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Informations FICGS directory : Chess openings , Countries , Encyclopedia , Players , Databases A free database full of chess games played by famous players... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Paris, 2025 April 25 12:52:52 See also the FICGS rules. Here are some statistics (highest rated players, total number of members) and SEO informations (PageRank, Alexa Rank, backlinks, visitors) for the site. See also the archives FICGS informations (2024 May 01) Keyword : "correspondence chess" Google rank : 51 Yahoo rank : ? Google rank "chess" : ? Google rank "internet chess" : ? Google rank "play chess online" : ? Google rank "play chess app" : ? Total statistics : Members : 14439 Members (active) : 238 Forum posts : 13680 Wikichess : 241343 Games : 145122 Games finished : 143781 Best game : # 140744 Top chess rating (active) : FEM Alberto Gueci, 2580 Top chess rating (playing) : FIM Ramil Germanes, 2510 Top advanced chess rating : FSM Herbert Kruse, 2648 Top big chess rating : Stephane Legrand, 2304 Top Go rating (active) : Heinz Georg Lehnhoff 1 dan, 2124 Top poker holdem rating : Nelson Bernal Varela, 2353 As you can see, the total number of players (chess, Go & poker holdem included) increased more slowly until 2017 than it used to from 2006 to 2010. That was before the FICGS chess applications for Android, then the launch of the Chess Trainer on Facebook. Correspondence chess does not attract all players of the world, particularly when chess engines like Stockfish, Komodo or Houdini are authorized, which is considered as cheating by many of them. But the aim here is not to gather all kind of players, it is well known that it is not possible to please everyone. Here, all databases and engines are authorized, many players are so called centaurs. Finally, FICGS got APPs to play on mobile phones to attract more casual players. At the end, FICGS remains recognized as a major chess organization, different from most internet chess servers and makes its possible to be the place for the highest level chess, and a peaceful & constructive community as well. Despite of the many successes of chess engines over humans, it seems that the global popularity of online chess did not change for years. Internet chess remains lots of fun, but it is probable that correspondence chess (played at very long time controls, like 30 days + 1 day per move) has become less interesting for many players since that the part of human analysis significantly decreased in terms of pertinence, even for the very best players of the world, compared to the computers one. In a way, correspondence chess may have melted with freestyle chess. Also, the number of running games indicates that Go (weiqi, baduk) and Poker holdem attract more and more players, probably because of their bigger complexity. Anyway, soon or later, AlphaZero & newer artificial intelligences will undoubtly beat all humans in every cards and board games, maybe even in sports too very soon. Fortunately, this does not make chess, Go & poker less fun & interesting to learn and play. Here is the list of all connected players, this list is refreshed as soon as a player connects to the server, or when a session expires. Connected players : Koudelka, Artur Mach, Jiri Pech, Jaroslav senior Pichelin, Xavier ![]() ![]() ![]() Szczepanski, Zbigniew ![]() ![]() Staggat, Rolf ![]() ![]() LaDuke, Matt ![]() ![]() Fioravanti, Diego ![]() Wilson, Norman ![]() Schroeder, Christoph ![]() ![]() Osipyants, Vladimir ![]() Pech, Matej ![]() ![]() Hallqvist, Niklas ![]() ![]() Yarkov, Evgeny ![]() ![]() Ozen, Bahadir ![]() ![]() Pech, Stepan ![]() Aahlad, Yeturu ![]() ![]() ![]() Pechova, Hana Pech, Jaroslav ![]() ![]() Leurette, Marc-Antoine Denisov, Timofey ![]() ![]() ![]() Boehme, Sebastian ![]() ![]() ![]() Khachaturov, Vadim ![]() ![]() ![]() Phillip, Lennox Gray, Garvin ![]() ![]() Hybl, Vladislav ![]() Vasquez, Fernando ![]() ![]() Ligon, Scott ![]() ![]() Kruse, Herbert ![]() ![]() This game was played at FICGS : Last move : 1-0 2008 December 10 19:45:15 [Event "FICGS__CHESS__RAPID_E__000006"] [Site "FICGS"] [Date "2008.10.30"] [Round "1"] [White "Barradas,Anderson"] [Black "Belaz,Egidio"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1210"] [BlackElo "1266"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bg4 7.Be2 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 Nc6 11.Be3 Re8 12.Re1 b6 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.exd5 Na5 15.b3 b5 16.Bd2 Nb7 17.a4 Bf6 18.Rc1 Nc5 19.axb5 Qb6 20.b4 Nd7 21.Be3 Qxb5 22.c3 Nb6 23.Bxb6 axb6 24.Be2 Qd7 25.Bg4 Qb7 26.Qf3 Rac8 27.Bxc8 Rxc8 28.Re4 Qxd5 29.Rg4 Qd2 30.Rd1 Qa2 31.Qb7 Rd8 32.Qxb6 Qc2 33.Rxd6 Rf8 34.Rxf6 g6 35.Qc7 e4 36.b5 Qb1+ 37.Kh2 Qxb5 38.Rxe4 Qd5 39.Rd4 Qg5 40.Qe7 h5 41.Rd8 1-0
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