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Game result (chess) L. Fric, 2312 G. Kerr, 2234 1/2-1/2 See game 117373 |
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Ding Liren wins Sinquefield cup 2019 Magnus Carlsen remains FIDE WCH 2018 Eros Riccio wins 16th FICGS corr. chess WCH Michael Adams wins british championship 2018 Russia wins the IBCA world team championship Eros Riccio retains title in 15th FICGS chess WCH Herbert Kruse wins the 1st FICGS corr. chess cup Caruana wins Grenke Chess Classic 2018 F. Caruana wins the candidates tournament 2018 Stockfish 9 is available to download more chess news... |
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Yen-Wei Huang wins 14th FICGS Go championship AlphaGo beats Ke Jie in 3 games match Google DeepMind beats Lee Sedol in 5 games match Google DeepMind beats Fan Hui in 5 games match Yen-Wei Huang wins 11th FICGS Go championship more Go news... |
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Paris, 2019 October 20 3:37:11 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 (2019 October 01)
Google Pagerank : 4
Alexa traffic rank (world) : 769,332
Keyword : "correspondence chess"
Google rank : 28
Yahoo rank : 3
Google rank "chess" : ?
Google rank "internet chess" : ?
Google rank "play chess online" : 72
Total statistics :
Members : 12559
Members (active) : 407
Forum posts : 12949
Wikichess : 178982
Games : 119134
Games finished : 117668
Best game : # 115916
Top chess rating (active) : FSM Herbert Kruse, 2705
Top chess rating (playing) : FSM Herbert Kruse, 2705
Top advanced chess rating : FSM Herbert Kruse, 2648
Top big chess rating : Stephane Legrand, 2297
Top Go rating (active) : Yen Wei Huang 4 dan, 2492
Top poker holdem rating : Nelson Bernal Varela, 2297
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.
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