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| Connections | 730530 | | | | Members | 14747 | | Members (active) | 200 | | | | Forum posts | 13989 | | | | Problems | 109 | | Blogs | 169 | | | | Wikichess | 268309 | | | | Moves | 17516315
| | | | Games | 152537
| | Games finished | 151499
| | | | Go | 13635
| | Chess | 102938
| | Chess 960 | 2373
| | Big chess | 4414
| | Poker holdem | 16925
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Chess openings :
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| Scandinavian | 1556
| 1.e4 d5 | | Modern | 706
| 1.e4 g6 | | Pirc | 1172
| 1.e4 d6 | | Alekhine | 752
| 1.e4 Nf6 | | French | 3788
| 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 | | Caro-Kann | 2448
| 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 | | | | Grand prix attack | 541
| 1.e4 c5 2.f4 | | Morra gambit | 694
| 1.e4 c5 2.d4 | | Alapin | 1085
| 1.e4 c5 2.c3 | | Closed sicilian | 1437
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 | | Sicilian ...d6 | 8565
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 | | Sicilian ...e6 | 1209
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 | | Sicilian ...Nc6 | 3537
| 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 | | | | Petroff | 1923
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 | | Spanish | 7068
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 | | Italian | 2444
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 | | Ponziani | 160
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 | | Scotch | 1384
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 | | King's gambit | 1834
| 1.e4 e5 2.f4 | | Vienna game | 419
| 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 | | Other e4 ... | 7613
| 1.e4 ... | | | | Dutch | 965
| 1.d4 f5 | | Slav | 2716
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 | | Queen's gambit acc. | 985
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 | | Queen's gambit dec. | 2147
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 | | Albins counter gambit | 85
| 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 | | King's indian | 1184
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 | | Grunfeld | 802
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 | | Catalan | 561
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 | | Nimzo-indian | 1609
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 | | Benoni defense | 564
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 | | Budapest gambit | 131
| 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 | | King's knight opening | 2956
| 1.d4 Nf6 (... d5) 2.Nf3 | | Other d4 ... | 9117
| 1.d4 ... | | | | Reti opening | 5369
| 1.Nf3 | | Sleipner | 475
| 1.Nc3 | | English | 5629
| 1.c4 | | Bird | 1040
| 1.f4 | | King's indian attack | 390
| 1.g3 | | Orang Utan | 1213
| 1.b4 | | Grob's attack | 318
| 1.g4 | | French attack | 328
| 1.e3 | | Mieses opening | 100
| 1.d3 | | Anderssen | 174
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Longest games :
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| Go | 634 | Game 135399
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| | Poker Holdem | 3328 | Game 50709
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Players most active : General (moves played)
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2. Nelson Bernal Varela : 1005272
3. Stephane Legrand : 539562
4. Aleksey Payzansky : 494386
5. Herbert Kruse : 476239
6. Rolf Staggat : 392443
7. Anderson Barradas : 382281
8. Yeturu Aahlad : 350147
9. Lubos Fric : 346196
10. Scott Nichols : 293859
11. Vadim Khachaturov : 284051
12. Thibault de Vassal : 270960
13. Yulian Kehayov : 218199
14. Evgeny Yarkov : 213559
15. Cosimo Leonardo Meli : 188143
16. Paul Campanella : 182380
17. Jason Repa : 165064
18. Luis Flores : 156634
19. Stanislas Gounant : 144631
20. Silvio Martinez : 142234
21. Laurine Segur : 122841
22. Ilmars Cirulis : 120388
23. Sergey Uzdin : 117980
24. Arkadiusz Wosch : 111303
25. Pavel Hase : 111047
26. Alessandro Dotti Contra : 106836
27. Xavier Pichelin : 106724
28. Andrew Endean : 101901
29. Kavi Usan : 92890
30. Robert Csoma : 92766
31. Carmine Salvatore : 92328
32. Valery Nemchenko : 91407
33. Alexis Bromo : 91169
34. Janeen Walden : 89478
35. Miriam Jerez : 85937
36. Volker Koslowski : 84199
37. Dmitriy Panov : 83336
38. Jorma Hakkinen : 80964
39. Peter Krakovsky : 79512
40. Francisco Gramajo : 79444
41. Don Groves : 77258
42. Michael Sharland : 77240
43. Sebastian Boehme : 61683
44. Marc-Antoine Leurette : 61383
45. Claudio Giordanino : 60318
46. Garvin Gray : 57596
47. Yen-Wei Huang : 57253
48. Findlay Murray : 56758
49. Fernando Vasquez : 56504
50. Jordi Domingo : 54409
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Players most active : Go
1. Mickael Simon : 38425
2. Alexis Bromo : 36844
3. Sylvain Praz : 36576
4. Thibault de Vassal : 36128
5. Don Groves : 27971
6. Thibault Pillon : 25998
7. Karel Walzer : 25868
8. Peter Korossy : 23981
9. Daniel Xu : 23142
10. Andrew Endean : 22420
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Players most active : Chess
1. Ilmars Cirulis : 66764
2. Marc-Antoine Leurette : 60679
3. Herbert Kruse : 57152
4. Fernando Vasquez : 56396
5. Jordi Domingo : 54409
6. Josef Riha : 52449
7. Scott Nichols : 49017
8. Nelson Bernal Varela : 48283
9. Jaroslav Pech : 48233
10. Ryszard Sternik : 46857
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Players most active : Chess 960
1. Gregory Kohut : 4528
2. Yulian Kehayov : 3448
3. Pavel Hase : 2979
4. Paul Brand Lyard : 2603
5. Jay Melquiades : 2426
6. Herbert Kruse : 2263
7. Marcelo Salinas : 2213
8. Victor Hugo Martinez Camacho : 2110
9. Silvio Martinez : 1808
10. Ryszard Sternik : 1778
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Players most active : Big Chess
1. Thibault de Vassal : 19208
2. Herbert Kruse : 15653
3. Stephane Legrand : 14895
4. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff : 14853
5. Yeturu Aahlad : 14239
6. Luis Flores : 13396
7. Yulian Kehayov : 11519
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 : 1186670
2. Nelson Bernal Varela : 956801
3. Stephane Legrand : 498055
4. Aleksey Payzansky : 485222
5. Herbert Kruse : 393560
6. Rolf Staggat : 378809
7. Anderson Barradas : 336910
8. Lubos Fric : 318578
9. Yeturu Aahlad : 308045
10. Vadim Khachaturov : 274836
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This chess game is played at FICGS :
Last move : Rd7 2026 June 1 0:13:46
White clock - 42 days 19:37:38 Black clock - 6 days 19:29:54
[Event "FICGS__CHESS__WCH_CANDIDATES_FINAL__000028"] [Site "FICGS"] [Date "2026.03.05"] [Round "5"] [White "Ludgate,Alan"] [Black "Armstrong,Keith"] [Result "*"] [WhiteElo "2447"] [BlackElo "2295"]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.dxc5 e6 4.e4 Bxc5 5.exd5 exd5 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Qe2+ Be6 8.Be3 Bxe3 9.Qxe3 Nc6 10.Nd4 O-O 11.O-O-O Re8 12.Qf4 Rc8 13.Bb5 a6 14.Ba4 b5 15.Bb3 Qb6 16.Rhe1 h6 17.Nxc6 Qxc6 18.Rd4 Qc5 19.Qd2 Red8 20.f3 a5 21.a4 bxa4 22.Nxa4 Qc7 23.g4 Rb8 24.Kb1 Rb4 25.Rxb4 axb4 26.Qxb4 Qxh2 27.Nc5 Qf2 28.Nxe6 fxe6 29.Rxe6 Qxf3 30.Qa5 Rd7 31.*
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