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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, 2026 January 3 0:19:50 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 : 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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