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There are 0 results for Christophe in the games. There are 37 results for Christophe in the forum. Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-22 18:31:31) What future for correspondence chess ? You may have noticed this "grave" question on the home page... :) --------- Are draws and chess engines killing chess game, are the level and play simply standardized by Deep Fritz and Rybka... Is the extraordinary performance by Christophe Léotard at XIX th. ICCF correspondence chess world championship 'chancy', a statistical happening, or is there a place yet for human play in modern correspondence chess ? "I really believe that Go is destined to take the place of Chess as the leading intellectual game of the Occident, just as it has reigned supreme in the Orient for some four thousand years." (Edward Lasker, international chess master) "... {it is} something unearthly... if there are sentient beings on other planets, then they play go." (Emanuel Lasker, chess world champion) It had been said that Chess 960 would replace Chess too. I don't think so... Any predictions ? Thibault de Vassal (2007-02-10 15:58:56) King's indian Radjabov's good score in Corus 2007 tournament (Wijk aan Zee) gave a second youth to King's indian after Kasparov dropped it about ten years ago. Chessbase now sells a dvd by ex-FIDE world champion Kasimdhzanov. I still consider this opening as a good OTB weapon, but what do you think about it in modern correspondence chess, particularly after the nice victories by Christophe Léotard during last ICCF world championship. I think it could be interesting to discuss this opening, why not in Wikichess... What would you play after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 (9.Ne1 and 9.b4) ? http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=wikichess&article=4156 Marius Zubac (2007-02-18 04:24:39) Christophe Léotard's KID games I would be interested to see the games. I could not find them from the ICCF crosstable. maybe you can point me in the right direction. Thanks Christophe Czekaj (2007-04-11 13:20:54) Big chess I agree with Heinz Georg. First place = 7 points, second 6 for example, etc. We could take the ratio (total of points scored / number of tournament) to qualify 7 players for the championship (double round ?) Christophe Czekaj (2007-04-11 13:26:38) Free Lightning chess ? What about lightning chess for free ? Is it possible for two player to play for example 10 min or 15 min KO online. Is it possible to play a tournament like this ? The players will take dates to play their game for example. Christophe Czekaj (2007-05-07 13:25:39) science,art and bluff Ok for the artistic element but perhaps there is too much "science" in correspondence chess due to the use of computers. There is no much place left for "bluff" which belongs to the pleasure chess gives us Garvin Gray (2007-06-04 11:41:42) Wch 3 in rating order KAZ Balabaev, Farit 2580 FRA de Vassal, Thibault 2512 USA Ingersol, Harry 2502 NZL Noble, Mark 2497 DEU Schuster, Peter 2480 POL Ostrowski, Leszek 2458 ARG Brunsteins, Daniel 2452 CAN Zubac, Marius 2415 ROU Mathe, Iosif 2414 UKR Khokhlov, Igor 2370 MLT Sammut, Ronald 2362 ROU Helmer, Janos 2343 PRT Pires, Miguel 2270 LKA De Silva, Dinesh 2235 POL Sanner, Zdzislaw 2219 RUS Dyakov, Alexander 2217 DEU Schiller, Wilfried 2217 DEU Koslowski, Volker 2204 DZA Ould Ahmed, Samy 2195 FRA Appendino, Jérome 2192 GBR Taylor, William 2182 GRC Bleker, Frits 2171 DNK Jorgensen, Poulerik 2168 DEU Kesselheim, Peter 2149 CAN Repa, Jason 2144 PRT Louro, Eugénio 2123 USA Kotlyansky, Edward 2114 DEU Markus, Roland 2103 FRA Czekaj, Christophe 2098 AUT Dudulec, Konstantin 2084 CAN Plante, Marc-Eric 2079 LVA Borisovs, Leonids 2078 AUT Mueller, Robert 2069 DEU Unger, Peter 2065 AUT Riha, Josef 2019 POL Skwarczylo, Marek 2018 MUS Stephenson, Andrew 2000 CZE Stanislav, Musil 1990 SCG Vidanovic, Djordje 1966 USA Burden, Don 1959 DEU Haluschka, Rainer 1950 CAN Rotaru, Dan 1937 GBR Wyborn, Graham 1890 GBR Burrows, Nick 1884 POL Broniek, Mariusz Maciej 1879 BIH Dautovic, Dzenan 1875 AUS Gray, Garvin 1863 USA Minkin, Alexander 1850 GBR Josse, Mark 1806 ARM Khachaturov, Vadim 1803 USA Kotlyanskiy, Ilya 1800 DEU Krueger, Karsten 1800 PRT Vasquez, Fernando 1775 DZA Toutaoui, Khaled 1763 DEU Wosch, Arkadiusz 1746 TUR Yuvarlak, Ugur 1732 ROU Hrubaru, Mircea 1726 ARG Carrizo, José 1724 USA Phillip, Lennox 1700 ROU Kondort, Mihai 1700 ROU Ioan, Bucsa 1700 BRA Miranda, Marcus 1691 VEN Flores, Luis 1680 RUS Ruzin, Mikhail 1639 DEU Faust, Dieter 1627 MYS Behrmann, Klaus 1617 FRA Bellanger, Michel 1606 POL Bester, Kazimierz 1600 DEU Nent, Alexander 1593 PRT Oliveira, Carlos 1586 HUN Nagy, Attila 1549 ROU Ionescu, Catalin 1535 HUN Kis-Kos, Laszlo 1512 ITA Lupinacci, Nicola 1492 BEL De Groof, Pieter 1465 DEU Odendahl, Marcel 1462 USA Hendricks, Richard 1459 BRA Queiroz, Florencio 1444 CZE Pech, Jaroslav 1433 USA Goodwin, Adam 1415 HUN Csoma, Robert 1400 USA Gillz, Nicolas 1400 BGR Toktas, Ibrahim Ugras 1400 IND Veeraiah, Karuppaiah 1400 MEX Ortiz Durán, Esteban 1400 TUR Ilhan, Alper 1400 CHE Margot, Alain 1400 TUR Erdonho, Erdinç 1400 USA Lipsits, Sasha 1400 BRA B. Lima, Edmilson 1400 DEU von Buttlar, Paul 1386 HUN Fenyves, Adam 1330 BGR Stoianov, Stoian 1316 GRC Serd, Than 1300 TUR Ak, Murat 1300 GBR Willoughby, Peter 1294 ARG Orden, Jorge 1264 GBR Neil, Charlie 1212 NLD Oldenhof, Dwight 1203 USA Greer, Stephen 1200 BRA Barradas, Anderson 1194 IND Malvankar, Vikrant 1188 BEL Tuteleers, Bruno 1145 DEU Bothe, Matthias 1143 BGR Stoyanov, Zdravko 1136 Christophe Czekaj (2007-06-17 11:09:49) Ficgs team I'm in if I'm not too weak... Christophe Czekaj (2007-06-17 11:11:19) Let's crush the russians... ... please Bobby, help us ! ;-D Thibault de Vassal (2007-06-20 15:46:39) Players for FICGS team (by rating) Here is the complete list of players who registered for the FICGS vs IGAME.RU match. Unfortunately, a few players couldn't play :( .. I think our team is strong enough, as rating rules are quite hard at FICGS and some ratings are still provisional. I don't know how players will be distributed on "tables", if it's freestyle I think Wolfgang should play at table 1. I am also surprised to see players coming from IGAME.RU or russian forums who entered FICGS team !? .. Anyway, I'm sure there are no spies :) Thibault de Vassal (2512) Mark Noble (2496) Wolfgang Utesch (2466) Albert Popov (2463) Michael Aigner (2354) Janos Helmer (2343) Miguel Pires (2270) Leszek Tymcio (2270) Alexander Shalamanov (2252) Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2246) Silviu Nenciulescu (2194) William Taylor (2182) Poulerik Jorgensen (2168) Wayne Lowrance (2124) Edward Kotlyansky (2114) Christophe Czekaj (2098) Konstantin Dudulec (2084) Polina Romanova (2000) Dan Rotaru (1937) Nick Burrows (1884) Garvin Gray (1863) Vadim Khachaturov (1803) Janusz Kepinski (1599) Alexander Nent (1593) Graham Cridland (1406) Edmilson B. Lima (1400) Sasha Lipsits (1400) Ilmars Cirulis (1305 ~ >2100) Than Serd (1300) Charlie Neil (1212) Phil Cook (1132) Christophe Czekaj (2007-06-27 13:33:55) What a mess ! Hi everybody ! I'm totally agree with Charlie Neil ! What a mess for a friendly match ! I know "chess is life" but before it's a friendly game. So let's just play chess ! Thibault de Vassal (2007-06-27 21:18:36) FICGS vs. IGAME.RU, the games Hello to all. The friendly match between FICGS & IGAME.RU teams just started :) http://www.ficgs.com/tournament_FICGS__CHESS__FICGS_VS_IGAME_RU_MATCH.html I'd like to thank Sergey Pligin for organizing this match and all players who registered to play. I apologize to the players who couldn't play :/ .. 25 boards was not enough this time. To build FICGS team I selected players with the highest ratings but one cause his rating should be clearly >2000 already. Also IM Mark Noble plays at table 6 because his opponent is another FIDE IM. I wish good games to everyone, this is a great opportunity for us to meet russian chessfriends. Amici Sumus ! ... quote of the day : "Top boards make the show, last ones win matches." :-) Here are the complete teams : FICGS : 1. Thibault de Vassal # 1 2. Michael Aigner # 139 3. Peter Schuster SM # 323 4. Janos Helmer # 47 5. Miguel Pires # 83 6. Mark Noble IM # 1991 7. Leszek Tymcio # 2151 8. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff # 142 9. Silviu Nenciulescu # 1319 10. William Taylor # 1232 11. Poulerik Jorgensen # 940 12. Wayne Lowrance # 135 13. Edward Kotlyansky # 1140 14. Christophe Czekaj # 1193 15. Konstantin Dudulec # 1329 16. Robert Mueller # 1233 17. Josef Riha # 157 18. Dan Rotaru # 1394 19. Garvin Gray # 1363 20. Nick Burrows # 1643 21. Vadim Khachaturov # 1078 22. Daniel Khayman # 1032 23. Gaetano Laghetti # 138 24. Alexander Nent # 1411 25. Ilmars Cirulis # 533 IGAME.RU : 1. Sumets Andrey, Member # 2137, GM 2. Pljusnin Ivan, Member # 2147 3. Pligin Sergey, Member # 2189 4. Doinikov Owl, Member # 2191 5. Romitsin Nikolay Sergeevich, Member # 2159 6. Vovk Andrey, Member # 2144, IM 7. Yunusov Adkham, Member # 2124 8. Pavlikov Andrey Nikolayevich, Member # 2157 9. Leskiv Miroslav, Member # 2133 10. Domanov Dmitry, Member # 2130 11. Kragujevcanin Stole, Member # 2148 12. Silkin Aleksey, Member # 2198 13. Orlov Sergei, Member # 2207 14. Kim Vladimir, Member # 2139 15. Gerasimov Vladimir, Member # 2190 16. Larin Igor, Member # 2193 17. Zarullin Ivan, Member # 2203 18. Filimonov Evgeny, Member # 2176 19. Pezikov Evgeny, Member # 2174 20. Stork Denis, Member # 2180 21. Mancubov Boris, Member # 2156 22. Ilyuschenko Yury, Member # 2168 23. Prokopenko Alex, Member # 2182 24. Basiliev Iouri, Member # 2205 25. Shpakovsky Alexander, Member # 2185 Edit : There was a mistake while building the games, I had to make a replacement at board 23. Christophe Czekaj (2007-08-29 13:42:09) Correspondence Chess without computers ? Is there anyone interested about this topic ? Could we imagine a tournament in wich players agree to play without search engines ? For example, with a sort of gentlemen agreement to not use computer's help ? Thibault de Vassal (2007-08-29 14:15:49) Correspondence Chess without computers ? Hi Christophe ! I still don't believe anymore in this human-only correspondence chess, maybe that's why we play Big Chess ;) But we could create a new unrated category in Chess Special Tournaments : FICGS__CHESS__NO_ENGINES_TOURNAMENT__000001 I'm not sure... Anyone interested ? Christophe Czekaj (2007-08-29 18:23:05) So what ? Good idea ! Come on FICG'S guys ! Let's do it. Christophe Czekaj (2007-08-30 13:16:49) On which sites ? Hello Charlie. Do you have some examples of sites which invit people not to use computers ? How they propose that ? Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-01 12:43:09) Free of chess engine Thanks Thibault for reconducing me to this past forum. Very interesting. The part about "real" elo and correspondance elo is edifying. I know correspondence players could have a huge better elo than their real life one (if they have any) : more time to think, no stress, no pressure (or less) but I believe players who play without engines have a coorespondence rating approximately equal to their over the board one. Personnaly, I play coorespondence chess to try new opening, to train generally since I cannot play over the board so often since 2 years. I often play from the office, wtih sometimes a couple of minutes on a move, or sometimes I go home with the moves to think about my response in over the board conditions (30 minutes maximum on one move). My correspondence elo is around 2000 (with a good start with a peak to 2098, but declining since ;-D) and my over the board rating is now 1990 (with a peak to 2040 last year, and a rapid elo around 2100). So I sometimes feel a bit fed up with playing against chess engines, notably, but perhaps I'm wrong I have remarked that since I got an advantage, often opponents defend very very well, like computers in fact. Ok it's part of the game, and I know t could be a good training, fight hard to win a game, display a good technique, etc. but it could be disappointing to have the impression of play with a human opponent and have to finish with an another, i.e. the computer. Perhaps could we compare over the board elo, with correspondence elo to know if there is computer help or not ? Anyway, a special category of tournament will be great, and I'm eager to play with other ficgs "OTB-correspondence" players. Thibault de Vassal (2007-09-02 13:26:25) Ratings Christophe, do you use no chess engines here ? About ratings, probably most 2000+ correspondence chess players use chess engines whereas 1800- don't, so OTB players shouldn't play rated games with centaurs so often. Maybe new players should start with a 1800 rating (like ICCF) instead of 1600 so that most OTB players can't meet centaurs, what do you think ? "ICC at least claims to have software that detects cheating" : You mean 'obvious' cheating... :) Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-03 12:53:52) no chess engines Hello Thibault, I play here without chess engine. Anyway, recently I tried to play "hippopotamus defence", (with no good result yet, I have to admit) so a computer is no use, it doesn't understand anything, but perhaps it's hippopotamus which is wrong, not the computer ;-D. Anyway a difficult defence in correspondence play). I began on this site with 2000, and so my elo was too high to play against human only ? I don't see how it's possible a sofware detect computer use ? Ok we see strange, computer-like moves sometimes, but... Perhaps two players, at the beginning of the game can agree to not use computer. Again about chess engine, I use a computer to record the moves (chessbase),to gain time, and replay fast the moves to get to the actual position, but my chess engines (an old fritz (5) and chess tiger (14) all that on a old PC) would certainly suffer a lot use against more recent chess engines ;-D Like Philip, I like to play on ficgs and it would be nice to plmay against more human opponent. I play one tournament on itsyourturn since last year, and I saw a lot more human mistakes than on ficgs. So, how explain it, I sometimes feel more comfortable on itsyourturn, but still I do like the spirit of ficgs, match against RU, the tournaments, forum, nice people to meet on the board, and so on Philip Roe (2007-09-03 18:59:27) CC without engines Thibault, Christophe, All I did was to pass on that ICC CLAIMS to be able detect computer use. They dont say how they do it. Maybe they are just bluffing, or maybe they have an algorithm that kind of works and they dont want people to work around it by knowing how it works. The reason I dont use engines is because I want to take full credit for any wins I get. I can imagine using an engine and telling myself that I will just use it to prevent oversights. But I cant control what the engine will tell me. It might recommend a move that tells me that I am planning to attack the wrong target. If I then switch plans and win, what is left for me to feel proud of? But I can understand that others may feel differently, and there is much to be said for a site where everything is allowed because it gets around the issue of making a rule that is certainly very hard to enforce. But just because that rule does not exist on FICGS, it seems to me that if somebody on FICGS says that they are not using an engine, then you can probably believe them. The problem with other sites is that if a player with an umimpressive rating fires back a series of accurate moves very quickly in a difficult situation then you suspect that he is using an engine (although he promised not to) and there is not much you can do about it. If the same thing happens on FICGS you are pretty sure that he is using an engine, but you have already agreed that he can, so it doesnt irritate you. For that reason, I think that a computers-barred tournament might actually make sense on FICGS because those who want to use engines can legitimately do so. But for me, it would need to be chess that means something, with at least rating points at stake. Interestingly, Christophe and I are drawn in the same tournament, so we can declare at least that one game computer-free! Ulrich Imbeck (2007-09-04 13:00:50) czekaj christophe czekaj christophe, read this thread! Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-05 12:44:49) Engine use Hello Garvin, Sorry for the dense paragraphs of my previous posts. I'll try to make better! And please, do not feel uncomfortable to use computer on our games together. It's up to me to be extra careful ;-D I just thought it could be nice to have tournament totally computer free. Philip Roe (2007-09-05 23:13:44) CC without engines Well, you learn something new every day. About paragraphing anyway! Garvin, dont give it a second thought. Christophe and myself have both said that we accept your use of engines: we signed up for it. Jason, I'm sure I speak for Christophe in saying that neither of wants to change anything for you happy centaurs. All we said was that IF enough other people felt the same way, THEN maybe Thibault might add that feature to his excellent site. The parallel thread on tablebases is interesting. I find myself taking the opposite view. I dont see them as being very different from looking up KBNk in a textbook. They dont take fun out of the game because most of those rare positions are so impenetrable that they are not much fun anyway. So I am not very consistent in my views. Who was it said that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds? Thibault de Vassal (2007-09-06 23:53:39) France Good idea ! .. and much more difficult... Christophe Léotard won the previous ICCF world championship, but I must admit I have no idea who is France CC champion !? Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-07 12:44:20) To Jason Hello Jason ! It’s just a question to have the possibility to play correspondence chess (for fun, not neccesarily studying or analysis, just the pleasure of finding moves, ideas (you know, what Bronstein called imagination) not rating, not to be classified as expert, or I don’t know what…) with people without computer. If they lie and use computer ; OK, we can’t be sure, but I’m certain you could accept that some players can trust other players when they say they don’t use computers. For example, I trust Philip when he said this, it’s just a question of being a gentleman. If there are cheaters ok, so what… Rybka will win And I don’t undestand your topic about class of players : I hope I‘ve the right of posting some commentaries on this forum, despite the fact being largely behind you in term of rating… I think we can still play chess without computer, and with rating or not, it’s the same game for me. Philip and I just think it could be kind to play with other players with a kind of gentleman’s agreement. Sorry if it bother you Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-07 17:14:17) Thanks Thibault In the name of all the non centaurs (;-D) past, present and future, thanks a lot Thibault for all your work on this site ! Jason Repa (2007-09-08 08:27:57) To Christophe [moderator : partly deleted] You refuse to accept the reality of the modern corr chess experience and prefer to bicker instead of simply seeking OTB (or fast online) chess to get exclusively human vs human play. I've spelled out this theme repeatedly here. Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-14 12:34:10) You're right, Thibault Polemic is useless. Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-12 14:05:59) The liar cyborg [moderator : deleted, please see netiquette rules] Ilmars Cirulis (2007-09-12 14:11:13) Respect to Christophe Czekaj No matter - are He only human player or not. :) Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-13 13:00:14) Thanks [moderator : partly deleted] (...) I understand the useless of any polemic, but what about a "droit de réponse" ? Anyway, this topic is close for me. I've just made a proposition of tournament and find myself accused of immorality ! Thibault de Vassal (2007-09-13 13:44:25) Droit de réponse Christophe, as I said to you in private, it is only due to this rules change just before your post. It was too hard to make distinction of what is justified or not in some cases, so I was too much tolerant before. Now rules should avoid this. All responses to provocation will now be censured, a "droit de réponse" in this case is useless and pollutes the forum. Of course, you may ask for previous provocation & insults to be removed also. Of course you were not accused of immorality ! .. Rules must avoid such discussions, nothing more. Christophe Czekaj (2007-11-08 13:22:33) a Tarrasch quote It's not a quote of mine but I found it amusing so ... "The opponent is threatening... nothing. This is the most terrible threat, because it cannot be evaded" Christophe Czekaj (2008-01-25 13:04:00) In Fischer's honour Hello everybody ! What about a special Fischer tournament ? Or thematic tournaments, on line he used to play, for example : spanish exchange, or sozin against sicilian... And yes, thanks for your wonderful play, Bobby. Christophe Czekaj (2008-01-25 13:10:00) Chinese Chess Hello Thibault, Did you ever think about includind chinese chess on Ficgs ? Any volunteers ? And is it technically possible ? Thibault de Vassal (2008-01-25 16:29:52) Chinese Chess, Shogi ... Hi Christophe... Of course it has been discussed here already. Well, it is technically possible, but it is not technically possible before a few months :) The real question is : Do you want FICGS to be a multi-games site or mainly a chess place ? .. I've included Go (weiqi) because this game is really different and interesting, I'm not sure yet about the others and "A few is better than too many" IMO (what a quote) :) Christophe Czekaj (2008-01-30 13:34:08) Chinese Chess I played some games of chinese chess on itsyourturn, and it could be fun ! I was totally crushed bya asian players :-D But I found a player in Rotterdam who was on the same level (just beginners ;-D) and we had some interesting games. I think its a good idea to play chinese by correspondence because, to say the least, it's not easy to find players in "real life" ! There are 2 results for Christophe in wikichess. Christophe Sengez (1700) d4 d5 c4 Nc6 QGD Tchigorine ============ Contributors : Christophe Sengez Thibault de Vassal (2514) d4 Nf6 c4 g6 Nc3 Bg7 e4 d6 Nf3 O-O Be2 e5 O-O Nc6 d5 Ne7 Ne1 The variation Christophe Léotard used to become the ICCF correspondence chess world champion in 2007. ============ Contributors : Thibault de Vassal ... or search for Christophe in FICGS via Google
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