Maria Velasco : 8455
9. Marek Skwarczylo : 8321
10. Ilmars Cirulis : 7651
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Players most active : Poker Holdem
1. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff : 1200373
2. Nelson Bernal Varela : 968152
3. Stephane Legrand : 502623
4. Aleksey Payzansky : 485222
5. Herbert Kruse : 402689
6. Rolf Staggat : 378847
7. Anderson Barradas : 336910
8. Lubos Fric : 318578
9. Yeturu Aahlad : 315126
10. Vadim Khachaturov : 275201
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This chess game is played at FICGS :
Last move : f5 2026 September 28 17:52:41
White clock - 54 days 02:47:14 Black clock - 54 days 03:04:10
[Event "FICGS__CHESS__RAPID_GM__000022"] [Site "FICGS"] [Date "2026.09.04"] [Round "1"] [White "Kruse,Herbert"] [Black "Ludgate,Alan"] [Result "*"] [WhiteElo "2389"] [BlackElo "2385"]
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 c6 7.Qa4 Nfd7 8.cxd5 Nb6 9.Qd1 cxd5 10.Nc3 Nc6 11.h3 Bf5 12.Bf4 Be4 13.e3 h6 14.g4 g5 15.Bg3 Bh7 16.h4 e6 17.hxg5 hxg5 18.Rc1 Qe7 19.Re1 Bg6 20.Na4 Nxa4 21.Qxa4 a6 22.Rc3 Rad8 23.Qa3 Qxa3 24.Rxa3 Bf6 25.Rb3 Na5 26.Rb6 Rd7 27.Bf1 Rc8 28.Ne5 Bxe5 29.Bxe5 Be4 30.Kh2 Nc6 31.Bf6 Kh7 32.Bxg5 Rg8 33.f4 Kg6 34.Bh4 f5 35.*
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