Ficgs.com Website Review

FICGS is a fast-growing organization, player community and an international CORRESPONDENCE CHESS server. Here you can play chess online for free in rated clas* tournaments, two players matches, advanced chess and a unique correspondence chess world championship in a big knockout tournament. The winner will play current world champion in a 12 games match. We also organize special events, thematic chess, big chess, chess 960, PO*ER TEXAS HOLDEM heads up tournaments, some with MONEY PRIZES. Check At last on FICGS, you can play GO (围棋, 바둑, 囲碁, Cờ vây, Го) tournaments and world championship. Even if computers are now able to beat the very best human players from China & South Korea, its complexity still makes it one of the most interesting board games. White clock -  54 DAYS  21:18:33 Black clock -  20 days  23:19:07 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.d4 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Bg2 c6 9.e4 d5 10.exd5 cxd5 11.Ne5 Bb7 12.O-O Nc6 13.Bf4 Rc8 14.Rc1 Ba3 15.Rc2 a6 16.Bg5 Be7 17.Na4 Re8 18.Be3 a5 19.Qe2 Ba6 20.Nxc6 Rxc6 21.Rb1 Qc8 22.Qd1 Ba3 23.Bc1 Bd6 24.Bg5 Nd7 25.Rbc1 dxc4 26.bxc4 Ba3 16th cycle, his challenger kindly accepted to answer a few questions and shared his views on correspondence chess and the influence of chess engines such as Stockfish, Houdini or Komodo, and the AlphaZero AI. You can read the complete interview in the forum Although many say that it seems quite impossible to beat such a correspondence chess champion in a 12 games match nowadays, you'll probably find some tips in the previous answers by former champions & finalists. Always playing the best move according to the strongest chess engines may not be the solution. Ideas from the famous Art of war by Sun Tzu still can be used in this modern chess era, and maybe in other games as well like Go & po*er holdem, now all dominated by machines. shared his an*lysis on the games and his views around the world of Go (Weiqi, Baduk) and particularly computer Go in the forum