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There are at least 100 results for Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff in the forum.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2020-12-13 18:44:07)
What happened to all the players?
In LSS, the server only terminates games if a player does not respond for a longer time and the engine used by the server evaluates the position of this player as lost. Furthermore, the ELO numbers of the two players are important. However, Ortwin does not publish the exact algorithm. He only published some examples in advance.
By the way, obvious draw positions are not finished.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2020-12-12 18:40:37)
Cannot make a move
I have the same problem as Dariusz.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2020-12-12 18:39:05)
What happened to all the players?
And this is the reason why I will not start any tournaments at LSS after finishing my last game. It should not be the server's job to estimate and finish a game.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2016-05-26 16:49:15)
Bugs after the server crash
... and in the rating lists:
Caire, Fran�ois
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2016-05-26 16:46:13)
Bugs after the server crash
FRA S�gur, Laurine 8k
Found in the go and other waiting lists
Best, Heinz-Georg
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2014-03-03 18:14:56)
Standard time control abusers
Why do you think that a serious player would join FICGS if he cannot play serious correspondence games here? He hasn't done it during the last two years, so he will not do it after this restriction of tournament structure.
IMO time control 30/+1 is only suitable for correspondence cafe chess games. It's enough time for poker games, maybe even go games, but chess? That's enough in no case, if you have to work or want to play on others sides too.
I don't play normal chess on this side because the class tournaments are not attractive enough. At least I should climb the next class level if I win a tournament. With this ELO-driven classification that is not the case. And in the WCH there is not enough time to play a serious game. Furthermore, I don't like the preferential treatment (own groups) for the "better" players. I think that many players feel the same way.
By the way I think it's terrible that chess players are condemned here because they spent their time (or vacation) as they need it. According to the rules that is their right.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2014-03-03 01:40:14)
Standard time control abusers
I can't believe that one player has success with his permanent and aggressive posts. What a terrible development of the server. So I can no longer recommend this website as a chess server.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-12-24 15:07:01)
FICGS poker ratings
This is the right thread, Garvin. I have the same problem as Stephane in his poker game 72996. And I tried to describe my way to handle this situaton.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-12-24 14:12:26)
FICGS poker ratings
I also have this problem with exactly one player. And I have now decided to act in the same manner against this player. If it looks as if I lose then I'm going to reply when my time is almost over.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-03-23 13:51:58)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
On other sites vacation can be taken per tournament. That's what I prefer. But I think the current vacation rules on FICGS are ok.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-03-19 17:51:20)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
I can not imagine how a player can gain an advantage from the vacation time. Ok, he can analyze his games during that time, but his opponent has the same option. So the additional time cannot be the key to a win.
In my opinion the problem for some players is that it is annoying when they have to wait longer for an answer. I don't think that this should be a reason to change the vacation rules.
If the rules are changed however, this should not happen until the beginning of next year with the new vacation period.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-03-12 17:38:02)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
At work I can take a single day off, but not in my hobby? That sounds strange ...
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-03-10 18:43:00)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
To Neel: You can also take advantage of it :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-03-10 18:41:09)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
It should not be the role of rules to regulate my use of the leave. If 45 days is too much, then reducing the number of days.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2013-03-10 17:12:40)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
I'm against this change!
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2012-09-20 18:32:53)
Limit number of poker games
We had this discussion several times, but it never leads to a change.
My problem is, that sometimes I cannot enter a waiting list because of too many running games. I accept, that the games can last very long - that's not nice but I can live with that. But it should not stop me to get some new games with fast players. That's the reason why I asked Thibault to increase the number of poker games. Is there a problem if the number is increased to 100?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2012-09-19 17:29:38)
Limit number of poker games
Hello Thibault!
Please change the number of possible poker games to 100 (or make it unrestricted).
IMO it makes no difference if a player forfeits 50 or 100 games, even not for the ratings.
If you see a way to reduce the time control, then do it, but I think there is no way ...
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2012-03-07 18:27:21)
50+ Poker Games
I like Paul's idea of special counting the number of running game. This eliminates 5 of my games.
But I hope, that the idea to estimate poker games, will not be implemented. That is not a solution of the problem.
In some of my games my opponent and I can move only once per day, because we have a different rhythm of life. My opponents are playing in the morning and I at night. So we are online rarely at the same time. Furthermore, my games often last longer than 1000 moves. Therefore, it is only natural that these games take a long time. I don't like that these games will be estimated after a year.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2012-03-05 21:00:43)
50+ Poker Games
As fas as I remember the change was made for chess games. And there (including Go) I absolutely agree. Poker is a completely different category of games. Here no long time-consuming analyzes are needed. So why not allow more than 50 games? No one forced to play so many games.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2012-02-25 01:28:45)
Rating Rules in Poker
I don't know which rule is better. Maybe the old was more attractive.
Thibault de Vassal (2012-02-24 20:36:16)
Folding in Poker
Ok, note: it could have been discussed in the forum when I announced it... Anyway the current rules may be better at the end, ratings are not dedicated to change faster than necessary. It also avoids that anyone can reach the top just by lasting a few games.
Also look at the results of Nelson:
vs. Aleksey Payzansky (2086) : 67% (56 games, 38 wins, 18 losses)
vs. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006) : 90% (52 games, 47 wins, 5 losses)
vs. Jason Repa (2095) : 58% (39 games, 23 wins, 16 losses)
vs. Yulian Kehayov (2022) : 54% (35 games, 19 wins, 16 losses)
vs. Anderson Barradas (2021) : 72% (29 games, 21 wins, 8 losses)
vs. Scott Nichols (2119) : 64% (28 games, 18 wins, 10 losses)
vs. Lubos Fric (1924) : 68% (25 games, 17 wins, 8 losses)
vs. Stephane Legrand (2187) : 54% (22 games, 12 wins, 10 losses)
vs. Rolf Staggat (2116) : 61% (21 games, 13 wins, 8 losses)
vs. Janeen Walden (2000) : 75% (20 games, 15 wins, 5 losses)
IMO he just fully deserves his rating. The reason why noone else can reach it may be just that he's the best player for a while, what do you think?
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2012-02-23 23:44:10)
Rating in Poker
Hello Thibault,
you wrote: "When you win or lose a game against a similar rating, you still win or lose about 20 or 30 points so it goes quite quickly."
This is no longer true. If both players have the same rating (> 1999), the winner wins 9 points. Even if the loser has 300 points more, the winner gets only 16 points.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2011-12-17 00:48:16)
Holiday
Everyone should be able to use his vacation in the way he wants / need it. I see no reason to change the rules.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2011-11-30 23:35:40)
New feature to block messages
I agree with Jimmy. I have made the same experiences. I'm also glad that we have this feature now. Thank you very much, Thibault.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2011-03-06 15:03:21)
FICGS chess World Championship #9
I do not like this special treatment of players from a certain rating (no matter whether 2000, 2100, 2200, 2300) already from the beginning of the WCHs. And I don't like that the TER is decisive in the case of equal points.
I think it's bad luck if in a group are players with a provisional rating or a small rating (and the player starts to use engines now). But in my opinion all members should be allowed to play the WCH without restrictions.
Maybe games should not be rated for a player with an established rating, if the rating of his opponent is provisional only. But that's another theme.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2011-02-27 15:48:42)
FICGS chess World Championship #9
It seems that nobody likes the special groups for players with rating > 2300 in the chess WCH - but those who can play in these groups.
Maybe the provisional rating of a player should be (1800+<rating of the engine he uses>)/2 :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2011-02-06 14:06:40)
Update for BigChess & Poker rating rules
Hello Thibault,
the previous poker rating rules I like better - although I currently much benefit from the new ones :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-11-07 16:33:07)
FREESTYLE CUP POKER
I would like to play this tournament if I have time.
Maybe we can use 10 min and 20 sec per hand as a time control. Thibault, is that technically possible? I think "hand" is a better unit than "move".
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-08-18 23:31:27)
Speeding up Poker games
In my opinion the new fold button is no improvement. It just confuses.
Thibault de Vassal (2010-08-03 12:46:54)
Congratulations to "FSF en passant"
Finally here are the final results !!!
"FSF En passant" won this very interesting tournament by 1 point ahead of 2 teams !! The suspense was until the very last games to know the final team ranks.
The fact to note: Yellow Blue warriors finish second while they were actually 3 players in the team, Yura Lemekhov played an amazing tournament (5.5/6 , perf 2456) ... (the last player stopped to play :/)
Thanks to all players, it was lots of fun! I'll try to make the things clearer in the tournaments pages for the next edition...
10 points for : FSF En Passant
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
Volker Koslowski (2264)
Sebastian Boehme (2175)
Roland Markus (2096)
9 (tot: 15.5) points for : The knights who say "Ni"
Michael Aigner (2602)
Xavier Pichelin (2577)
Hannes Rada (2559)
Thibault de Vassal (2473)
9 (tot: 13.5) points for : Yellow-Blue Warriors
Iouri Basiliev (2173)
Dmytro Romaniuk (1937)
Ostap Hladky (2176)
Yura Lemehov (2171)
8 points for : The Dark Knights
William Taylor (2140)
Scott Nichols (2089)
Don Groves (1991)
Josef Riha (1989)
4 points for : Happy Pawn
Stephane Legrand (2209)
Garvin Gray (2125)
Daniel Parmet (1961)
Ilmar Cirulis (1805)
2 points for : Our team King
Alexander Blinchevsky
Stanimir Denchev
Benjamin Block
Ranganathan Raman
0 point for : The Ghost Knights
Vadim Khachaturov
Yugi Inving
Sophie Leclerc
Jorge Orden
Ni FSF Dark Happy Blue Ghost King
Aigner 1 = = = = =
Pich 0 = = 1 1 1
Rada = = 1 = 1 =
DeVas = = 1 0 1 1
0 Lehnh = = = = =
1 Koslo = = 1 1 1
= Boehm = 1 = 1 1
= Marku = 1 = 1 1
= = Taylo = = = =
= = Nicho = 1 1 1
= = Grove = 0 1 =
= = Riha 1 0 1 1
= = = Legra = = =
= = = Gray 1 1 1
0 0 = Parmet 0 1 =
0 0 0 Ciruli 0 1 1
= = = = Basili = 1
0 0 0 0 Romani 0 0
= = 1 1 Hladky 1 =
1 = 1 1 Lemekh 1 1
= 1 = = = Khacha =
0 0 0 0 1 Inving 0
0 0 0 0 0 Lecler 0
0 0 0 0 0 Orden 1
= = = = 0 = Blinch
0 0 0 0 1 1 Denchev
= 0 = = = 1 Block
0 0 0 0 0 0 Raman
"Team 1" - "Team 2" : points (score)
"Ni" - "FSF" : 1-1 (2-2)
"Ni" - "Dark" : 1-1 (2-2)
"Ni" - "Happy" : 2-0 (3-1)
"Ni" - "YB" : 1-1 (2-2)
"Ni" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Ni" - "King" : 2-0 (3-1)
"FSF" - "Dark" : 1-1 (2-2)
"FSF" - "Happy" : 2-0 (3-1)
"FSF" - "YB" : 2-0 (2.5-1.5)
"FSF" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"FSF" - "King" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Dark" - "Happy" : 2-0 (2.5-1.5)
"Dark" - "YB" : 0-2 (1.5-2.5)
"Dark" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Dark" - "King" : 2-0 (3-1)
"Happy" - "YB" : 0-2 (1.5-2.5)
"Happy" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Happy" - "King" : 2-0 (3-1)
"YB" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (2.5-0.5)
"YB" - "King" : 2-0 (2.5-1.5)
"Ghost" - "King" : 0-2 (1.5-2.5)
Definitely, even if the "Knights who say Ni" team decided before the match to play unusual openings in most games, this tournament shows again that the strength gap between top players and players rated 2150-2300 is not big at all as many of these players tend to reach the 2400 barrier...
Thibault de Vassal (2010-06-04 00:34:04)
Contest : FICGS, acronym for...
"First International Community for Global Sleep" (Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff) :)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.... :>
Thibault de Vassal (2010-06-02 18:28:31)
Incredible poker hand
Another interesting one, here Rolf Staggat vs. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff... when the Flush becomes Straight Flush against Full House... 170 chips this time.
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=viewer&game=41893&move=373
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-05-15 01:25:36)
Big chess engine
Does the world really need a Big Chess engine? I can live very well without it. If I absolutely like to play against machines, I can play normal chess.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-05-08 20:12:05)
How many games at once?
I agree in no point with Don.
By the way, if you play more than 50 games of chess or go you cannot enter a chess or go waiting list. The same is valid for poker games.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-05-03 00:22:51)
Speeding up Poker games
I like best of 5. I would not like to miss it.
I think small blinds could raise earlier: 20/2 35/4 50/8 65/16 80/32 100/64.
"there is a "bullet" time control for poker": That's true, but not an alternative to a tournament. I have tried it once. After more than 2 hours and (only!) 265 moves my opponent had to resign because he has to do other things. If I think that I played many poker games with more than 1000 moves ...
Conditional moves are too complicated for poker I think.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-05-02 17:19:25)
Speeding up Poker games
There will be a problem for those players who can only move once a day. If they live on the "wrong" side of the world and / or they only can move between 5 and 6 o'clock of our time, 10d+12h will not work. If you only offer this time control they will not be able to play.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2010-05-02 16:02:41)
Speeding up Poker games
Hello Thibault,
maybe you can create a new category (Rapid Poker) with "10 days + 12 hours per move"? Then we can test it.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-12-06 23:50:19)
Idea to avoid DMD at Poker holdem
Does it mean: first in, first out (to answer first in the "oldest" game)? Have I to answer in a predefined order? In this case I would say: no, this is not what I want.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-10-30 00:06:43)
Amazing statistics
Thank you, Thibault, but maybe we should ignore the poker games or divide the number of these moves by 10? Then it would not be so evident :)
Thibault de Vassal (2009-10-29 23:01:27)
Most active players, amazing statistics!
These statistics (updated every 2 days) are available at :
http://www.ficgs.com/about.html
And the overall winner is........ :)
Players most active : General (moves played)
1. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff : 124234
2. Rolf Staggat : 81806
3. Anderson Barradas : 55829
4. Stephane Legrand : 47936
5. Scott Nichols : 46711
6. Mark Noble : 37387
7. Findlay Murray : 35874
8. Volker Koslowski : 33241
9. Don Groves : 29539
10. Thibault de Vassal : 26104
11. Francisco Gramajo : 25281
12. Sergey Uzdin : 25256
13. Michael Sharland : 24890
14. Josef Riha : 24193
15. Jason Repa : 22765
16. Laurine Ségur : 22577
17. Alexis Bromo : 20198
18. Benjamin Collette : 20112
19. Fernando Vasquez : 19928
20. Laszlo Kis-Kos : 19174
21. Christian Koch : 18450
22. Evgeny Yarkov : 17168
23. Xavier Pichelin : 16559
24. Garvin Gray : 16388
25. Ranganathan Raman : 15750
26. Sebastian Boehme : 15190
27. Zdravko Stoyanov : 15186
28. Nick Ioffe : 15151
29. Phil Cook : 15007
30. Sean McNabb : 14572
31. Daniel Parmet : 13814
32. Ilmars Cirulis : 13118
33. Joaquim Malpalma : 13057
34. Dmitriy Panov : 12733
35. Nelson Bernal Varela : 12119
36. Marco Roncagliolo : 11741
37. Dmytro Romaniuk : 11648
38. Miroslav Rakovic : 11435
39. Nick Burrows : 11242
40. Janeen Walden : 10967
41. Claude Brisson : 10812
42. Sandor Porkolab : 10714
43. Christophe Czekaj : 10678
44. Janusz Kepinski : 10675
45. Peter Willoughby : 10634
46. Benjamin Block : 10633
47. Kate Lubeck : 10155
48. Charlie Neil : 10076
49. Darko Pipac : 10072
50. William Taylor : 10036
Players most active : Go
1. Don Groves : 17026
2. Claude Brisson : 10812
3. Nick Ioffe : 10795
4. Alejandro Suarez-Moreno : 10018
5. Mickaël Simon : 8986
6. Thibault de Vassal : 8870
7. Sean McNabb : 8666
8. Sergey Tarassov : 8236
9. Phil Cook : 8186
10. Tetsuya Kobayashi : 7816
Players most active : Chess
1. Josef Riha : 24119
2. Fernando Vasquez : 19820
3. Zdravko Stoyanov : 14523
4. Anderson Barradas : 12587
5. Ilmars Cirulis : 12200
6. Laszlo Kis-Kos : 12068
7. Janusz Kepinski : 10675
8. Garvin Gray : 10638
9. Scott Nichols : 10211
10. Charlie Neil : 10076
Players most active : Chess 960
1. Christophe Czekaj : 1224
2. Joaquim Malpalma : 916
3. Frederick Estieu : 672
4. Ilmars Cirulis : 605
5. Pavel Háse : 600
6. Sefa Sarihan : 524
7. Sandor Porkolab : 512
8. Jay Melquiades : 495
9. Christian Koch : 470
10. Rick Spangler : 447
Players most active : Big Chess
1. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff : 5583
2. Peter Willoughby : 4368
3. José Carrizo : 3319
4. Thibault de Vassal : 3199
5. Mark Noble : 2949
6. Sandor Porkolab : 2467
7. Volker Koslowski : 1887
8. Paul König : 1790
9. William Taylor : 1706
10. Ranganathan Raman : 1620
Players most active : Poker Holdem
1. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff : 111119
2. Rolf Staggat : 75570
3. Stephane Legrand : 41639
4. Anderson Barradas : 38671
5. Scott Nichols : 36500
6. Findlay Murray : 33008
7. Mark Noble : 31172
8. Volker Koslowski : 25829
9. Michael Sharland : 20721
10. Francisco Gramajo : 20431
Congrats Heinz-Georg, definitely you're the most addicted player ;)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-09-23 00:11:35)
#3
Hello all,
I vote for number 3). It's not the task of the admin to correct my faults.
Only if a program error was the cause for a mistake, the administrator may correct.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-08-23 13:51:45)
Slow moves
Hello Thibault!
Please don't remove the "slow moves" for poker games.
I don't like the "fast moves" because it doesn't show the situation after I have sent my move (hands and new community cards).
I don't need the chat windows but I don't like to be disconnected if I write a message to an opponent (I do that in poker games too)
Best, Heinz-Georg
Thibault de Vassal (2009-05-23 00:31:31)
1st team tournament : games & results !
A new thread to comment the games & results in the 1st FICGS team tournament that just started ! The teams are :
>> The knights who say "Ni"
Michael Aigner - 2602
Xavier Pichelin - 2577
Hannes Rada - 2559
Thibault de Vassal - 2473
>> FSF En Passant
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
Volker Koslowski (2264)
Sebastian Boehme (2175)
Roland Markus (2096)
>> The Dark Knights
William Taylor - 2140
Scott Nichols - 2089
Don Groves - 1991
Josef Riha - 1989
>> Happy Pawn
Stephane Legrand 2209
Garvin Gray 2125
Daniel Parmet 1961
Ilmar Cirulis 1805
>> Yellow-Blue Warriors
Iouri Basiliev
Dmytro Romaniuk
Ostap Hladky
Yura Lemehov
>> The Ghost Knights
Vadim Khachaturov
Yugi Inving
Sophie Leclerc
Jorge Orden
>> The Knights with no name (yet)
Alexander Blinchevsky
Stanimir Denchev
Benjamin Block
Ranganathan Raman
You can follow the games here :
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_1__000001
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_2__000001
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_3__000001
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_4__000001
Note : The first player displayed in each tournament table is not always the player of the first team because when the 1st & 3rd players of a team play White against another team, the 2nd & 4th play Black against the same team, this is not obvious to read (sorry).
I'm really sorry to the 2 players that were not included in a team, but we had to start the tournament now... The last team may still announce their name (provisional : "The knights with no name")
Have nice games :)
Thibault de Vassal (2009-05-17 23:11:38)
Complete teams !
The team tournament should start very soon, complete teams are :
>> Yellow-Blue Warriors
Iouri Basiliev
Dmytro Romaniuk
Ostap Hladky
Yura Lemehov
>> Happy Pawn
Stephane Legrand 2209
Garvin Gray 2125
Daniel Parmet 1961
Ilmar Cirulis 1805
>> FSF En Passant
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
Volker Koslowski (2264)
Sebastian Boehme (2175)
Roland Markus (2096)
>> The Ghost Knights
Vadim Khachaturov
Yugi Inving
Sophie Leclerc
Jorge Orden
>> The knights who say "Ni"
Michael Aigner - 2602
Xavier Pichelin - 2577
Hannes Rada - 2559
Thibault de Vassal - 2473
>> The Dark Knights
William Taylor - 2140
Scott Nichols - 2089
Don Groves - 1991
Josef Riha - 1989
Players without a team yet (one team is possible, with 3 more players, we could build one more) :
1. Ranganathan Raman
2. Alexander Blinchevsky
3. Stanimir Denchev
4. Benjamin Block
5. Murray Findlay
Did I forget someone ? So we have 6 complete teams + 5 players without a team.
We should be able to start the tournament in a few days ! :)
Volker Koslowski (2009-05-13 12:32:49)
New Team
Hi to all!
I would like to announce a new team called FSF En Passant for the first FICGS team tournament. We are:
1. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
2. Volker Koslowski (2264)
3. Sebastian Boehme (2175)
4. Roland Markus (2096)
and we are looking forward for some nice games at this tournament. So let's have fun :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-05-06 14:44:35)
Scoring
"I agree with William on this point, if a team scores 4-0 or 3-1, it is 2 points for the team, 1 point if the score is 2-2, 0 otherwise"
I also agree with William. But I would prefer that the results 3,5-0,5 and 2,5-1,5 would give two points to the first team too :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-04-22 22:01:52)
Team chess league
Maybe I'm the only one, but if the same nationality is compelling for all players of a team, I am not further interested in this competition.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-04-21 20:25:51)
Team chess league
I don't like the idea of national teams even if "my" team exists only of players of one single country. If four players decide to play in a team, then this team should also be able to take part in this team competition.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-04-21 17:54:24)
Team chess league
I propose to start with 4 players per team.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-04-14 20:20:57)
Draw offer
In my opinion only the marked check box should be a regular draw offer. There is also no way to accept a draw offer and finish a game by sending a message to your opponent.
Messages are nice, but should not have any influence on the game. And we should not misuse Thibault (the referee) to decide if our games are drawn.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-04-05 13:21:55)
Will the games be viewable?
Hello Philip,
you can try
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__UNRATED_TOURNAMENT__000001
or
https://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__UNRATED_TOURNAMENT__000001
Denis Ivanchenkov (2009-03-29 13:54:47)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff
Hello Heinz-Georg,
>I answered to a question of Samy according to Big Chess.
>There we have four rooks :)
>You should try this great game :)
oh - I see the point! :)
yeah - I'd love to try big chess game - though i need a bit more free time - maybe in summer vacations? this must be fun and combinationally more intensive game ! :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-03-22 23:57:33)
notation
Hello Denis,
I answered to a question of Samy according to Big Chess. There we have four rooks :)
You should try this great game :)
Denis Ivanchenkov (2009-03-22 23:34:58)
notation
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff, would you be so kind to tell me what 4R means? 4 rooks captured? though it is possible I'd prefer if site engine would make reverse engineering of those 2 extra rooks to the original pawns and write in the following manner - 2R 2P - well that's just my point of view
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-03-22 18:04:51)
Captured pieces
Sorry: personal notes, not messages
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-03-22 17:58:25)
Captured pieces
Hello Samy,
to know which pieces are captured in your games you can write it into the personal messages of the games:
White: 2B, 2N, 3P
Black: Q,4R
and so on. I think it is a good solution without changing the software.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-03-13 18:10:06)
Categorys
In my opinion unrated tournaments should not be devided into categories according to the ratings of the players. If we have no categories the tournaments are filled much faster.
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-03-10 15:22:31)
Big Chess World Championship
Hello Big Chess fans!
I have finished about 120 Big Chess games. Only 5 last more than a year (all with Thibault :) ).
I propose that the WCH should be a 2 stage round-robin tournament starting once per year. As usual the groups of the first stage should be filled according the Big Chess ratings.
The winner of each group is qualified for the second stage. If more players are needed to build a final group of 7, 9 or 11 players Thibault can invite the best of the second placed of the first stage groups.
If all players of the final group are known the second stage should be started within a month.
I hope this WCH will be a success :)
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2009-01-28 00:15:09)
And a great move ...
And what is white's next move in this game:
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=viewer&game=24653&move=97
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.
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 (2008-09-28 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 (2008-09-22 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 (2008-09-18 20:13:56)
Big Chess Championship
Hello Thibault,
let us start this championship!
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
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 (2008-04-07 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 (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
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.)
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 (2007-07-09 17:40:17)
FICGS__CHESS__WORLD_CHAMPIONSHIP
Thibault will be back home tomorrow, so the wch will start in the (tuesday) evening !
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 (2007-06-26 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 (2007-06-20 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 (2007-05-01 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?
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 (2007-04-06 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?
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.
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 (2007-01-21 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.
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 (2006-12-04 23:24:35)
I'm in
Ok, just for fun ...
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.
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 (2006-09-10 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 (2006-09-06 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 (2006-09-06 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 (2006-09-05 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
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?
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 17:35:32)
Another try...
~ 30 seconds. Browser IE 6, Speed 3 Mbit/s
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2006-09-05 17:03:50)
Time to display all informations
35 seconds - but the page is great
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
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 (2006-07-15 17:40:05)
Big chess
Hi Thibault!
No time to continue the game?
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.
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.
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 ...
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 (2006-06-19 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?
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