• Overview
  • Final standings
    • Story of the season
  • Notable games
  • Awards 🏆
  • Stats 📚
  • About

Overview


This season’s games were played between 11 June 2018 and 29 July 2018.

27 players participated, 27 (100%) of whom were new to the league.

75 games were played: White won 31 games (41.9%), 6 games (8.1%) were drawn, and Black won 38 games (51.4%). The season’s ‘unplayed pairing’ rate was 9.6%.

Final standings


1st place

Assassin_in_White

Score: 5.5/7 (2256 perf)

2nd place

Scrooge

Score: 5.5/7 (2281 perf)

3rd place

Vetinari_Computer

Score: 5.5/7 (2211 perf)

Story of the season

Notable games

The 10 games with the lowest combined ACPL, including draws.

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
1-0
54
Thu 21 Jun 2018
0-1
56
Sat 28 Jul 2018
1-0
70
Thu 12 Jul 2018
1-0
71
Wed 25 Jul 2018
0-1
73
Tue 19 Jun 2018
0-1
78
Sun 8 Jul 2018
1/2-1/2
79
Fri 15 Jun 2018
1/2-1/2
80
Fri 27 Jul 2018
0-1
82
Tue 10 Jul 2018
0-1
83
Sat 30 Jun 2018

The 10 games with the lowest combined ACPL, excluding draws.

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
1-0
54
Thu 21 Jun 2018
0-1
56
Sat 28 Jul 2018
1-0
70
Thu 12 Jul 2018
1-0
71
Wed 25 Jul 2018
0-1
73
Tue 19 Jun 2018
0-1
78
Sun 8 Jul 2018
0-1
82
Tue 10 Jul 2018
0-1
83
Sat 30 Jun 2018
0-1
84
Sun 24 Jun 2018
1-0
85
Sat 16 Jun 2018

All games ranked at or above the 60th percentile by number of moves played.

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Moves
1
Fri 27 Jul 2018
66
2
Sun 22 Jul 2018
65
2
Mon 16 Jul 2018
65
3
Sun 8 Jul 2018
64
4
Thu 21 Jun 2018
63
5
Sun 1 Jul 2018
62
6
Fri 27 Jul 2018
55
6
Sun 24 Jun 2018
55
6
Thu 21 Jun 2018
55
7
Sat 23 Jun 2018
54
1–10 of 15 rows

All games ranked at or above the 60th percentile by total clock time elapsed.1

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Total time
1
Mon 16 Jul 2018
0h 49m 50s
2
Sun 22 Jul 2018
0h 49m 9s
3
Sun 8 Jul 2018
0h 48m 57s
4
Sun 1 Jul 2018
0h 48m 16s
5
Sun 24 Jun 2018
0h 46m 14s
6
Mon 2 Jul 2018
0h 45m 11s
7
Tue 19 Jun 2018
0h 44m 47s
8
Sat 23 Jun 2018
0h 44m 25s
9
Fri 27 Jul 2018
0h 43m 30s
10
Sun 17 Jun 2018
0h 43m 8s
1–10 of 15 rows

Awards 🏆

Assorted awards to celebrate the season - see the footnote for more details.2

Award
Name / Description
Winner(s)
Runner(s)-up
Aces
Aces
Scored +6 or better
No eligible players
​
Archbishop of Accuracy
Archbishop of Accuracy
Lowest ACPL in undecided positions after move 10
Scrooge
Achieved a season ACPL of 38.4
Assassin_in_White, Wolf21
Giri Award
Giri Award
Most draws (> 1)
, somethingpretentious
2 draws
​
Grischuk's Cousin
Grischuk's Cousin
Least time remaining after 10th move, and still winning
PublicRadio
Had 4m 56s left after 10 moves
hicetnunc, RodrigoDiazdeVivar
Houdini Award
Houdini Award
Biggest comebacks
DAAL
Achieved 3 notable comeback wins/draws
Assassin_in_White, colwem
Intimate with Increment
Intimate with Increment
Highest percentage of moves played with < 1 min left
Assassin_in_White
34.1%
PublicRadio, RodrigoDiazdeVivar
Musing or Snoozing
Musing or Snoozing
Longest time spent on a move
Scrooge
Spent 6m 40s
glbert, FischyVishy
MVP Award
MVP Award
Best performance rating relative to initial rating
DAAL
+3-3=0 perf 1494, initially 1303
roso97, Wolf21
Primates of Precision
Primates of Precision
Most games < 10 ACPL
No eligible players
​
Rookie Award
Rookie Award
Best relative perf. by a new league player
akselm
+3-1=0 perf 1754, initially 1431
DAAL, roso97
Tarjan Award
Tarjan Award
Achieved the biggest upset
Lkamal99
https://lichess.org/kP6Wmrq6 (rating gap: 331)
DAAL, DAAL
Tetrarch of Time
Tetrarch of Time
Spent the most clock time across the season
sgis
2h 9m 59s
glbert, RodrigoDiazdeVivar

Stats 📚

This table shows players’ relative performance ratings – that is, their performance rating over the season minus their initial rating before their first game.3 Includes everyone with a positive relative performance rating over at least five games.

#
Player
Games
W
D
L
Initial
Perf
Diff.
1
DAAL
6
3
0
3
1303
1494
191
2
roso97
5
3
0
2
1547
1737
190
3
Wolf21
5
2
1
2
1607
1777
170
4
Vetinari_Computer
7
5
1
1
1887
2053
166
5
glbert
7
4
0
3
1585
1717
132
6
Scrooge
6
4
1
1
2002
2112
110
7
kjfoster17
7
4
0
3
1488
1564
76
8
lakinwecker
5
1
0
4
1270
1329
59
9
hicetnunc
7
4
1
2
1707
1757
50

All players who played at least five games and achieved a season ACPL in the 20th percentile or below.

Rank
Player
Games
Season ACPL
1
Scrooge
6
38.4
2
Assassin_in_White
7
40.2
3
Wolf21
5
40.7
4
Vetinari_Computer
7
46.5
5
kjfoster17
7
51.9
6
colwem
6
57.8
7
hicetnunc
6
58.3
8
FischyVishy
7
62.6
9
BranzaDubla
6
62.9
10
RodrigoDiazdeVivar
7
63.3
1–10 of 19 rows

The 10 players who spent the most clock time over the season.

Rank
Player
Games
Total time spent
1
sgis
7
2h 9m 59s
2
glbert
7
2h 8m 3s
3
RodrigoDiazdeVivar
7
2h 0m 51s
4
Assassin_in_White
7
1h 52m 21s
5
DAAL
6
1h 51m 28s
6
hicetnunc
6
1h 50m 32s
7
kostasvl
6
1h 47m 27s
8
benlonnqvist
6
1h 47m 24s
9
colwem
6
1h 37m 40s
10
kjfoster17
7
1h 34m 3s

Everyone who defeated an opponent who outrated them by at least 100 points.

About

  • This report was compiled on 30 December 2021.
  • These statistics are presented for general interest only. They are not guaranteed to be comprehensive, complete4, accurate, or up to date. They may be periodically revised to incorporate updates and bugfixes.
  • Any player determined by Lichess to have violated their Terms of Service when this report was compiled should not appear in the detailed statistics.5
  • Homepage / source code
  • Acknowledgements: Noun Project for the award icons; Simon Ilincev for chess_graph, which produces the openings sunburst plots.

  1. Clock time is the sum of both players’ move times from move 2 onwards.↩︎

  2. Aces: all players who achieved a plus/minus score - wins minus losses - of +6 or better over the season. Archbishop of Accuracy: the player with the lowest average centipawn loss (ACPL) over the season, accounting for moves played. For the Chess960 league stats, these calculations are based on Lichess game analysis figures, which are in turn sourced from Lichess server analysis. Players must play at least five games in the season to qualify. Giri Award: named for Anish Giri. Grischuk’s Cousin: named for Alexander Grischuk. Houdini Award: the player with the most comeback “points” over the season - players earn 1 point for winning a game after being in a position with an evaluation worse than -6, 0.7 points for winning after being worse than -3, 0.5 points for drawing after being worse than -6, and 0.3 points for drawing after being worse than -3. MVP Award: players must play at least five games to qualify, and perf. ratings are calculated using FIDE’s method. Primates of Precision: based on Lichess game analysis ACPLs. Rookie Award: to be eligible, players must have played at least four games in the season and not have played in any previous 960 league season. Tarjan Award: named for James Tarjan, who famously defeated Vladimir Kramnik in 2017. Other: all other awards should be self-explanatory.↩︎

  3. The season performance ratings presented in this report may differ slightly from ratings published on the Lichess4545 website, but both calculations are based on FIDE’s preferred method, and both exclude unplayed games such as forfeit wins/losses and scheduling draws.↩︎

  4. For example, this report excludes from its analysis all games of less than 5 plies (half-moves), games that ended in a disconnection or by “cheat detected”, games that were aborted, and games that started from a custom position.↩︎

  5. However, players who were banned from the Lichess4545 leagues after finishing a season in the top three places are still shown with a podium place in that season’s report.↩︎