To show the number of players in the club, their activity, you can find some statistical values here:
Type
Value
Number of active players:
365
Number of running games:
801
Number of moves yesterday:
512
All incoming email messages:
1924231
All outgoing email messages:
2955743
A player becomes inactive if he/she is not playing in any game, does not have a pairing request, and sent his/her last message to the server more than 100 days ago. At this point he/she is temporarily removed from the players list, inactive players do not count into the above value.
Running games are those which have both players, have already started, but still didn't finish, so which are currently in progress.
Yesturday's moves are those which were taken from yesturday 00:00 until today 00:00 GMT.
All incoming messages are those, which were sent by the club members to the server from somewhere the beginning of 2002.
Outgoing messages were sent by the server to the players, also from around the beginning of 2002.
If you like to play chess, playing many games simultaneously, if you like to think your moves when you have time, and it doesn't bother you if your games last several weeks, then you are welcome to join
the club.
And here you can find some rather interesting than important statistics about pieces' activity in all the games since Jan 17, 2003:
Piece
Moves
%
Captures
%
Captured
%
King:
138038
10
11581
4
-
-
Queen:
173009
12
50555
16
22452
7
Rook:
187628
13
45618
14
31433
10
Knight:
277609
19
61390
19
64249
20
Bishop:
234423
16
62938
19
57845
18
Pawn:
425572
30
92123
28
148226
45
Summarized:
1436279
100
324205
100
324205
100
The data on this page are refreshed once each day, last on 2008.09.08, 00:00 CET.
About 800 years after the birth of Christ, chess was well known in the Arabic World. Al-Adli was the greatest known player of that age until 847. He was the closest friend of the caliph, a poet, and a minister-like official.
The game was a bit different than the modern chess we know. The initial setup was the same, as well as the king, the knight and the rook. The queen was the weakest piece because it could move one square and in diagonals only. Bishop moved in diagonals, but only two sqares, and could jump over pieces, didn't attack and didn't defend the nearest four squares. Pawns could move one step only and there was neider castling.
Players can use more email addresses in the club.
They can use one on the afternoon at home, and another one in work hours in the office.
We can add new email addresses to our profile or can delete any of them from it.
If our email address is changing, first we will add the new one, then delete the old one. Simple isn't it?
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