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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






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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.





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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 :

Matisz, Gergely
Taboada, Pedro Pablo        
Tedoldi, Guido
Cranshoff, Thomas
Pichelin, Xavier        
Hallqvist, Niklas        
Osipyants, Vladimir        
Schroeder, Christoph        
Gray, Garvin        
Legrand, Stephane        
Kruse, Herbert        
Kachibacha, Jobadi        
Koudelka, Artur
Mach, Jiri
Pech, Jaroslav senior
Pech, Matej        
Pech, Stepan        
Pechova, Hana        
Pech, Jaroslav        
Swiatek, Janusz        
Gueci, Alberto        
Detchin, Yra        
Brand Lyard, Paul        
Aahlad, Yeturu        
Leurette, Marc-Antoine
Krakovsky, Peter        
Bernal Varela, Nelson        
Ligon, Scott        




This game was played at FICGS :




Last move : 0-1     2015 February 15   21:59:39


[Event "FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_04__000014"]
[Site "FICGS"]
[Date "2014.11.01"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kirali,Hasan"]
[Black "Ortiz,Clodomiro"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1916"]
[BlackElo "2050"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e4 Bb4 6.Bg5 c5 7.Bxc4 h6 8.Bxf6 Qxf6 9.e5 Qd8 10.O-O cxd4 11.Nxd4 O-O 12.Rc1 Bc5 13.Nf3 Bd7 14.Ne4 Bb6 15.Qe2 Bc6 16.Rfd1 Nd7 17.b3 Rc8 18.Nd6 Rc7 19.Rc3 Qe7 20.Rcd3 Bc5 21.Bb5 Bd5 22.Bc4 Nb6 23.Nd4 Rd8 24.Bxd5 Nxd5 25.N4f5 Qf8 26.Qg4 g6 27.Ne3 Bxd6 28.exd6 Rxd6 29.Nxd5 exd5 30.h4 Rcd7 31.h5 b6 32.Rd4 g5 33.g3 Qe8 34.Kg2 Qe6 35.Qf3 Qe5 36.Qg4 Qe6 37.Qf3 Rd8 38.R1d2 Qd7 39.Qd3 Qe8 40.b4 b5 41.f4 gxf4 42.Rxf4 d4 43.Rdf2 Qc6+ 44.Kh2 Qd7 45.Rf5 Qe8 46.a3 a6 47.R2f4 Rd5 48.Rxf7 Qxf7 49.Rxf7 Kxf7 50.Qh7+ Ke8 51.Qg8+ Ke7 52.Qg7+ Ke6 53.Qxh6+ Kd7 54.Kg2 d3 55.Qd2 Rc8 56.Kf3 Rd6 57.Qf4 Rc4 58.Qf7+ Kd8 59.Qf8+ Kc7 60.Qe7+ Rd7 61.Qe5+ Kb7 62.Qe8 Rcd4 63.Qe1 d2 64.Qd1 Re7 0-1










 
 
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