Welcome to the FICS Games Database, the world's largest chess database. It provides the games played and relayed on the Free Internet Chess Server. You can retrieve and download the games from this website in real time after they are finished. When you are logged on to FICS you can also access this database via GameBot.

Searching

If you leave the names of both the white and the black player blank you will get a real time history of the most recent games finished on FICS, either for all variants or the variant you are interested in. All dates and times are server times (PDT/PST). For fast and efficient retrieval of the games you are looking for check the search hints

Data

GameBot started collecting all rated and unrated games played on FICS in October 2008 (except bughouse games and games played by guests which get counted but not stored. You can find bughouse games at the Bughouse database). woof contributed rated lightning games played between human players since March 2005. marcelk contributed rated chess games (blitz, lightning standard) played since November 1999.

GameBot and the FICS Games Database is a joint project of seberg and Ludens. We are indebted to MAd for his great help and for providing a lot of his code. knighttour is generously providing the hosting of the frontend. Thank you to woof and marcelk for providing their game collections.

Contact

If you have questions or suggestions (eg for additional statistics or search options) please contact seberg or Ludens at FICS or just drop us an email to info@ficsgames.com

Enjoy!