About

We organize Slow and Rapid Time Control Chess Tournaments on FICS. The membership is free. If you are new here, these would be the next steps:

• Learn how Snailbucket works.
• Create your account.
• Sign up to the next open tournament.

Contact

For a few help articles we have written, see here.

We assume that most of you have an account on FICS already (which you'll need to play in our tournaments anyway). Send an FICS message to

• pchesso for general questions about Snail Bucket, our tournaments, and these wiki pages.
• Bodia for questions about the programming of this website, and Snailbot.

Snailbucket was founded in 2014; we'd like to thank a lot of people. We're bringing this website back in 2024, after a nine year hiatus. Please be patient with us, some technical aspects may need a bit time to readjust.