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Game result (chess) S. Ligon, 2321 M. LaDuke, 2326 1/2-1/2 See game 152178 |
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D. Gukesh is new FIDE world champion Ding Liren is new FIDE world champion Eros Riccio wins 21st FICGS corr. chess WCH Stockfish 15 is available Carlsen beats Nepomniachtchi, remains FIDE WCH Ding Liren wins Grand Chess Tour Wesley So is Fischer Random World Champion 2019 Eros Riccio wins 17th FICGS corr. chess WCH Ding Liren wins Sinquefield cup 2019 Magnus Carlsen remains FIDE WCH 2018 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, 2026 June 9 6:44:8 See also the FICGS rules.
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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
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 :
Petrovich, Valery
Walton, Kim
Kruse, Herbert
Hallqvist, Niklas
Aahlad, Yeturu
Bernal Varela, Nelson
Yarkov, Evgeny
This game was played at FICGS :
Last move : 1-0 2008 November 7 16:0:29
[Event "FICGS__CHESS__WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_14__000005"]
[Site "FICGS"]
[Date "2008.07.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Plant,Kevin D."]
[Black "Mohandoussaid,Malik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2112"]
[BlackElo "2098"]
1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Bd3 Be7 6.Nc3 Bg4 7.h3 Bh5 8.Bf4 c6 9.O-O O-O 10.Re1 Bg6 11.Bxg6 hxg6 12.Qd3 Nbd7 13.a3 Re8 14.Re2 Bf8 15.Rae1 Qa5 16.Ne5 Qd8 17.g4 b5 18.Nxc6 Rxe2 19.Rxe2 Qb6 20.Qxb5 Rc8 21.Qxb6 axb6 22.Na7 Rc4 23.Nab5 Rc6 24.g5 Ne4 25.Nxd5 Nd6 26.Bxd6 Bxd6 27.Re8+ Kh7 28.c3 Nc5 29.Na7 Bh2+ 30.Kxh2 Rd6 31.dxc5 Rxd5 32.cxb6 Rd2 33.b7 Rxf2+ 34.Kg3 Rxb2 35.b8Q Rxb8 36.Rxb8 1-0
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