# About free internet chess server

This is really free bughouse internet chess server. All are welcome to play and test lightning, blitz chess, crazyhouse and bughouse! Whole family can play from single PC, students from same room. Or anybody from any place! Actually stable third beta version. Time controls N minutes for game and also B seconds for move (bronstein) are supported. We hope soon here could be best bughouse chess actions. We do what we can to have really open source project working. We play not for rating, but for moves, games and tourneys ! But rating system here is supported also, its part of fun. And rating for bughouse chess is improved based on last years experiece. We focusing on team and tournament rating, to better describe level of player's skills. We plan organize here periodic online tournaments opened to all players without limitations of skills, rating, or whatever.

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# Calendary of Events

## Join our chess server - its for free !

Date : | Event :
Cl ub | Bughouse Chess Earth Club, Euro Club, US Club Server is online always. But the time we meet online as in real earth club will be in SATURDAY 18:30 UTC (+- 2 hours). Its good time to meet most of players here and play or organize tourneys. The Euro Club and US Club day to meet during weeks will be determined.
25 01 | Saturday's Individual Bughouse Tourneys When: every odd SATURDAY in 19:00 UTC starting 11th January 2014. For details and results see http://wir.wz.cz/bug
18 01 | Saturday's Team Bughouse Tourneys When: every even SATURDAY in 19:00 UTC starting 18th January 2014. For details and results see http://wir.wz.cz/bug
20 01 | Crazyhouse League See zh forum.
10 01 | BUGHOUSE WARS CAN START! Team rating released. We have stable second beta version. Bughouse team rating feature released, so now You can see real performance with various partners. Best teams with RD under 80 are listed in top list. And best team each player is in is listed in his finger notes. Try commands best B and fi Matejus Wir or who bt for example.
?? 01 | Tournaments in both F1 and slower bughouse Come here and play with us. Here will be tournaments in both fastest and slower bughouse. For fastest will be used time control 2 minutes per game. For slower bughouse Czech Open 2014 time control 2s for move (bronstein) with 2 minutes reserve. Date/Time will be determined yet.
04 01 | Czech Open League In club day we realized tourney to be part of preparation for Czech Open 2014 (time control 2s for move (bronstein) with 2 minutes reserve). Total winner of day: Matejus. We were all on skype so was a real fun like to be OTB almost :)
04 01 | Thanks to alpha testers the bugs were caught. Beta released! Thanks to all testers. Especially Chesschocolate, Ravigori, Guiltyking. We cought seems all critical the bugs in old core of lasker server. We removed it. If there some bugs yet we have to catch it! We running first beta version now! We continue testing ... (So far here 1 important bug known: in bughouse chess in Raptor Pawn drop is resolved like Pawn move. But it will be repaired soon we hope.)
01 01 | We welcome all to be testers ! This month we testing, but it cannot stop us organizing tournaments. Follow us, we give You know!
30 12 | Tournament in simul slower bughouse chess for alpha testers Tourney bronstein bughouse chess simul (players could play on both boards having like 2s for move, what for simuling on both boards means like 3s for move) started 19:30 UTC 30.12 2013. Because on AlexBug.Com players can create also second account to play rated simul (like MatejusSim or RFranciscoII), we could see finale match betwen RFrancisco and Matejus. Qualification was played like 3s for move with 2 minutes reserve and finale finalists agreed play faster with 2s for move (and 3 minutes reserve). RFrancisco won the final match for 10 games and became winner in this special discipline. Congrats!
21 12 | 21.12. 2013 Alpha version of server runs! BICS alive again! After many years, core of server (time/flag solution) has been rewriten. Bughouse (also bronstein) Internet Chess Server reborn. Join us, help us testing or just play with us. Fast or slower bughouse, all on one server.

# Services & Server : Are Free

You can play here a lot of games for free. You can play as guest also, but best is easy register here. Password You can change using command password oldpassword newpassword. If You have some nick on FICS already, its reserved for You here also and for nobody else!

As interface to connect to our server You can use Thief or Winboard/Xboard interface. Also You can use multiplatform Raptor interface. If You are new, follow tutorial in pictures how to create new connection to ICS. If You wish play bughouse chess actually Thief is recommended now or winboard. We solving some issues for other interfaces. Actually Raptors bugs was found and solved, now in testing and soon released as Beta4!

# ComUnity

We are here to play and having fun. Remember it!
Behave like nice friendly person even if You hate losing games :)

We are on facebook also.

A lot about bughouse chess You can find also bughousechess.wz.cz.

# Contacts