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

Overview


This season’s games were played between 26 March 2019 and 12 May 2019.

26 players participated, 14 (54%) of whom were new to the league.

69 games were played: White won 39 games (56.5%), 3 games (4.3%) were drawn, and Black won 27 games (39.1%). The season’s ‘unplayed pairing’ rate was 13.8%.

Final standings


1st place

Vetinari_Computer

Score: 6.5/7 (2253 perf)

2nd place

Somethingpretentious

Score: 6/7 (2166 perf)

3rd place

Grzybozbur

Score: 5/7 (1941 perf)

Story of the season

Notable games

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

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
0-1
66
Thu 25 Apr 2019
0-1
68
Fri 3 May 2019
1-0
70
Wed 1 May 2019
1-0
75
Fri 5 Apr 2019
1/2-1/2
79
Fri 26 Apr 2019
1-0
82
Mon 6 May 2019
0-1
87
Sun 28 Apr 2019
0-1
87
Sun 28 Apr 2019
1-0
87
Mon 15 Apr 2019

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

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
0-1
66
Thu 25 Apr 2019
0-1
68
Fri 3 May 2019
1-0
70
Wed 1 May 2019
1-0
75
Fri 5 Apr 2019
1-0
82
Mon 6 May 2019
0-1
87
Sun 28 Apr 2019
0-1
87
Sun 28 Apr 2019
1-0
87
Mon 15 Apr 2019

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

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Moves
1
Thu 9 May 2019
70
2
Wed 27 Mar 2019
60
3
Wed 1 May 2019
59
4
Fri 26 Apr 2019
57
5
Fri 3 May 2019
56
6
Thu 11 Apr 2019
55
6
Wed 3 Apr 2019
55
7
Tue 26 Mar 2019
52

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

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Total time
1
Wed 1 May 2019
0h 48m 21s
2
Thu 9 May 2019
0h 47m 49s
3
Fri 26 Apr 2019
0h 46m 34s
4
Tue 26 Mar 2019
0h 45m 31s
5
Wed 1 May 2019
0h 44m 5s
6
Fri 10 May 2019
0h 43m 34s
7
Sun 14 Apr 2019
0h 43m 21s
8
Fri 19 Apr 2019
0h 41m 43s
9
Wed 8 May 2019
0h 41m 31s
10
Sat 11 May 2019
0h 40m 53s

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
Vetinari_Computer
Archbishop of Accuracy
Archbishop of Accuracy
Lowest ACPL in undecided positions after move 10
somethingpretentious
Achieved a season ACPL of 38.3
Mixalaki2705, krxou
Giri Award
Giri Award
Most draws (> 1)
2 draws
Grischuk's Cousin
Grischuk's Cousin
Least time remaining after 10th move, and still winning
Grzybozbur
Had 2m 36s left after 10 moves
Grizzzly1000, krxou
Houdini Award
Houdini Award
Biggest comebacks
Vetinari_Computer
Achieved 4 notable comeback wins/draws
asian42, kostasvl
Intimate with Increment
Intimate with Increment
Highest percentage of moves played with < 1 min left
Grizzzly1000
53.7%
krxou, f1nn33
Musing or Snoozing
Musing or Snoozing
Longest time spent on a move
f1nn33
Spent 6m 37s
seius, Grzybozbur
MVP Award
MVP Award
Best performance rating relative to initial rating
seius
+4-3=0 perf 1628, initially 1301
Grzybozbur, halloway
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
Grzybozbur
+5-2=0 perf 1785, initially 1500
Forhavu, Grizzzly1000
Tarjan Award
Tarjan Award
Achieved the biggest upset
seius
https://lichess.org/nr3VinJ4 (rating gap: 414)
sgis, seius
Tetrarch of Time
Tetrarch of Time
Spent the most clock time across the season
Grizzzly1000
2h 30m 30s
Grzybozbur, f1nn33

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
seius
7
4
0
3
1301
1628
327
2
Grzybozbur
7
5
0
2
1500
1785
285
3
halloway
6
4
0
2
1488
1733
245
4
sgis
7
3
1
3
1436
1628
192
5
Forhavu
6
3
1
2
1475
1638
163
6
somethingpretentious
7
6
0
1
1927
2073
146
7
Vetinari_Computer
7
6
1
0
1938
2082
144
8
Grizzzly1000
7
4
0
3
1500
1621
121
9
Isachess
7
4
0
3
1644
1703
59
10
kostasvl
6
3
0
3
1584
1601
17
1–10 of 12 rows

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
somethingpretentious
7
38.3
2
Mixalaki2705
5
38.7
3
krxou
6
51.1
4
Forhavu
6
56.0
5
f1nn33
7
57.2
6
halloway
6
57.6
7
H0tblackDesiat0
6
57.6
8
Grizzzly1000
7
58.1
9
seius
7
59.2
10
Grzybozbur
7
59.6
1–10 of 18 rows

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

Rank
Player
Games
Total time spent
1
Grizzzly1000
7
2h 30m 30s
2
Grzybozbur
7
2h 16m 11s
3
f1nn33
7
2h 15m 42s
4
sgis
7
1h 55m 50s
5
darubaru
6
1h 52m 51s
6
krxou
6
1h 46m 38s
7
H0tblackDesiat0
6
1h 40m 53s
8
seius
7
1h 36m 35s
9
Isachess
7
1h 34m 51s
10
Vetinari_Computer
7
1h 34m 27s

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.↩︎