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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 :

Cleto Junior, Dirceu        
Phillip, Lennox        
Cirulis, Ilmars        
Hernandez, Humberto
Kruse, Herbert        
Marcel, Alexis
Korossy, Peter        
Pineda, Ulises        
Jerez, Miriam        
Martinez, Silvio        
de Vassal, Thibault        
Boehme, Sebastian        
Jempty, George        
Domingo, Jordi        
Jimenez Alban, Xavier Miguel
Guralivu, Paul
Armstrong, Keith        
Sorbi, Luca        
Hallqvist, Niklas        
Bernal Varela, Nelson        
Gounant, Stanislas        




This game was played at FICGS :




Last move : 1-0     2007 April 12   5:31:40


[Event "FICGS__CHESS__CLASS_C__000028"]
[Site "FICGS"]
[Date "2007.02.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Khachaturov,Vadim"]
[Black "Behrmann,Klaus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1733"]
[BlackElo "1775"]

1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nc3 O-O 6.Nf3 Ne4 7.O-O Nxc3 8.bxc3 d6 9.Rb1 Bf6 10.Ba3 Na6 11.e4 fxe4 12.Nd2 Qe8 13.Nxe4 Be7 14.f4 Rb8 15.Re1 b6 16.Nf2 c5 17.Qc2 Nc7 18.Be4 g6 19.dxc5 dxc5 20.Ng4 Bd7 21.Qe2 Bc6 22.Rbd1 Bxe4 23.Qxe4 Bf6 24.Nxf6+ Rxf6 25.Bc1 Rf7 26.Qd3 Qa4 27.Re2 Re8 28.Be3 Rfe7 29.Bf2 Qa3 30.g4 Qa4 31.Bg3 Rf7 32.Red2 Qc6 33.Qe2 Ref8 34.Rd6 Qe8 35.Bh4 Qa4 36.Bg5 Re8 37.Rd8 R7f8 38.Rxe8 Rxe8 39.Rd6 1-0










 
 
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