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Author New correspondence chess server !
FICGS

2006-08-02, 11:26 pm


Hello. I'm new in this forum !

I would like to introduce to you FICGS, a new but not leas
Correspondence Chess Server... http://www.ficgs.com

The aim of FICGS is to offer an open & always improving server fo
Corr. Chess & variants and to offer WCH & tournaments formulas whic
fit to the most... For example, there are a lot o
old-classical-chess-world-championship-cycles nostalgics and I think
good WCH cycle can't be an exclusive round-robin tournaments cycle)


Features of FICGS server :

- Cost free
- Direct tournament registration, automatic tournament creation
- Class & rapid tournaments, special tournaments & events, ches
variants & go tournaments
- Tournaments with entry fee and prizes (soon)
- Games : Chess, Chess 960, Big chess (a special FICGS anti compute
variant), Go
- Graphical interface available for each game. (see Help) Emai
notification.
- Different appearance of chess board, different backgrounds, mult
language interface
- Live games (rss available) and games database available for al
members
- Live tournament results & informations (category, points required fo
norms etc...)
- Automatic rating calculation every two months, rating history
- Titles FICGS (EM, IM, SIM, GM) ... Automatic title norm
calculation
- Javascript and Html viewer for classical chess & go
- Simple move entry by clicking on pieces and destination fields, o
plain text format (PGN)


You can visit the server http://www.ficgs.com with the guest / gues
account


The server started today. More about FICGS on TCCMB :
http://pub11.bravenet.com/forum/924995304/fetch/552912/


Thanks & best wishes.

Thibaul

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