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Chess world champions made the history of chess and probably gave to the game its popularity all over the world. The first official chess world championship would have occured in 1866, thus William Steinitz is considered as the very first chess world champion. Before 1886, the most famous players were probably Johannes Zukertort, Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy, Howard Staunton, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant, Alexander McDonnell, Lous Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais and so on...

         

The most famous chess world champions were undoubtly Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov and Bobby Fischer, at this time chess was at its apogee before that its popularity starts to slowly decrease, mainly because of the new computer supremacy with Deep Blue. Then chess engines running on home computers became able to beat every grandmaster and programs like Fritz, Shredder, Junior, Hiarcs or Rybka gained elo points year after year. Nowadays more and more people play chess through the internet and several websites run correspondence chess world championships, such as ICCF, FICGS or IECG. Correspondence chess started with postal chess before to be played via email, finally server chess appeared and almost completely replaced the other ways to play it as it was the most secure and fastest way to send a move.

The FICGS correspondence chess world championship is played in 5 stages, it is basically a knockout tournament imitating the old classical OTB chess world championship, but it also includes a round-robin tournament so that all players get a chance to play the current champion. Here are 4 games of the current final match where a move has been played recently.


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Riccio (2615) - Gueci (2545)



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.O-O-O Nbd7 10.Qg3 b5 11.a3 Rb8 12.Bxb5 axb5 13.Ndxb5 Qc6 14.Nxd6+ Bxd6 15.Qxd6 Qxd6 16.Rxd6 Ng4 17.*

Riccio (2615) - Gueci (2545)



1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4 Nc6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 g6 8.Nc3 Bg7 9.Be3 Nf6 10.f3 O-O 11.O-O a6 12.Qd3 Qc7 13.b3 Rfc8 14.*

Gueci (2545) - Riccio (2615)



1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.f3 Be6 9.Qd2 O-O 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.a3 Nb6 13.g5 Nh5 14.Na5 Rc8 15.Kb1 g6 16.h4 Ng3 17.Rh2 Nxf1 18.Rxf1 Na4 19.Nxa4 bxa4 20.Rd1 Qc7 21.h5 d5 22.exd5 Bxd5 23.hxg6 Be6 24.Rdh1 Bf5 25.gxh7+ Kh8 26.Qd5 Be6 27.Qb7 Qxb7 28.Nxb7 Rc7 29.Na5 Rb8 30.c4 Bxa3 31.g6 fxg6 32.Bg5 *

Riccio (2615) - Gueci (2545)



1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 a6 6.f3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Be3 Be7 9.Qd2 O-O 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4 13.Ne2 Ne8 14.f4 a5 15.f5 a4 16.fxe6 axb3 17.cxb3 fxe6 18.*