About

We organize Slow and Rapid Online 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. You may also email tds@snailbucket.org - or 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.