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A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2026-01-27 18:14:57)
following the knock out stage of wch 28
Hmm this would be the right number. But I believe there is still a knock out phase coming, following this final group phase:
https://ficgs.com/tournament_FICGS__CHESS__WCH_ROUND_ROBIN_FINAL__000028.html
I would suppose this has also a number 28. Does this check out?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2026-01-26 09:59:30)
following the knock out stage of wch 28
Where can you follow the knock out stage of wch 28? I can't find it.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2026-01-21 10:17:50)
Ghost player
I have an opponent in a wch cycle who last connected to the server on Januari 18. But somehow his profile shows that his last move was on Januari 20. ,yesterday. I noticed this once before already against another player. Unless this is a bug, it's really shady.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-12-02 07:42:03)
Next thematic tournament
@Wilhelm your suggestion "1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3" is fine by me.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-12-02 07:40:53)
Next thematic tournament
Feel better soon Clodomiro.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-10-08 11:44:36)
Next thematic tournament
In the Leningrad 5.d5 is indeed suboptimal, but the lichess engine prefers 5.Nf3. After 5.e3 black has a combination with 5...Qa5 6.Ne2 Ne4 7.Qd3 cxd4 8.exd4 Nxf2 9.Kxf2 Qxg5
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-10-07 09:44:32)
Next thematic tournament
@George, I think it's a bit too tame. Maybe this is an idea: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 c5 5. d5 b5 after which black has several options. This is much more double-edged.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-08-27 17:27:07)
start third stage chess WCH 28
All second stages of chess WCH 000028 have ended. When will the third stage start?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-08-01 09:13:35)
50 moves rule
it's not important anymore. In this wch game the site doesn't recognize checkmate: 147445
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-07-05 09:48:01)
50 moves rule
''please call referee if an obvious draw is not accepted by your opponent.'' - would such a position at some point count as an ''obvious draw''?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-07-05 09:43:33)
50 moves rule
I wonder if someone just can't find the winning plan even with engine, how long does the game have to go on?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-03-17 10:20:41)
Next thematic tournament
That's fine by me.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-03-15 19:42:24)
Next thematic tournament
You mean exf6? I think I got something interesting against that Caro Kann line. I am in.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2025-02-14 18:58:33)
I did not win a game since 3 years
I want to share my latest win with you (in a tournament full of draws): https://ficgs.com/game_145717.html
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-11-15 09:37:54)
stage 2 WCH 000028
I made some earlier post about this WCH. Now I was wondering when stage 2 of WCH 000028 would start (and if I would be in it ;)). I looked up the first stage tournaments of this WCH and I noticed that there seems to be a bug. For my group it says that there's only a leader and no definitive winner. Only by now all games have been completed. So it seems this is a bug, which potentially is the cause of the hold-up.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-11-08 09:32:10)
Next Ficgs World Championship Tournament
All first round games have been completed. What policy will be applied to ties? In my group, we have a three-way-tie.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-09-10 14:05:28)
Group winners first stage of Ficgs WCH
For group 1 t/m 5 it is already clear as crystal who's going to win and for the last groups as well, but those are shared group wins. Sadly many players prolong their game. And for group 6 and 7 I can understand, since the rules are such that in case of a tie the group win goes to the highest TER and after that to the highest rating holder.
But wouldn't it be best to just start a second round ASAP with two groups of five players? Or will it really come down to TER's and most recent ratings?
I included an oversight of the group winners:
Group 1
Kireev, Sergey
Group 2
Hallqvist, Niklas
Group 3
Knittel, Martin
Group 4
Swiatek, Janusz
Group 5
LaDuke, Matt
Group 6
Gounant, Stanislas
Pech, Stepan
Group 7
DeBonis, Patrick
Broekhuizen, A. T. S.
Ward, David
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-08-17 10:18:34)
Russian flag replaced
I mean, if the west only calls out Russia, then Russia can successfully claim that the west is hypocritical.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-08-17 09:37:33)
Russian flag replaced
Will other counties' flags also be suspended? I could think of a few other countries that are committing war crimes.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-06-04 20:28:07)
Looking for opponent in 1v1 match
@Ilmars Cirulis, Most of my current games have run their course. If you want, I am ready for another 1v1 match.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-05-06 10:42:34)
Looking for opponent in 1v1 match
Yes I played a couple of matches against Herbert Kruse. I tried out some ideas, but all games were drawn. Maybe in the first round of current WCC, I might win a game or two.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-03-19 17:27:57)
message for Thibault regarding...
No thanks. I will have to take my time then.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2024-03-16 20:34:57)
message for Thibault regarding...
... the tournament that I withdrawed from.
Dear Thibault,
February 25. I sent you an email that I had accidentally enrolled in two standard class M tournaments, by clicking a second time before the next page loaded.
This night I saw some new games and assumed it was the new WCC cycle. But upon closer inspection, it was the second Class M tournament that I thought I had withrawn from.
Added to the imminent new WCC this will be a bit much. So is it still possible to fix this?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2023-09-10 13:00:12)
Looking for opponent in 1v1 match
see: https://ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=entry_tournament&tournament=ficgs_chess_rapid_silver
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2023-09-02 07:39:02)
Next thematic tournament
Smyslov Nimzo-Indian: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 a5 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Nbxd2 O-O 7. e3 d6 8. Nb1 b6 9. Nc3 Bb7 10. Bd3
The knight manoeuvre on moves 8 and 9 is unexplored.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2023-08-18 14:32:53)
Next thematic tournament
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 h6 5. c3 d6 6. Nbd2 g5
Two knights defence, pianissimo invitation, declined. Played by some top gm's like Caruana. Seems to give white an edge, but is it winning?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-11-26 09:36:07)
I did not win a game since 3 years
Btw, here is the link to the gsame where I won against a KG with Nf3: https://ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=viewer&game=137701&auto=1&flip=1
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-11-25 17:26:08)
I did not win a game since 3 years
I am aware of these issues, nevertheless I think I could give any black player a difficult correspondence game in these two variations.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-11-25 16:48:19)
I did not win a game since 3 years
In case of the openings I mentioned earlier, I think there is a possibility for white to hold on to an advantage. The problem is that with the superhuman playing strength of engines nowadays, one will have to study harder than before to keep up with the engine. But now, after I studied these variations in detail, it has become clear. In practice one nowadays will have to have the right approach before the game to the played opening, otherwise I think it is not doable anymore to find the way to any white advantage during the game. This can be frustrating, but also in OTB chess more and more engine designed defences are played, so it is prudent to study these "unbeatable" defences.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-11-25 10:22:11)
I did not win a game since 3 years
I think it would be best to let every player take an equal amount of games with every colour.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-11-25 10:20:51)
I did not win a game since 3 years
I think you don't have to go as far as to play dubious variations, as long as the chosen variations (for a thematic tournament) still have some 'music' left in them. I also have two suggestions: the Rio gambit against the Berlin wall and the following transposition into the Rubinstein variation of the French defence: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4. Besides, lately I still have won a game against the King's gambit with black. But this is much harder than holding a draw with white, so I would not define success for white as a draw and for black as a win in this case.
Christoph Schroeder (2022-07-30 23:20:26)
poker reflection time
A single stage of a poker tournament lasts 3-5 years, as discussed in this thread. Preliminaries and finals combined, we are at 6-10 years per tournament.
Is "last man standing (being alive)" really the guiding principle of these tournaments? And does this annoy nobody?
It is very sad to see that this topic is another example where discussion is encouraged, an obvious solution is possible, but nothing happens.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-03-15 10:27:03)
withdraw from waiting list
Dear chess friends,
I'd like to withdraw from a waiting list, but I don't know the procedure.
It's FICGS__CHESS__RAPID_M__000129.
The reason is that the second round of last WCC has started and I need some time of the board as well.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-02-28 12:32:22)
FICGS support to Ukraine
About the flag issue. A united flag would be too soft. Just change everyone's flag to the Ukraine one for one day/week to show our sympathies.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-02-28 12:29:24)
FICGS support to Ukraine
Let me explain about the idea of a beneficiary tournament: the entrance fee, will ensure immediate money for refugees. While there could be no prize.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-02-27 14:31:00)
FICGS support to Ukraine
Maybe it is possible to organize a beneficiary tournament with entrance fee for Ukraine.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-02-27 14:27:01)
Ukrainian players clocks during war
in favour
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2022-01-16 16:56:26)
Christoph Schroeder (2021-09-07 15:42:02)
Stockfish 14 is out
Conrad Schormann describes why Stockfish 14 is superior to its predecessor versions (in German):
https://perlenvombodensee.de/2021/07/03/stockfish-14/
Christoph Schroeder (2021-07-18 13:00:19)
3 times repetition not recognized ??
Indeed, after my next move the repetition was recognized.
Christoph Schroeder (2021-07-18 12:55:47)
3 times repetition not recognized ??
As we have seen in another thread, some players need a tutorial for the ending KB vs K.
Apparently, others have never heard of the threefold repetition rule.
Christoph Schroeder (2021-07-18 02:23:21)
3 times repetition not recognized ??
Game 131349 is a 3 times repetition. My opponent still declines my draw offer.
Why isn't there an automatic end of a game when a position is repeated for the third time?
Christoph Schroeder (2021-04-06 08:53:31)
Poker Rating
In OTB chess I once lost a tournament game in 10 moves, blundering a winning combination by my opponent. Was my resignation at move 10 non-sportsmanlike?
The reason for losing quickly is most probably a lack of skill or an oversight by one player. Both things happen every day and are part of the game. No reason not to rate the game.
The consequence of this rule is outright ridiculous: a player who has the chance to mate his opponent before move 10, would have to refrain from mating and intentially play weaker moves, hoping that his opponent will resign only after move 10. I think noone really wants to see games like that.
Christoph Schroeder (2021-04-03 12:51:26)
Poker Rating
I really don't get the point of disallowing the rating of short games. It is like saying: "If a football team scores a goal within the first 5 minutes, the game result is cancelled (how dare they score so quickly?)."
In chess: What is the justification for handling a blundering of a piece at move nine (game not rated) differently from blundering a piece at move 11 (game rated)?
In poker, Herberts example shows the whole absurdity of the rule. If you are playing a maniac, such games can happen. What is the reason for not rating these games?
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2020-11-20 14:36:34)
Thematic tournaments?
QID, Petrosian variation: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Bb7
5. Nc3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5
Christoph Schroeder (2020-09-20 15:28:03)
Stockfish 12, neural network
... part 2 of the article:
https://perlenvombodensee.de/2020/09/07/stockfish-12-nachtrag/
Christoph Schroeder (2020-09-20 15:23:13)
Stockfish 12, neural network
Interesting article by Conrad Schormann on Stockfish 12:
https://perlenvombodensee.de/2020/09/05/stockfish-12-das-beste-aus-zwei-welten/
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2020-07-04 20:21:10)
Chess WCH #22 (march 1st, 2020)
Ok thank you. I will keep an eye on it.
A. T. S. Broekhuizen (2020-07-02 19:58:50)
Chess WCH #22 (march 1st, 2020)
Dear Thibault,
Today I got an automatically generated email saying that I had won the first round of this years WCH (in group 3). However there is another player with the same score and a higher TER. So can I just ignore this email?
Christoph Schroeder (2020-02-21 14:33:09)
Game decided by tablebase
Once this rule is established, I am sure that the cases where the arbiter has to be calles will be extremely rare.
Christoph Schroeder (2020-02-21 14:28:01)
Game decided by tablebase
Nowadays, all players are supposed to have access to 7 men tablebases. Therefore I propose to extend the rules to 7 men positions - IMHO the ICCF rules (referred to by Charles) make perfect sense.
That means: When a 7 men position is reached and the opponent refuses to resign resp. to accept a draw, the arbiter can be called and adjudicate the game immediately.
Christoph Schroeder (2020-02-04 01:13:01)
Go ratings, rule update
What is the initial rating for a Go player in his first tournament?
I noticed that most players start at 100, but my own initial rating was 000.
Christoph Schroeder (2020-01-28 23:00:27)
Waiting lists
Enabling to remove oneself from a waiting list should be given a higher priority.
Recently, I "played" a go tournament where all 6 opponents were non-starters. The high percentage of non-starters (not only in go but also in poker and chess) could AND SHOULD drastically be reduced by creating a possibility to step down before the tornament starts.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-12-25 17:00:44)
poker: not enough chips to pay BB
When a player has not enough chips left to pay his blinds for the next hand, the round should be lost for him.
But this is not the case. Example (just happened in one of my games):
My opponent has only 1 chip left. In the next hand, he ist the Big Blind which requires him to pay 2 chips. But instead of counting the round as lost for him, he gets a "discount" on his BB and has to pay only 1 chip, and the game goes on - but in a very strange way since my opponent has zero chips left, and there is no raising possible for neither side.
I cannot imagine that this behaviour of the poker software is intentional. Or is it?
Christoph Schroeder (2018-10-22 18:18:29)
Resigning in poker
Resigning in poker is absolutely uncommon. I cannot imagine any situation in which resigning a match or a round would be a reasonable option. Even if a player is trailing 0-2, he still has chances to win the match. So why would anybody consider to resign?
Moreover, the "resign" button is irritating, because it is unclear if resigning means resigning the current round or the current match.
Therefore, I propose to remove the "resign"-button completely.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-21 11:20:05)
poker reflection time
A possible way to reduce the game length would be going down to "best of three" from the current "best of five".
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-20 16:46:39)
poker reflection time
At the moment, there is a choice only between correspondence poker (5 years game length) and blitz (5 min + 15 sec) - and nothing in between.
The first is much too slow, and the second much too fast (noone wants to play it apparently, I spent many days in the waiting list without playing a single game).
I would appreciate if an intermediate speed, for example 15 min + 30 sec, could be introduced.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-18 01:03:49)
7 pieces tablebases
Regarding the argument that this rule might be unfair for players who don't want to use engines/databases, I would like answer with a comparison:
If I participate in a bicycle race - but as a runner (without a bicycle), this is strange enough, but maybe allowed. Much more strange, however, is the idea that the organizer of the bicycle race could be urged to adjust the bicycle race rules for the needs of the runners.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-17 17:37:38)
7 pieces tablebases
According to the ICCF rules, a game is won if the tablebase gives it as a win - no matter how many moves to mate are necessary.
The 50 moves rule was designed to stop playing on forever without making any winning tries. It is a logical development to set it out of order in these cases where a forced win can be proven.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-16 03:25:38)
7 pieces tablebases
If the rule is introduced, the no-engine-tournaments obviously should be excluded. For all other tournaments (where engines, databases and tablebases are allowed) I see no reason for any exceptions.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-14 18:24:07)
poker reflection time
In chess, an increment of 1 day per move is sensible and leads to manageable game lengths.
But in poker?
A poker game (consisting of up to 5 rounds) can have thousands of moves (that is another dimension compared to ~50 in chess). Therefore, I consider the current increment (1 day per move) as much too high.
My proposal: the increment should be one day per hand.
Christoph Schroeder (2018-08-14 18:17:02)
7 pieces tablebases
Some years ago, ICCF has introduced a very useful rule: as soos as a 7 men position is reached, players have the right to claim a win resp. a draw according to what the tablebase says.
Can this be implemented here, too?
Christoph Schroeder (2018-01-11 00:29:15)
1st King Supertournament
A King's gambit thematic would be great, but as a no engine version? No.
It is fun to search for truth in ancient openings like the King's Gambit, but that obviously requires the use of books, databases and engines.
Moreover, experience on other servers shows that in the so-called "no-engine tournaments" the majority of the players use engines, anyway.
Scott Nichols (2016-11-11 14:01:20)
Do the cards matter?
Dear Yeturu Aahlad, I have thought long about your inquiry. This is the best scenario I can come up with.
You are at a 9 player real money game. You know all the players. You all have decided to see who is the best.
You have been playing for many, many hours. All that is left is you and Him. Lets call him Eros. Last hand.
You are dealt pocket Black Aces. Eros acts first and checks. You feel you can just take the ante's now and move on, but you decide to slow play them and just call. The flop is 3clubs, 6hearts and Qhearts. Again Eros checks and you decide to bet a little again and he calls.
Now through all the hours of playing, you have gotten to know each other well. He is the type who talks and laughs, makes fun of people, belittles them and acts in a generally arrogant manner. (We all know the type). The KEY is to study all of this and, this is maybe the most important, study his microexpressions. Some people call them tells. But most all pros know how not to give away tells. But I have learned that microexpressions are involuntary. Let's get back to the hand.
The "turn" is a Jspades. He decides to bet, a good bet and of course you call. (slow playing). Now comes the moment of truth, "the river". It is an Ace of hearts. You are thrilled, and your face gives the microexpression for a tenth of a second. You now have 3 Aces, but there is 3 hearts on the board.
All of the sudden, Eros goes all in and walks away from the table. In my experience, the odds of him having 2 hearts in the hole is 23/1. HERE is the point if the cards matter. You can beat anything except a Heart flush. And the odds of him having that are 23/1. This is a real money, no limit game. If you call and lose, you lose 90% of all you hold near and dear.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
Thibault de Vassal (2015-01-09 20:46:20)
Eros Riccio on his win in 9th chess WCH
Eros Riccio kindly accepted to answer a few questions after his win in the 9th FICGS correspondence chess championship. Once again, his answers are worth to read... including probably a few surprises and valuable informations for most of us!
_____________________________
- Hello again Eros. Congratulations for this new win! So you played Jeroen for the second time in a row, this time in the 12 games format. There were 12 draws but it does not mean a lot. How did things go?
--> Hi Thibault! Nice to answer your questions again :-) I managed to resist again Van Assche's assaults, this time he was well-determined to win, as he made me really suffer in a couple of games. The first game was a semislav, me as Black. He played a rare variation (starting with 14.Be2 followed by 15.Qd3) that was new to me. At first the engines were giving 0.00 evaluations, but after the move 22.Qg3 they started to realize that Black's position was difficult, and they kept increasing their evaluation in White's favor move after move. That was quite a scary thing to see, and I really thought that I could have lost the game. I had to use all the thinking time (leave included) to be able to resist. This new variation impressed me so much that I decided to use it as White myself as a surprise weapon, and in fact it allowed my engine on autoplay on my old I7 980x to win a lot of games as White and a 500 dollars prize getting first place in a strong tournament on Infinity Chess. The second game was a Spanish, me as White. After his 7...0-0 I decided to avoid the Marshall (that would have probably happened if I had played 8.c3) trying the AntiMarshall variation 8.d4. I am now convinced that this variation gives nothing good to White, but I didn't know that yet when I played it! Already after the rare strong move 11...c5! things were starting to get difficult for me. He simply continued with c4 and d5, getting space advantage with his Pawns on the Queenside, while I could find no attack at all on the Kingside. Again I had to be very careful to escape with a draw.
- What can you tell about your other results this year, particularly at ICCF where you're now ranked #9 with an outstanding rating of 2639 ?
--> My ICCF elo in the past few years has raised. Slowly, but it has raised. I had no defeats and a couple of wins in the Olympiads and European team tournaments started in 2012. I am satisfied of that, as winning nowadays in top correspondence tournaments is very difficult. Important is to remain undefeated.
- Last year, you said that you felt like your play was getting weaker each day because your machine was getting older, did you finally upgrade it? But maybe this is a secret...
--> No. As I wrote earlier, I haven't updated my machine. Fortunately cpu's general speed has kept increasing not as quickly as in the past, so my I7 980x can still compete.
- Did your vision of computer chess evolve after these last 18 months? What do you expect for the next years? Do you plan to become a chess cyborg? ^^
--> Fortunately for our hobby, computer chess isn't rushing towards the "all draws" situation that I talked about a couple of years ago. That's because, fortunately, increasing cpu's power and engine's strenght is getting more and more difficult. Yes, some main lines already lead to all draws often, but chess gives so many openings options that to avoid that, you can simply play subvariations. When played a lot, also subvariations will become main variations. Then again, when the draws rate gets too high, you just pick another less played opening. It will take many years to cover every opening to a high draws rate.
- Your next challenger is Peter W. Anderson, who made a convincingly path through the round-robin cycle before to defeat SM Igor Dolgov 5-3 in the 10th candidates final (by the way he's also playing the 11th candidates final). It seems that you never played him before. How do you feel this match? Do you have any words for your opponent before that the games start?
--> I am happy to play a new player! We have just started our match, again, all my first moves as White were 1.e4. What to say... it's up to him to avoid main lines as Black (he already did it answering with 1...g6 in three games) if he wants to try to win with the black pieces. But the real challenge for him of course will be to try to win with the White pieces. It will be interesting to see if he can find holes in my Black repertoire like Van Assche was able to do. Let's wait and see!
Philip Roe (2013-10-03 21:01:42)
Tablebases and no-engines tournaments
Bogoljub,
When you enter the tournament by clicking on the waiting list, you are told that "chess engines, databases and opening books are strictly forbidden". I guess the idea is to reproduce OTB conditions as closely as possible.
Philip Roe (2013-06-11 14:08:13)
Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?
There are players, who I could name, who always run their clocks very low and use vacation a day or two at a time to avoid loss. I have absolutely no idea why they do that. They gain no advantage, and in fact frequently lose on time. In consequence they are greatly underrated. Paired against one of them, you may in fact lose (against a low-rated player) or gain an unsatisfying forfeit. This behavior is legitimate under the current rules but extremely irritating.
It is true that all rules can be abused, but it is not unreasonable to set up rules so that abuse is less likely.
Garvin Gray (2013-05-22 16:29:35)
Eros Riccio on his win in 8th chess WCH
From - Jeroen Van Assche
Garvin, to the far right of the address bar, maybe a shield is displayed. Click on it and then click Load unsave script.
Bingo, now I can see the diagrams. Thank you Jeroen.
Jeroen Van Assche (2013-05-21 22:16:19)
Eros Riccio on his win in 8th chess WCH
Garvin, to the far right of the address bar, maybe a shield is displayed. Click on it and then click Load unsave script.
To Eros, congrats again. I definitely need to improve my opening play if I ever want to beat you.
Thibault de Vassal (2013-05-07 13:17:57)
Eros Riccio on his win in 8th chess WCH
As you may know, Eros Riccio won the 8th FICGS chess championship by beating Jeroen Van Assche (who remains undeafeated though, he did not lose a single chess game at FICGS yet) in the candidates final, preventing him to play Eros again in the final.
Eros kindly accepted to answer a few questions:
- Hello Eros. First of all, congratulations for winning this 8th FICGS correspondence chess championship. Once again, you did not even have to play the 12 games match to defend your title as you won the qualifying tournament. In these conditions, the challenge was really tough for Jeroen Van Assche, in despite of his prodigious chess. He had to beat you consecutively in the candidates final (8 games match), then in the final (12 games match). How did things go in this candidates final?
Eros: Hi Thibault, thanks again! I was also worried to have to play a very strong player like Van Assche, but fortunately I had again the advantage that all draws were enough to win, and so my strategy was again not to take risks in all my games. As White it was easy... and surprisingly also as Black. The only game where I had to be more careful than others was this one: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qf3 h6 8.Be3 Qc7 9.0-0-0 Nbd7 10.Qg3 b5 11.a3 Rb8. Here Jeroen surprised me with an interesting novelty, 12.Kb1. The two times I had played this position I was White against Gueci and Kruse, and in both games I continued with 12.Bxb5 but couldn't get more than a draw. The idea of 12.Kb1 is to sacrifice a Pawn for the initiative after 12...b4 13.axb4 Rxb4 14.Nb3 Nxe4. The White Bishops are very strong after 15.Nxe4 Rxe4 16.Bd3 Ra4 17.Bd4 and fully compensate the Pawn less. Anyway I managed to defend, and when I was finally able to trade the Queens we agreed for the Draw.
- You also won the ICCF Umansky Memorial a few weeks ago, the italian correspondence chess championship (again) as well, obviously you played numerous games last year, what do you plan for the next months? By the way, Jeroen already qualified for the candidates final of the 9th cycle, meaning that he may play you in the final match next year if you defend your title again, is there a chance that we can see a revenge?
Eros: Yes, like in the past, also last year I have played a lot of games... anyway for the future I am planning to reduce my games a lot. At the moment, except a few games in minor tournaments, I am only playing for the italian colors at the Olympiads and European Championship, for ICCF. I didn't register for the new Italian Championship this time... I prefer to wait that another individual top ICCF Tournament starts. And of course I am also waiting to meet my next challenger for the FICGS Final! Maybe it will be Van Assche again, we have to see if he beats his opponent in the semifinal (actually next candidates final).
- It looks like a few chess engines reached a certain maturity, I mean algorithms. As a consequence, the computer speed may become the major evolution factor during the next years, that is generally slower than the program's improvements (but the future may have surprises, of course). What do you expect from the computer chess world in the next few years and its impact on correspondence chess?
Eros: As I have already said in a previous interview, being chess probably a draw with perfect play, the more engines get stronger, the more draws we will see. That's quite obvious.
- You probably do not play chess over the board so often, yet you have a quite good ELO! (about 2200, while many correspondence chess masters are rated below 2000 or not rated at all) By the way, I can certify that you are a strong blitz player after we met a few years ago. Do you still play tournaments?
Eros: I am not playing otb chess for a few years, my peak was 22... and a few points, I don't remember exactly. One of the main reasons why I stopped is because later, when analyzing my games with an engine... every time I got frustrated a lot seeing all the blunders I was making.
- Do you estimate that playing OTB chess is good to improve at correspondence chess?
Eros: Yes, it's useful especially if you develop a strategical style, then also in your corr. games you can see more easily "long-term-strategy" plans, which is still the "weakest strenght" in all engines.
- Do you feel that you're still improving at correspondence chess? If yes, is it mainly a question of opening book or something else?
Eros: Improving at corr. chess... hmm... I will surprise you with my thought about this matter! I think I can evaluate my strenght according to the speed of the computer I am analyzing my games with. When I bought this computer, 3 years ago, I felt like I could beat the corr. World Champion. Now... as my computer is becoming older and older, I feel like my play is getting weaker each day it passes. So my answer is that I am still getting worse at corr. chess, not improving.
Philip Roe (2012-11-28 10:08:59)
How do I stop the pop-up message boxes?
This happened to me (still does) using either IE or Firefox. I cant close the annoying tab, but I can just minimize it, which makes it invisible.
Thibault de Vassal (2012-11-04 01:23:15)
Eros Riccio wins 6th and 7th chess WCH
Only if Eros is reaching the candidates final while he's champion... that's the current challenge for Jeroen, that's the rule so that is fair.
Vadim Khachaturov (2012-08-21 07:36:00)
This is Russia :(
Dmitri, oil prices and production amount fluctuated over years and we can even see how they were http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm Not awkward decision could have been the fine exposure, or maybe 15 days, but not 2 years of imprisonment.Can You feel the difference? Its almost as large as the oil prices difference in nineties and zeroes.
Philip Roe (2012-01-04 00:02:21)
On rules & players who lost 300 pts
There are players (who I could name if asked) who are capable of strong play but who start many more games than they finish. Whatever the outcome, there is little satisfaction to playing them. The problem with trying to impose any penalty is to identify them without closely policing the sytem.
A possible solution might be that players who have recently lost many short games could be restricted in the number of new entries that they can make.
Thibault de Vassal (2011-11-13 19:52:28)
List ordered by rating
Here is, but as usual the new ratings (january 2012) will be taken in account...
Erwin Thiering 2515
Michael Bergmann 2475
Xavier Pichelin 2454
Thibault de Vassal 2449
Herbert Kruse 2436
Pavel Háse 2332
Ljubomir Tsenkov 2314
Rubén Cómes 2300
Wayne Lowrance 2266
Dariusz Fraczek 2261
Ramil Germanes 2255
Miroslav Gazi 2255
Alexander Blinchevsky 2253
Michael Sharland 2251
Sergey Kokoryukin 2251
Andrey Razumikhin 2250
Valery Nemchenko 2245
Lubos Fric 2241
Kevin D. Plant 2237
Christoph Schroeder 2236
Viktor Shishkin 2234
Slobodan Ilic 2218
Dmitri Mamrukov 2211
Vitaly Rudenko 2203
Alvin Alcala 2203
Carlos Sánchez 2203
Garvin Gray 2200
Scott Nichols 2189
Peter Unger 2181
Martin Zeman 2181
Christian Koch 2167
Stephen Hamby 2163
John Schutte 2136
David Evans 2132
Nelson Bernal Varela 2130
Darren DiAlfonso 2123
Ardiantez Polkwitzauer 2123
Thomas Dineen 2118
Peter W. Anderson 2112
Steve Lim 2110
Yu Ming Hoe 2100
Arkadiusz Wosch 2093
Djordje Kasabasic 2093
Luis Flores 2084
Daniel Parmet 2083
Lalit Kapoor 2080
Erik L. van Dijk 2074
Bernd Wolf 2072
Jose Lopez 2071
Sergey Uzdin 2064
Rodolfo d Ettorre 2064
Janos Helmer 2063
Om Prakash 2053
Mykola Simashkevitch 2043
Alexis Duenas 2037
Ireneusz Kasznia 2036
Mihail Larsky 2028
Joop Simmelink 2026
Pan Hardfeldt 2020
Henri Muller 2000
Jaroslav senior Pech 2000
Jaroslaw Gibas 2000
Bogoljub Teverovski 1997
Willy De Waele 1996
Fernando Vasquez 1992
Jose Moreira 1979
Andrew Endean 1975
Henri-Louis Muller 1972
Jose Maria Velasco 1972
Jordi Domingo 1969
Janeen Walden 1958
Andy Richard 1956
Roberto Migliorini 1949
Erika van Dijk 1943
Daniel Reboredo 1938
Coco Maceda 1938
Michael Rogers 1933
Aleksandr Aksenov 1927
Mariusz Maciej Broniek 1923
Robert Wilhelm 1901
Kieran Moore 1900
John Dyson 1889
Catalin Nita 1888
Daniel Jabot 1878
Johanes Suhardjo 1875
Mikhail Ruzin 1871
Benjamin Block 1863
Ilmar Ambos 1859
Vyacheslav Shchelykalin 1859
Jan Peter Lommler 1844
Stanislas Gounant 1840
Mircea Hrubaru 1838
Sasha Lipsits 1833
Nilson Pereira 1833
Aleksey Payzansky 1804
Jai Prakash Singh 1800
Fredi Brumec 1800
Gleen Duran 1800
Josef Strohmeier 1800
Ryszard Sternik 1776
Stepan Pech 1767
Dieter Faust 1764
Dmitriy Malish 1760
Dimitrios Ropokis 1743
Hasan Kirali 1715
Eddit Moreul 1700
Behzad Shahmiri 1700
Jaimie Wilson 1684
Dinesh Bhandarkar 1682
Philip Roe 1667
Olli Ylönen 1660
Graham Cridland 1655
Juan Alvar 1653
Jeremy Banta 1644
Luís Gonzaga Grego 1643
Pablo Siciliano 1623
Mariusz Jandula 1600
Sergey Biryukov 1598
Alejandro Canovas 1589
Jimmy Huggins 1577
Matthew O Brien 1575
Pablo Ruano 1565
Khaled Toutaoui 1528
Stanimir Denchev 1505
Leo Malagar 1500
Richard Hendricks 1479
Eric Price 1469
Antonio Pereira 1456
Angelo Piantadosi 1420
Simon Huxtable 1388
Peter Krakovsky 1326
Marc-Antoine Leurette 1243
Jorge Orden 1204
Hana Pechova 1204
Jorma Häkkinen 1192
Des Jefferis 1186
Deon Whittaker 1111
Matej Pech 1074
Jiri Mach 1022
Cédric Cavaillé 1003
Jay Melquiades 0909
Jaroslav Pech 0697
Philip Roe (2011-09-20 19:11:01)
Phantom ficgs
Hi Thibault,
Thanks for trying to think about this.
I was just about to post that it had disappeared as mysteriously as it arrived, but as I was typing it came back!!
It must be something odd that only happens to me. Perhaps a side effect of some automatic upgrade. Who knows??
Philip Roe (2011-09-19 21:44:13)
Phantom ficgs
Hi Thibault,
This happens on an HP Pavilion laptop, when I connect using either IE or Firefox.
There is no apparent pattern to the messages. Just now I got a line from Wikichess, a tornament start announcement, a note from you, part of a thread on Game 58473, advice that a player has just logged on. They seem to be things that have recently appeared above the chat bar.
Philip Roe (2011-09-18 05:19:36)
Phantom ficgs
When I am in the ficgs site, a second tab opens spontaneously in the ficgs format, and bearing some random message from the real site. The message scrolls across the page from right to left. I kill this tab and it returns after about a minute. It carries a label in the tab box "Message box 1"
Does this happen to anyone else? how do you get rid of it?
Philip Roe (2011-04-30 01:34:38)
Amateur player beats Rybka 4 !?
The description of the play is not precise, but for sure what this guy did was to pull some version of the old trick of pitting Rybka White versus Rybka Black (Oh look, I can beat TWO computers!)
Philip Roe (2010-12-16 03:31:35)
Chess positions too complex for engines
This ending is taken from Nunn's Chess Endings (Om. Garcia-Otero,Cuba 2002).
ChessPosition (see diagram)
White, to play, can force a Queen and Pawns ending that would be a long slow win, but he can also make a very profound triangulation that leads much more forcefully to the win. Nunn was very impressed that White found this at the board.
I would be interested to know how the engines do on this position.
Philip Roe (2010-10-05 17:20:42)
WCH Stage 1 groups (new players)
I think that the management of the WCH should not be too heavily weighted toward ensuring that "the best player" wins. On behalf of the underdogs, I would like us to have at least a sporting chance. If the cards are too much stacked against us the idea of an "open" tournament is lost, and we won't enter.
I looked at the statistics for cycle 000007. The top seed won outright 7 times, and tied for first on 7 other occasions. The second seed won outright twice, and tied first 7 times. The third seed won 5 times and tied twice. The fourth seed won once and tied twice. Out of all the winners, only the the two fourth seeds who tied had provisional 1800 ratings.
Are these numbers really a cause for concern?
Philip Roe (2010-09-01 04:27:05)
Latest deletions of chat
If I'm right, chat messages are deleted by clicking on the triangle to the left. I have no idea whether this is some kind of standard practice, but I must admit that once (long ago) I wondered "What happens if I click on this? Oh dear, I seem to have deleted it" I feel sure that others must have done the same.
So, Thibault, you have to work around the ignorance of people like me.
Philip Roe (2010-08-16 08:45:30)
Quote festival, part 6
Not to mention John Milton. See posts above.
Philip Roe (2010-08-16 00:55:23)
Tournament entry conditions
Thibault,
Is it reasonable for someone to enter a new tournament when they have twenty four existing games and have not played a single move in any one of them?
This situation makes me hesitate to enter either B 00120 or Rapid B 00158.
Jeroen Van Assche (2010-07-14 18:58:20)
Wch 7 Group N 01 (chess)
Hurray!
Thibault de Vassal (2010-07-14 18:15:14)
Wch 7 Group N 01 (chess)
Hi Jeroen, yes it was not the initial idea (it could have been though), but I had to "invite" one player from the N group to build a 7 players group for the future round-robin final (did not forgot you :))... but this was fully deserved anyway!
Jeroen Van Assche (2010-07-14 17:51:07)
Wch 7 Group N 01 (chess)
Hi Thibault
I won this tournament, but I'm not in round 2 of the 7th Wch cycle. Does this mean I immediately qualified for the Round Robin final (like in the M-groups)? Or did you forget me ;-)?
When I read this post I thought nobody from this tournament would advance immediately to the final.
Jeroen
Philip Roe (2010-06-23 18:18:11)
Philip Roe (2010-06-11 17:37:29)
Analysis board in Chess 960
Thibault,
I notice that when playing Chess 960 the analysis board does not come up. Is there a reason for that?
Philip Roe (2010-05-12 01:07:56)
A suggestion
Don, Somone who is not as nice as you might move against players who are not present, so as to put extra time on their clock.
Philip Roe (2010-03-12 15:45:54)
Tournament Leaders
But 1/1 is not better than 4.5/5
Philip Roe (2010-02-22 16:39:32)
Rating calculation
The link is not totally clear, but the way I read it, your performance is based on your opponents TERs. This is then used to modify your current rating. Am I right?
Philip Roe (2010-01-08 05:09:47)
Marc Lacrosse memorial
Thank you, Rodolfo!
Marc did indeed put enormous effort into this labor of love. I do wonder what his plans were.
I see that there are a lot of ICC games which were presumably speed games of some sort, and perhaps need to be taken with a grain of salt. Anyhow, it doesn't seem that I have made any blunders yet.
Philip Roe (2009-12-16 18:44:59)
possibilities
I dont know much about Go, but I do know that you cannot cover a region of the plane with pentagonal tiles.
If a polygon has n sides, each angle is 180-360/n degrees, and this must be a factor of 360 if some number of these polygons can meet in a point. The only possibilties are six triangles, four squares or three hexagons.
Other, irregular shapes can be combined to tile without gaps. They would be even more of a headache!
Philip Roe (2009-12-10 04:14:35)
Rodolfo
So although you say that you downloaded Marcs notes some time ago, you may have the latest version in existence. Perhaps you could forward it to Thibault and he can create a space for it.
It looks as if Marc put substantial effort into collecting it, and did intend some form of publication.
Philip Roe (2009-12-09 21:59:40)
Wiiliam
Using that trick I can get either to the chessbazaar homepage or to the Basman-Sale index. After that I get stuck because none of the links seem to go anywhere. Im not a very sophisticated web searcher!
Philip Roe (2009-12-09 04:14:10)
William
I already tried that and got the response "The page you are looking for could not be found" Do you know something that gets past that?
Philip Roe (2009-12-08 05:21:27)
Marcs notes
Thibault,
Presumably if these notes do come to light you will put them where all of the participants in Thematic 100 (and any subsequent sections) can see them.
Perhaps if they form the basis for a monograph, somebody might be prepared to edit it.
Thibault de Vassal (2009-12-01 09:19:00)
... actually it may be true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen_Piket
Thibault de Vassal (2009-12-01 09:17:09)
Joop van Oosterom/Jeroen Piket
We'll probably never know, but anyway that's ok for me, the name of Joop van Oosterom itself surely gave interest to the ICCF championship.
There are 100 results for Roe in wikichess.
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