http://www.ficgs.com/forum.html Last messages in FICGS forum http://www.ficgs.com/roundrobin-tournament-results-misaligne-q14070.html The round-robin tournament table displayed under the “Players now ordered by score and performance:” section is misaligned (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html Just stretch the rating ranges to fill them faster. If it was 0-2500 they would fill daily, so find the right amount of tourneys with the right rating (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html Ok... many thanks for your answers! Thinking about it. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html Alternatively you could decrease the number of participants to 4 per tournament and each player would need to play agains each opponent as white and black (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html I wouldn't close it, but changed form of starting them. Now we have to wait for the list of participants to be completed, but what about starting games (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html I prefer Rapid, but closing one or the other would make sense to me. Closing Rapid and keeping Standard would be ok too. The existence of the 2500+ category (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html I would prefer for them to stay. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html one potential line could go: 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 h5 3. Bg2 h4 4. Nxh4 Rxh4 5. gxh4 e5 6. d4 Qxh4 7. dxe5 Bb4+ 8. c3 Bc5 yes per SF18 White still has a sizeable (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Stockfish-unbeatable-at-modest-settings-q13738.html excellent post! i have to find time to read it ALL .... (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html in blitz I'd even try 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 h5!? 3.Bg2 h4 4.Nxh4, then 4...Rxh4?!? (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html Yeah, we don't want anybody defecting, and I personally prefer standard over rapid at this point .... (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html If that happens, I will leave FICGS immediately (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Closing-Standard-chess-tournaments-q14058.html Hello everyone, This topic to know your opinion on the idea to close the whole Standard chess tournaments, to keep & favour Rapid ones. Waiting (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Cheating-Forfeiting-q164.html Actually one good thing about playing H.Pe.. from the Czech Rep. , in a thematic anyway, is that because of the line we've entered, i've been doing a quite (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html It gives me an idea for a different approach after 1.Nf3 b5 2.g3 Bb7 3.Bg2, so there's that :) (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html yeah I might try 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 h5!? OTB I'd love to use it at a FIDE tourney 2 miles from me in 2 weekends .... (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html i did join the wait for the KGA a second time though, not done testing it, had an idea for White I wished I'd tried, to better prepare my *black* repe (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html As usual I'd like tourneys that are suited to my repertoire, so I'd narrow it down to simply 1.Nf3 b5, or, how about simply 1.b3!? (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Chess-Cup1st-Stage-q13462.html September 1st, 2026... the waiting list will be open soon! (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Chess-Cup1st-Stage-q13462.html When will the next Ficgs Cup be starting? (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Stockfish-unbeatable-at-modest-settings-q13738.html 17.1 @ 50 million nodes still holds up, so I'll continue playing it as black. But I see no need to keep playing these deterministic strategies as white. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 h5 3. Bg2 h4 4. Nxh4 e5 - there is this too, I have tried it out few times :D (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html Not suggesting the following, but decades ago I came up with 1.Nf3 b5 2.g3 Bb7 3.Bg2 e5?! (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html I mean, not sure if I would participate in the Balogh thematic tournament. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html Balogh is too dead. I would like to win against it, why not, but not sure if I'm ready struggle for very long time and then lose. ':D (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html Heh, that's why I'd want to test this out in correspondence games. Is the Balogh still viable whatsoever, or is it refuted? I've analyzed games as (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Cheating-Forfeiting-q164.html I think Thib should be concerned about players, in my case, ME, will not enter any tourney waiting list in which Pech, et. al. have already entered. This (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html With wider ranges, there is a chance to BEAT lower rated players, for instance in a 1700-2099 range, a 2000+ rated player could play, and presumably beat, (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html There is a way to advance rating wise. Losing to a 1900 cant happen, because we dont play in the same rating band. Except for WCH. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html ok well maybe he read your post above, anyway I've been guilty too to some degree (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html Hi Paul, but why? I think it can probably be shown that it's making the sections take much longer to fill up than previously, and this site is already (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html I like the tournaments rating ranges at this moment... (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html After 1. e4 d6 2. d4 f5 3. exf5 Bxf5 4. Nf3 it does appear that white is just winning. With Stockfish 17 (still not SF 18 because the Mac Stockfish GUI (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html Isn't that (the Balogh) winning for white? (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html How about the Balogh: 1.e4 d6 2.d4 f5!? (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html OK I know I largely instigated the rating changes, but I think they should be reverted for the lower rating ranges, all the way up to 2000-2399. Then (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html So what I'm really describing is the death of correspondence chess, which I think everyone can see by now. My suggestion to make the game somewhat interesting (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html About the top rating group. Under current conditions, there is no meaningful difference in playing strength between any of the players rated above 2200. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Too-many-groups-for-tourneys-q13903.html 3 months after... what do you think? Any adjustment to make or is it still ok? (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html Rule 11.1 "Responding to a provocative message is strictly forbidden and may lead to get a limited access to the server during a few weeks, at (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html Thib, it's primarily in the sidebar chat. He's really been provoking me (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html I'm not sure if it's authorized to promote FICGS thematic tournaments on Lichess, but it may be a good idea to try. I'm not sure if the last message (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html you know, I tried to respectful toward this douchebag Pineda but he keep poking me. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html Those are good ideas Mr. Pineda, I'm not at all familiar with LSS, just here and iccf. And of course I'm suggesting something pretty significantly different. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html start some kind of group on lichess, even though its focus if far from correspondence chess, it's the best place to reach as many chess players as possible. (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html An idea I've been thinking of lately is to focus on opening thematic tournaments, many more than we have here now, and establish a presence, and promote, (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html As for me I like the way LSS starts games... and I like the way it starts at FICGS... but most of all, I like it is different. Patience is why correspondence (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Fixing-FICGS-q14023.html It all seems to be about mentality, increasing one's rating so one can play better opponents and avoid low quality games, only to find out there aren't (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Next-thematic-tournament-q13465.html I'm also going to throw the comparatively unexplored Haberditz/QGA into the ring: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 a6 4.e3 b5?! I've been delving into this recently, (...) http://www.ficgs.com/Cheating-Forfeiting-q164.html I don't disagree with Ulises either, but only ONCE I resigned all my games with no intention of ever coming back, but then because I was in waiting lists, (...)