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Karlheinz Weber (2006-04-11 06:12:34)
Download of games
Is it possible to load down my own games, and if yes, how does it work?
Thibault de Vassal (2006-04-11 13:28:13)
Download
Hello Karlheinz & Hannes.
I'll arrange that. But indeed that's the way I developed the "Search games" page. Copy/Paste PGN games should work. (but it may become too big later to display all games in one page)
Karlheinz Weber (2006-04-15 14:07:03)
Coordinates
Coordinates would be fine! K.Weber
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-04-15 16:46:29)
Vacation
I agree with Hannes. And I would like to take a leave in one or another but not necessarily in all of my tournaments.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-04-16 15:54:24)
No need to receive his own moves?
Dear Thibault, sorry but I would like to receive my move as mail, especially if I add a message to my move. And in the case of a server-crash it could be helpful to have the total protocol of my games on my computer. Don't you think so?
Karlheinz Weber (2006-04-23 11:13:11)
Download of games
I still think the possibility to download my own tournament, or at least my own games in pgn files would be very, very helpfull. For example many chessplayers handle their games with ChessBase. Ciao! Karlheinz
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-13 17:58:51)
Swiss
Hello Thibault, Chessfriend.com has started the Championship as a 3 rounds Swiss tournament. Why don't we try this form under the name FICGS-CUP? I have liked the mode. Heinz-Georg
Thibault de Vassal (2006-05-13 20:27:05)
Swiss : 3 rounds ?
Hello Heinz-Georg.
Interesting, but how exactly did it work ? Only 3 rounds, but how many games per round and against who (I didn't know that swiss system allowed to play several games per round...) ? Thanks in advance for enlightening me.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-14 00:47:20)
Swiss
Hello Thibault these are the "rules" (see at http://www.chessfriend.com/ and then Tournaments-CFC World-Championship-CFC Championship 2003)
Modus: 3 rounds Swiss ā 10 games each. ... Every player is allowed to participate in all 3 rounds. Pairings of the 1st round are based on rating. We will build equal groups where possible. In the second round we will do the pairings so that be build at first 3 groups depending on score and rating. Among this three groups we will build new tournaments which should be of about equal rating.. Third round will be paired in the same way with the exception that the first group will be the strongest (score and rating). Normally two players should play during a championship cycle only one game. If it will be necessary in a following round that two players play a second game, this game should be played with revised colours.
I will send you more information.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-05-14 16:07:16)
"Blitz" cup...
Thank you Heinz Georg, for the files you sent to me.
Now I understand better the work and ideas of Reimund Lutzenberger in Chessfriend.com, a great experimentation field for sure...
I first concluded some things not to do in FICGS WCH. In example, a player rated 2500 (even provisional rating from fide) shouldn't have to play in the first stage against a low-rated player in a world championship [but that could be possible in a cup tournament cycle]. So I'll add special rules for high rated players (who are not qualified for the WCH knockout tournament) to begin directly in a 2nd stage tournament...
I agree with Dinesh, the aim is not to use the same formulas, even good ones. Anyway I think we can find new interesting (better :)) ones. But as the WCH is already a rapid tournament cycle, the CUP could be an unrated "blitz" (30 days per game with no increment, or even 10 days + 1 hour / move) knockout (2 games / match + playoffs) !! Something quite "brutal" and unfair between correspondence chess & classical rythms. What do you think ?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-14 17:29:59)
Swiss and Blitz Cup
Hello Thibault
Swiss tournament was only a suggestion. I don't like knockout tournaments - too many rounds (7 if 128 players want to play), great problems, if not the right number of players is available or players withdraw. If you have only 30 days for the whole game, it is much better to live on the "right" continent relative to your opponent.
Karlheinz Weber (2006-05-21 08:27:52)
tables
Please change tournament-tables, so we can see, who finished against whom! Ciao! Karlheinz
Thibault de Vassal (2006-05-21 12:51:03)
Crosstables
Hello Karlheinz.
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=forum_read&id=158
Just click on the magnifying glass near the name of the tournament to see the crosstable.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-29 13:14:29)
Remaining time on page "My Games"
Dear Thibault
the same problem - another suggestion. My preferred page is "My games". Is it possible to add the remaining time of both players (or at least of the player to move)?
Heinz-Georg
Thibault de Vassal (2006-05-29 13:32:45)
Remaining time
Hello Heinz-Georg !
'My games' is only a short overview of all your running games (as Per suggested), useful when you have a lot of games. Adding clocks would be too much space consuming.
My preferred page is definitely 'My messages'... Using both should be efficient enough.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-29 13:51:27)
Remaining time
Hello Thibault!
What a pity! Everything I would like is a short overview of my running games - with the remaining time(s). I don't need the start date of the tournament at this page. You can delete it to get more space. My messages doesn't contain further information which I need.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-29 16:40:45)
Remaining time : added !
Now it's great. Thanks for the fast change!
Thibault de Vassal (2006-05-29 18:50:09)
Actually...
... this game is frightening :) (wasn't classical chess enough ?)
Games 'should be' (??) more strategic and most of chess theory should apply, but I already fear the middlegame.. and more the endgame !
Hey Heinz-Georg, what do you think ? ;)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-29 20:47:01)
Big chess
The middlegame could be a challenge, particularly if you have no board to test the consequences of your move. And what do you think about an endgame with 12 pawns and 3 rook or 5 knights on each side? What are the values of the pieces? There is much to investigate there. Perhaps I should write a computer program ... (just a joke)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-05-29 23:44:30)
Value of the pieces...
A bishop against two pawns - never if it is not mate. You have two open lines and I lack an important piece.
Karlheinz Weber (2006-06-02 22:41:15)
copy games to ChessBase
For me itīs still a very big problem that itīs impossible to copy a game to ChessBase. As far as I can see this is the only server without this possibility. K.Weber
Thibault de Vassal (2006-06-03 07:03:45)
Download chess games
Hello Karlheinz.
Ok, I'll make something today to download directly all finished chess games in PGN format ! Sorry, not much time before and I had to think about it a little, so that it uses as less resources as possible.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-06-03 19:22:18)
Download games + RSS feed
Hello Karlheinz.
It's now possible to "directly" download games in PGN format. Please try the 'download' link on the viewer page for any game, or try ie. this one - http://www.ficgs.com/game_136.pgn
I've also added links to RSS feeds for games in the viewer page, and for the forum.
Karlheinz Weber (2006-06-04 10:42:17)
K.Weber
It works! Great! Many thanks! Karlheinz Weber
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-14 12:08:12)
FICGS 1st chess world championship
Hello Thibault
I don't like your rules. I think it would have been better if all players start in the 1st wch (this time and in future cycles). It would be more attractive for the most players. What do you think is the rating average of the 1st stage groups?
I cannot remember that the 2300-restriction was in the rules when I have registered ...
Thibault de Vassal (2006-06-14 13:15:33)
FICGS 1st chess world championship
Hello Heinz-Georg !
It's only a logical extension to the rule that divide the championship in a round-robin and a knockout (for the 8 best rated players) tournament. Of course, there's no rule that fit to everyone, only choices... I hope to make the most balanced ones for the whole site.
By this rule, high rated players have a stage less to play (that they would probably win) and it limits the rating gaps (otherwise it would be more like a cup). In most wch competitions, winners and high rated players/teams are qualified for an advanced stage in the tournament.. A quite common and logical system, used everywhere from football world cup [winner qualified for quarter final] to Roland-Garros [qualifications stage], FIDE world championship etc... 2300 rule is a statistical choice, used in IECG too with more parameters. (nevertheless at IECG high rated players can choose to play the first stage too, but IMO it's quite complicate)
I hope to make it as simple and attractive as possible, believe me ;) Of course (and it is mentioned in the rules- preliminaries) rules could still evolve if improvements are decided by the [future] council.
The only negative point is, indeed, only 2300+ players can play the 1st wch, that is in a way not a "complete" championship. But compared to all other positive points (first, everyone can play now), and as 2nd wch starts at the same time, I think this choice is best.
What I think to do is to send all tournament tables to players who registered on 2006 june 16. If finally there are players who don't want to play it, they'll just have to tell me within days, responding by email. It should avoid any forfeit.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-14 14:40:34)
FICGS 1st chess world championship
Hello Thibault!
Thank you for your answer.
Two points:
It isn't sure at all that a player with a rating > 2400 will win his group if he had to play a 1st stage group. The CFC-Ch 2003 has shown, that less than 50 percent of the best rating players (even players with rating > 2600) have won their qualification groups.
In the moment we have about 100 players with a rating < 2300 who have registered themselves for the wch. Their rating avarage is about 1720 (!). Is that right? This means (if I understand your rules) the wch groups of the 1st stage will have this rating (+ or - some points). In these groups for a 2200 player it is nearly impossible (even as winner of a group) to get a tournament performance > 2050 (I suspect that this is the reason that players with rating > 2300 not have to play this stage). After the first stage the distance to 2300 will be greater than before.
I have registered myself and I will play. But I'm not really satisfied with that situation.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-14 15:20:18)
Rating formula
(repetition)
Daniel De Noose (2006-06-15 15:17:03)
Not very satisfy too...
Like Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff, when I registered the tournament it was announced as 1st championship and open to everyone. I don't like when rules change after the registration. Secundo, if you only reserve this 1st tournament to players with rating over 2300, you can change my rating : on the "correspondence" chess site chess-mail I'm over 2370. But as I said to you when I began here I want to improve my real rating beginning like an unrated. But if now the rating is so important to play the 1st championship, I prefer to be correctly rated. Hoping you'll change all this and play really the 1st championship with everybody.
My actual rating in "correspondence chess" :
- chess-mail : kasapov (2370)
- echecsemail : danideno (2280)
- echecsnet : danideno (2271; but it is the highest rating of this site)
Daniel
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-14 15:32:51)
Rating formula
Hello Thibault!
Where can I found the exact rating rules of FICGS? I have found only these lines in the Memberships - Terms and Conditions:
"11. 7. Rating rules
The FICGS rating scheme is a numerical scheme, in which percentage results can be exchanged into rating differences, and rating differences into percentage performance probabilities. It is mainly based on the principles of rating calculations of prof. Arpad Elo.
The rating formula : New Elo = ((16 x Elo) + (Games x Perf)) / (16 + Games) ..."
What means "mainly based"?
You write in another topic
"1. The rating system do not take account of wins when the ELO difference is superior to 350 points "
Is this valid only for wins or for all games with a rating difference of more than 350 points?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-16 11:35:05)
Elo rating calculation
Hello Thibault!
How are provisional ratings are treated?
Two notes to the rules:
1. You write: "Bonus is given by the Percentage (100 * Points / Games) obtained" and "If the percentage is negative, ..." Percentage cannot be negative. I think you mean: If percentage < 50
2. You write "Please note that Bonus is limited to 470 points". Why do you write other values for 96-99 % in the Bonus-Table?
Thibault de Vassal (2006-06-16 13:46:10)
Right...
Hello Heinz-Georg.
Thanks for help :) Indeed, I've forgotten the parameter for provisional ratings (that evolve quicker than established ratings)... I'll change these points within hours. (right, 95 to 99 values in the bonus table are useless, but it is informative about the formula)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-16 13:55:54)
Statistics, ELO and performances
Hello Thibault!
"About performance, that's not quite true a 2200 player couldn't perform more than 2050 in stage"
Maybe you are right, if most of the players have an established rating. But you can see at the rating list that more than 50 percent of our ratings are provisional - most of them with 1700. The question is how many of these players are good or very good (like Daniel)?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-18 14:10:23)
FICGS 1st wch (my last try)
Hello to all,
I think it would be better to start our 1st wch with the regular rules (knock-out and round robin)? Players with rating > 2300 who are not starting in the knock-out can start in the 1st stage of the round robin if they want. If they do not win their group they can neverthless start in the second stage (if their rating is > 2300) of the 1st wch. World champion is the winner of a 24 game knock-out between the winner of the 3rd stage round robin and the 3rd stage knock-out.
What do you think about this?
Thibault de Vassal (2006-06-18 23:07:45)
FICGS 1st wch
Hello Heinz-Georg.
I can't see any reason why these players would enter 1st stage if there's no real motivation... Most won't play, for sure.. Logical consequence is they won't play before months... That's a pity in my opinion.
I really think we found a good compromise with Daniel, that can satisfy everyone. Thus 1st wch is a complete cycle, that will designate the 1st FICGS champion. Is there really something more to hope ?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-19 15:45:34)
FICGS 1st wch
Hello Thibault!
It seems that I haven't really understood what will happen on July 1st. You write "Thus 1st wch is a complete cycle". Does this mean, that the knock-out tournaments of the 8 players with the highest established rating also will start (stage 1)? If not it is not a complete cycle according to FICGS (your) rules - in my opinion.
What happens if a player has a rating > 2300 at the beginning of stage 1 and a rating < 2300 at the beginning of stage 2? May he play stage 2?
What happens if a player has a rating < 2300 at the beginning of stage 1 and a rating > 2300 at the beginning of stage 2? May he play stage 2 even if he hasn't won his round robin group? The rating at which time is essential?
Thibault de Vassal (2006-06-19 18:42:16)
FICGS 1st world championship
Hello Heinz-Georg.
While watching the wch waiting list, I realized that there could be an improvement more about this "extra-group". So here is the 1st wch scheme (and next ones, without the special group in the first stage), according to the rules.
Stage 1 :
-- Knockout tournament --
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_QUARTER_FINAL_1__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_QUARTER_FINAL_2__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_QUARTER_FINAL_3__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_QUARTER_FINAL_4__000001
with John Anderson, Petr Makovsky, Daniel Cinca and 5 other players...
-- Round-robin tournaments --
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_1__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_2__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_3__000001
(...)
And at last, a special and one-time group :
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_M__000001
This will be a high rated group, with GM Nigel Davies, GM Amir Bagheri and the ~10 players 2300+ who won't play the knockout tournament according to the rules. The winner of this group will directly qualify for stage 3 round-robin final tournament (a one-time rule). The others can play stage 2 as specified in the rules.
Thus, only the 1st wch will start on july 1st. I think it's fair enough and finally everyone can play...
Stage 2 :
-- Knockout tournament --
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_SEMI_FINAL_1__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_SEMI_FINAL_2__000001
-- Round-robin tournaments --
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_2_GROUP_1__000001
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_2_GROUP_2__000001
(...)
Stage 3 :
-- Knockout tournament --
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_KNOCKOUT_FINAL__000001
-- Round-robin tournament --
FICGS__CHESS__WCH_ROUND_ROBIN_FINAL__000001
Stage 4 :
-- Candidates match --
FICGS__CHESS__CANDIDATES_FINAL__000001
Stage 5 :
-- Title match --
FICGS__CHESS__WORLD_CHAMPIONSHIP__000001
... if there's a world champion and if he defends his title. Consequently we won't have a stage 5 this time, but as it could happen again in the future...
That's all folks !
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-06-19 20:29:55)
FICGS 1st world championship
Hello Thibault,
thank you for your answer. Even I have understood this now. I have always missed the knock-out tournaments in the postings. It wasn't clear to me (and I was probably the only one ...) whether these tournaments take place also.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-07-09 00:46:13)
Leave/Reflection Time
Dear chessfriends!
In my dreams a perfect server has the following time rules.
Normal tournaments:
- 30 days with an increment of 30 days/ 10 moves
- 100 days maximum accumulated time
- 30 days maximum limit for one move
- 4 weeks leave per tournament (!) for every year since the start of the tournament
- no time lost or added during leaves
- a move in a tournament during a leave stops the leave in all games of this tournament
- all time calculated by a running clock in hours and minutes
Rapid tournaments
- 30 days start +1 day added per move
- 45 days maximum accumulated time
- 30 days maximum limit for one move
- no leave
- all time calculated by a running clock in hours and minutes
By the way, the world championship should not be a rapid tournament.
But how I said these are my dreams ...
Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-10 02:04:36)
Vacation and reflection time
Hi John, Glen & Heinz-Georg. Thanks for all suggestions... ;)
Some responses, particularly about vacation (towards a compromise ?) :
* 30 days + 2 days/move : Not "beautiful" (not a joke, it is design matter)
* 30 days max for one move : Not convinced it can really bring something... if a player want to last a CC game, I think no reasonable rule (without human factor) can prevent him to do so.
* 14 days + 1 day/move (rapid) : As players don't know exactly when tournaments will start, I think 30 days at start (ie. compared : email tournaments often start before the real date) is a good choice to avoid accidental forfeits during holidays !
* 2 weeks annual leave : Even for different time controls, I'm not favourable to make too many different rules.. 30 days (for all games per year) is a balanced choice IMO.
* Vacation : Ok, I make note of this. I was not favourable to any leave system, cause it's obviously a way to have days more in time trouble, even if time is frozen ! .. That's why I made it "hard" to use.. If players can stop their leave when they want, just by playing a move, it becomes easier to manage time trouble situations. The 60 days rule for 1 move was a solution avoiding vacation IMO but we discussed it already... Now I'm to decide to change the vacation rule, as John (& you) urged me. I thought it was a good thing not to prevent players to make moves during the leave... Maybe most think different, ok... However I have a problem yet with vacation as it's really a way to get more reflection time... Here is what I suggest, simply a harder rule : Players who take days leave CAN'T play during their vacation and CAN'T take days back (stopping their leave by playing a move) ! Then 2 options, players must wait their vacation end date to play again, or they can play, but provoking the cancellation of their leave (loosing the days leave taken and not used yet).. Maybe it won't be appreciated in some particular cases if players have to modify their plans, but the aim is clearly to reduce the vacation effect on the game... What do you think ?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-07-10 20:06:15)
Vacation and reflection time
Hi Thibault
Vacation seems to be a great problem on all chess servers. The way you manage it is very special. I don't think, that your way is "hard to use". Of course you can always abuse vacation to have more time in time trouble. But your way is very easy. Take 10 days of vacation and play on. And at the end of a year add the not consumed vacation to the reflection time of all of your games.
Now you suggest that a player can not play during his vacation. That is ok. But if the player starts playing during his vacation "loosing the days leave taken and not used yet" is not ok. "Maybe it won't be appreciated in some particular cases". Too much and unnecessary administration. Let the server work.
You don't want to give up your concept (adding vacation time to the reflection time), am I right? You already have announced the corrections on "My messages". If you must change your concept, you would have to rewrite parts of the software.
Nevertheless I would like to say how I imagine the vacation rules on my "perfect server".
I can make the following things with my 4 weeks of holiday:
- If I'm on holiday far away from home or don't like to play chess for a while, I can take a leave in all tournaments.
- If I have much work (sorry - I had to earn money and my employer doesn't take it into consideration, that I would like to play more chess) and can't take care of all tournaments for a while, I take a leave in single tournaments. If the overload is past, I play on without losing the vacation which I perhaps haven't taken.
- I cannot take a leave in a rapid tournament. That is ok - rapid means rapid. There shouldn't be any way to get more time for reflection in this kind of tournament.
It's a pity that no more players express their opinion on this topic in this forum.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-11 02:18:11)
Vacation and reflection time
Hello Heinz-Georg.
Of course I'll change the software, that's not a problem. What is important is to find the best solution to this issue... Time will be frozen during vacation.
There are several other ways to make it harder to use. Maybe it could be interesting to have no choice (or less) on the numbers of days you can take - ie. only 10 days by 10 days.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-07-12 20:12:40)
Tournament entry rating
Hello Thibault!
Am I right that my TER (tournament entry rating) is not essential for the calculation of my new FIGCS - ELO - rating. If I'm not right, in which variable can I find it? I thought the difference of my opponents and my own rating at the beginning of the tournament would be of importance.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-12 22:54:50)
Tournament entry rating
Hello Heinz-Georg.
Your TER is not taken in account when a rating calculation occurs (your opponent's one is, of course).
But your previous ELO has a weight in the formula...
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-07-15 17:40:05)
Big chess
Hi Thibault!
No time to continue the game?
Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-15 17:51:39)
Big chess
Hello Heinz-Georg.
I'll play my next moves soon... That's right, no time enough and many chess & Go games to play. But I keep a look at my clock ;)
Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-21 12:26:07)
Big chess strategy
This game is pure madness.
Much more tactical than I thought... ('cause of Heinz-Georg strategy so far, obviously)
Anyway, I would be curious to see computers playing. (I just played my move... a surprising one undoubtly ;))
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-08-14 16:46:36)
Activities on the FICGS server
Hello Thibault,
nice statistics! Can you tell us how many of the FICGS members have started to play at least one game of chess, one game of go, and how many haven't started to play any game at all?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-08-15 17:32:04)
Statistics
Some suggestions:
- all winners of a tournament (including the number of won tournaments)
- the player which plays or has ended most games
- the player which has obtained most points
Karlheinz Weber (2006-09-05 16:53:17)
Translation
What means "Ihr Konkurrent bot Ihnen einen abgehobenen Betrag an". This is German and I am German but it makes no sense for me. Ciao Karlheinz
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-05 17:03:50)
Time to display all informations
35 seconds - but the page is great
Thibault de Vassal (2006-09-05 17:04:09)
Translation : Draw proposal
Hello Karlheinz !
Humm... Babelfish just told me it could (very) approximatively mean : "Your opponent offered a draw".
I still do not speak a single word in German... :/
Thanks for your help.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-09-05 17:11:28)
Another try...
Heinz-Georg, could you try another time to load the same page and tell me if it is faster or not ?!
It could work faster the next times...
Thanks :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-05 17:35:32)
Another try...
~ 30 seconds. Browser IE 6, Speed 3 Mbit/s
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-05 17:52:21)
Time to display all informations
Pentium 4, 3 GHz
I have closed all "working" applications (Word, Excel), but the time is the same.
How much time takes your browser?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-05 18:26:38)
Time to display all informations
No reason to laugh. Excuse my question! I hope you don't have to develop these wonderful programs at this computer ... Or with what have you earned this punishment?
Karlheinz Weber (2006-09-05 20:09:23)
Translation
I could read this quite some times and I never realized that this means "draw offered"! And continued the game without saying a word....!!! (Please dear opponents, excuse me!) Please write: "Ich biete Remis"!
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-05 23:13:06)
Time to display all informations
... watching videos, hunting for divX and mp3? What's that all? No time! I had to find the next move in the game no 1
Thibault de Vassal (2006-09-06 03:41:02)
Time to display all informations
It seems complications did not begin yet... :)
Heinz-Georg, could you try a last time to load the tournament (with boards) page ? It should run 'a bit' faster now... Thanks !
Karlheinz Weber (2006-09-06 06:17:11)
Translation
Hello Thibault! It is so funny, because your babelfish-translation was something like "I offer you some money" and I always thought: "why does he offer me some money? Does he want me to resign? I think this game is draw"! Great!
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-06 09:04:10)
Time to display all informations
~ 15 seconds now.
I suspect the program uses most of the time to collect the information from the database tables. If I save the page it needs less than 400 kilobytes.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-06 14:16:25)
Time to display all informations
yes, it is much faster than the first version.
Two remarks:
- The reflection time also is shown if the game is already ended - and the time goes on.
- What does it mean if a text stands above the diagram? Example: in the game 1626 (FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_12__000001) I can read "ok".
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-10 14:41:52)
Money torunaments
Hi Dinesh !
I doubt that more money tournaments as free tournaments will take place. And in the moment the waiting lists aren't filling very fast. The period of the first registration up to the start of a tournament gets only even longer by the additional money tournaments.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-30 13:47:43)
No change
Hello Thibault.
I agree with Peter: no change of the timekeeping, please.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-12-04 21:39:34)
Too late
Hello Thibault!
now I have seen that you have restricted the number of participants of this great tournament to 5 - and I'm too late.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-12-04 22:05:27)
One player more ?
Hello Heinz-Georg !
I was waiting for you :)
Ok, it was firstly a 7-players tournament, so let's try to find a seventh player. Come in, this is a mad experience. Trust me :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-12-04 23:24:35)
I'm in
Ok, just for fun ...
Volker Koslowski (2006-12-06 16:48:02)
I will do it
Hi Thibault!
Count me in as replacement, and I hope the experience will be as mad as you said ;)
@Heinz-Geeorg: Surprise, surprise ;)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-12-06 17:36:19)
Welcome
Hi Volker,
what a surprise! So you don't have enough games yet ...
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-01-21 15:16:26)
Chess ratings
I have formatted my message (and partly corrected) to be able to read the text better.
Rating system:
Look at this situation: Current rating ot the player: 2200,
10 games, all players with TER 2200, result 9=, 1+
Case 1: Finished games:
01.01-28.02: 9= New rating 01.03: 2200
01.03. 1+, no other finished games in this period: --> New rating 01.05: 2228
Case 2:
Finished games 01.01-28.02: 9=, 1+ --> New rating 01.03: 2214
In case 1 the value of the won game was 28, in case two it was 14.
IMO the value of a result should not depend from the number of games you have finished in a period. The value of a result only should depend on the rating of both players that they have at the start (preferable) or at the finish date of the game and the result. And the rating formula should be like
NewRating = LastRating + SumOfAllValuesOfFinishedGamesInThisPeriod.
That's the way (idea) IECG is computing the ratings.
Thibault de Vassal (2007-03-11 23:44:31)
Quotes from the forum...
I picked up a few ones from the forum ! .. I have great ones by Elmer Valderrama, Ilmars Cirulis, Don Groves and Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff. I keep it secret and I'll add it very soon, I think the authors will appreciate :)
Feel free to suggest me other ones...
Phil, about your quote it also happen at chess ;)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-04-05 16:06:36)
BigChess Championship
Hello to all.
BigChess is a great game. No books, no engines, and no ratings!
A BigChess Championship is an excellent idea. I think that everyone should be able to take part in this tournament. And - if possible - it should start as soon as possible. If we must wait until 7 different players (not seven times Thibault :-) ) have won a tournament, then the Championship probably starts only in 2009.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-04-06 00:07:27)
BigChess Championship
Ok, but perhaps you can change the condition to select the seven players. Maybe you can give points for place 1 to 4 (1. = 7 pts, 2. = 5 pts, 3. = 3 pts, 4. = 1 point) in every tournament, which wasn't finished at the start of the last Championship. The seven players with the most points are qualified for your single round-robin tournament. Or is this too complicated?
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 ?)
Volker Koslowski (2007-04-12 22:02:56)
Big Chess Championship
I think that a system based up on points suggested by Heinz-Georg is a good idea for a BC Championship. It is not very complex and maybe we must not wait until 2009 for the first final round robin tournament :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-04-13 01:20:14)
Active players rating list
Because of the 60-days rule maybe you should display the players who connected to the server during the last 60 days?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-05-01 19:57:43)
Rules
The rules are two clicks away: First click "Help" and then "FICGS general rules".
Are the WCH rules visible on the side of the WCH waiting list, if the waiting list is open?
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)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-06-26 21:41:21)
30 days / year is enough
I think 30 days / year is enough.
If you fear that you could get time problems don't play too many and avoid Rapid tournaments. Nobody forces you to enter every waiting list.
And according to Murphy's Law "such things as computers breaking down, computers hit with viruses, business travel commitments, planning a holiday etc." always happen if you have no more vacation.
Thibault de Vassal (2007-06-26 22:04:29)
Rapid tournaments
I agree that rapid tournaments (30 days + 1 day / move) may be quite hard for some players, but as Heinz-Georg and Wolfgang said, it's up to you to choose the tournaments that fit to your available time.
WCH tournaments are quite hard to play the same way, but that's a condition to start a new cycle every 6 months and adding days of vacation may last important games and force some adjudications. That's why I'm not favourable to this change.
But I agree, that's quite hard not to enter certain waiting lists too... (it's a fight of every day) :))
Miguel Pires (2007-06-27 02:53:26)
Heinz-Georg and Wolfgang and thibault
First I only give my opinion. Second I can't control the start date of the tournements soo i've 2 tournaments that start almost at the same time Third, the point is not if i've to many games, but, in my opinion, if we should have little more time (like in GK) or have the same thing like in ICCF. That's what we are talking in this pool, not any choice of any particular player that gives an opinion, and you don't agree with that and criticises is whay of seeing or conduct thing's Best Regard' Miguel Pires
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.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-07-09 17:40:17)
FICGS__CHESS__WORLD_CHAMPIONSHIP
Thibault will be back home tomorrow, so the wch will start in the (tuesday) evening !
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-09-19 18:02:57)
New options in Preferences
Hello Thibault!
Nice update, but ...
Is it possible to set in the preferences how to start a FICGS session? I would like to have "display all games" and "slow moves" as default ...
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-09-23 17:24:17)
50 moves rule
Hello Wolfgang,
look at the Playing rules (http://ficgs.com/membership.html#playing, 11.3.a.)
Wolfgang Utesch (2007-09-23 17:35:41)
50 moves rule
Hello Heinz-Georg, think you for that! So FICS has another special rule, different to ICCF or FIDE!
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2007-11-11 16:04:50)
Number of games limitation
Hi Thibault,
I prefer: no limitations.
But if you think FICGS need it: 60 games.
Best wishes Heinz-Georg
Thibault de Vassal (2008-03-18 19:43:35)
Quote festival, part 4
Now everyone (but newcomers) know the principle :)
Feel free to let your madness go and share your own quotes about chess, life and whatever.. The best ones will enter the FICGS quotes files :)
... just like in this previous thread :
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=forum_read&id=3448
- Hello Thibault, if I have had a plan (and I had one, I hope), I have forgotten it during the last week... - Hello Heinz-Georg. What do you mean a plan ? :)
(Anonymous players during a Big Chess game)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-04-07 15:56:48)
Call referee
Hi Lincoln,
there is one of the FAQs:
Question - My opponent is checkmated, why the game isn't finished ?
It's a more friendly way and your opponent can send a last message to you. If he does not resign, he will lose on time anyway. (you can call referee if it takes too much time)
So in case of a checkmate you can call referee.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-05-12 20:02:28)
Rating changes
Hello to all,
I think a player should be removed from the waiting list if his rating is out of the restriction of the tournament.
In my opinion TER means the rating at the start of the tournament not at the entry into the waiting list. If the tournament starts the current rating is used as TER.
For example in FICGS__CHESS__CLASS_M__000015 the games with Jason (!) and Sandor were rated with 2174 and 2147 and not with >= 2200 (their ratings when they entered the waiting list).
No words in the rules about this theme?
Best, Heinz-Georg
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-07-17 00:42:45)
Mirroring moves
Hello Thibault,
I think it is not possible to decide if a player mirrors moves ("plays simultaneously the same game ...") in two games before the two games have been finished.
Best,
Heinz-Georg
Thibault de Vassal (2008-08-07 17:03:04)
Longest game
I wondered the same a few days ago... I'll write a small script to find such statistics today ;)
92 moves, Wolfgang... not bad, we will see.. In another category, I played a 200+ moves big chess game with Heinz-Georg :p
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-09-18 20:13:56)
Big Chess Championship
Hello Thibault,
let us start this championship!
Best, Heinz-Georg
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-09-22 23:32:54)
Big Chess Championship
I think, the Big Chess Championship should be announced as a championship. We should not use this M-tournament instead.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-09-28 16:45:05)
Big Chess Championship
To drive this theme I propose a champions-league-type tournament with a new round every 18 month. At the beginning the groups can be built according to our rating list.
Other ideas?
Best,
Heinz-Georg
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-09-28 22:33:50)
Big Chess Championship
I don't like the idea to exclude players with a minor rating.
And the length / duration of a Big Chess game does not depend on the mode of the tournament.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2008-10-03 13:41:21)
Time limit is part of the game
I agree with Marcus, Don and Michael. I think, there is neither a reason to change the results in your games, Thibault, nor to change the rules.
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