FICGS - Correspondence Go Server

Hello to all. I apologize, as I don't speak a single word more in russian (I used to...)

I would like to introduce to you FICGS, a new Correspondence Chess & Go Server...
[www.ficgs.com]


Features of FICGS server :

- Cost free
- Direct tournament registration, automatic tournament creation
- Class & rapid tournaments, special tournaments & events, chess variants & go tournaments
- Tournaments with entry fee and prizes (soon)
- Games : Go, Chess, Chess 960, Big chess (a special FICGS anti computer variant)
- Wikichess, the open chess repertoire project.
- Graphical interface available for each game. (see Help) Email notification.
- Vacation (30 days per year) , Maximum accumulated time.
- Player statistics, future rating calculation...
- Different appearance of chess board, different backgrounds, multi language interface
- Live games (rss available) and games database available for all members
- Live tournament results & informations (category, points required for norms etc...)
- Automatic rating calculation every two months, rating history
- Opening statistics, vote for the best games played on the server
- Javascript and Html viewer for classical chess & go
- Simple move entry by clicking on pieces and destination fields, or plain text format (PGN)

The first GO TOURNAMENT just started for the FICGS championship.

You can visit the server [www.ficgs.com] with the guest / guest account


Thanks & best wishes.

Thibault


FICGS - Correspondence Chess & Go Server






FICGS - Free Internet Correspondence Games Server

[www.ficgs.com]

Hi, Thibault
Lot of Russian players are using Dragon Go Server. How do you think, which server is more comfortable and why?



Александр Динерштейн,
Go lessons [breakfast.go4go.net]
Разобранные партии [www.go4go.net]
Журнал "Гоама" [gogame.info]
Новости с серверов Го [GoSensations.com]

Hello ! I just discover DragonGo ... It seems to be a great and full features Go server, very different...

FICGS makes it in a pure competition way : everyone plays with real name, under unique rules (goban 19x19, time 30 days+ 1 day per move, komi 1/2), all go tournaments counts for FICGS championship qualifications.

Which is more comfortable... I couldn't say... In a way, it depends on "what players play for" ? Maybe just take a look. Really, I think it's too different.



FICGS - Free Internet Correspondence Games Server

[www.ficgs.com]

Ok, I just registred FICGS
It would be nice, if you can make some tournaments with prizes :)
We don't have them on Dragon Server



Александр Динерштейн,
Go lessons [breakfast.go4go.net]
Разобранные партии [www.go4go.net]
Журнал "Гоама" [gogame.info]
Новости с серверов Го [GoSensations.com]

Good news !

Go tournaments are now rated on FICGS. (there's a Go ranking list too)

Go ratings are first estimated from Go ranks (n kyu give a 2100 - 100 * n rating, n dan give a 2000 + 100 * n rating, n dan pro give a 2630 + 30 * n rating), then adjusted in real time after each result :

Performance = Opponent Current Rating + 200 if the game is won, -200 if the game is lost.

New Rating = ((9 x Current Rating) + (1 x Performance)) / 10

Tournament Entry Ratings (TER) are displayed in an informative way only.

Best wishes.

Thibault.



FICGS - Free Internet Correspondence Games Server

[www.ficgs.com]