the tournaments on FICS will take place in February.
Regarding the prizefund on ICC (which is the commercial version of FICS and based on their code):
Regarding the prizefund on ICC (which is the commercial version of FICS and based on their code):
I was around in 1992
The majority of ICS code (which later become a commercial site) was written by Daniel Sleatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sleator
who later commercialized it in 1995 leading to big dispute.
Later ICC sued FICS for keep copying ICC new features (like "Seek" command, for example).
There is no comparison between ICC and FICS. ICC has thousands of active grandmasters and International masters and FICS does not.
Have you ever been a paying member on ICC?
I play on FICS since mid 90ies and were playing on the ICC also for over 10 years, but in the end FICS has everything I need and I don't pay anymore for ICC. the big difference for promotion is, that FICS is free for everyone.
But a tournament on ICC also is a good idea.
I used to play a lot at FICS, but recently kind of got tired of chess in general... When these two tournaments at FICS will take place, is it already known?