About

Snail Bucket is a platform for Slow Time Control Chess Tournaments on FICS, mainly created to fill gaps between Teamleague editions. We're also offering monthly tournaments alongside Teamleague.

Joining

The membership is free. FICS users are welcome

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.