About Wildchess.org / ChessDatabase.org
History
The wildchess project started somewhere around February 2006 by siggemannen on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). He wanted to make a site where people could access atomic games played on FICS, browse and search through them. Together with kardolus he started wildchess.org, with the main idea to help new players as well as experienced players to develop their skills. One led to another and they added several variants besides Atomic, like Suicide, Crazyhouse and Chess.
The site grew larger and now holds over 150.000 high quality games played on internet servers and Grandmaster games played on the board.
In 2008 correspondence servers SchemingMind and BrainKing gave us access to their PGN archives.
Currently we are experimenting with the same database at ChessDatabase.org
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Future
So, what does the future holds for wildchess.org? Improvement and listening to it's users are main goals. Wildchess will improve its functionality and hopefully become more user-friendly and more well-known.
Wildchess.org will remain free of charge and also ad free, simply because free is better. Thats why we experiment with ads only on ChessDatabase.org
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Technical Information
The games at this website get auto-updated because we have a bot running at FICS that stores games with a certain rating limit. The bot we run is called Wildchess(TD) and the ratinglimits are 1900 for Losers and Wild, 2000 for Suicide and Standard Chess and 2100 for Crazyhouse. Games get stored when both players have a rating that exceeds this limit. Next to the games from FICS we also upload games ourselves. These are mostly games with a certain interesting opening or games from famous Grandmasters.
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