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Paris,   2025 July 2   6:43:59             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






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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 :

Taboada, Pedro Pablo        
Bernal Varela, Nelson        
Aahlad, Yeturu        
Horoshilov, Andrey
Gray, Garvin        
Boehme, Sebastian        
Lim, Mark        
Hallqvist, Niklas        
Paul, Samagata
Osipyants, Vladimir        
Schangareev, Mirzian        
Szczepanski, Zbigniew        
Cirulis, Ilmars        
Kireev, Sergey        
Gounant, Stanislas        
Petrovich, Valery
Duttagupta, Aniruddha        
Wilson, Norman        




This game was played at FICGS :




Last move : 1/2-1/2     2024 December 1   14:56:17


[Event "FICGS__CHESS__CLASS_D__000300"]
[Site "FICGS"]
[Date "2024.05.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Pintor,Manuel"]
[Black "Brodie,Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1835"]
[BlackElo "1692"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 d6 3.Nf3 exf4 4.Bc4 Be6 5.Bxe6 fxe6 6.O-O e5 7.d4 Nd7 8.d5 Ngf6 9.Ng5 Nc5 10.Nc3 Be7 11.Qf3 Nfxe4 12.Ngxe4 O-O 13.Qg4 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 Kh8 15.c4 Bf6 16.Nxf6 Rxf6 17.h4 Rg6 18.Qh5 Qf6 19.g3 Rh6 20.Qg4 Rg6 21.Qh3 Rf8 22.g4 Qf5 23.Kh2 Qxg4 24.Qxg4 Rxg4 25.Kh3 Rg3+ 26.Kh2 Rg4 27.Kh3 h5 28.Bd2 f3 29.b3 f2 30.Be3 Rf3+ 31.Kh2 Rxh4+ 32.Kg2 Rxe3 33.Rxf2 Rg4+ 34.Kh2 h4 35.Raf1 R4g3 36.Rg2 Rh3+ 37.Kg1 Reg3 38.Rf7 Rxg2+ 39.Kxg2 Rg3+ 40.Kh2 e4 41.Rxc7 e3 42.Rxb7 a5 43.Re7 g5 44.a3 g4 45.b4 axb4 46.axb4 e2 47.Rxe2 Rb3 48.b5 Kg7 49.Re4 Rb2+ 50.Kg1 Rb1+ 51.Kg2 Rb2+ 52.Kg1 Rb1+ 53.Kh2 Rb2+ 54.Kg1 h3 55.Rxg4+ Kf6 56.Rf4+ Ke5 57.Rf2 Rb4 58.Rc2 Kd4 59.Kh2 Rb3 60.Rc1 Kd3 61.c5 dxc5 62.d6 Rxb5 63.d7 Rb2+ 64.Kxh3 Rb8 65.Rxc5 Rd8 66.Rc7 Kd4 67.Kg4 Kd5 68.Kf5 Kd6 69.Ra7 Rxd7 70.Rxd7+ Kxd7 71.Ke5 1/2-1/2










 
 
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