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

Overview


This season’s games were played between 13 October 2020 and 28 November 2020.

27 players participated, 8 (30%) of whom were new to the league.

74 games were played: White won 39 games (52.7%), 4 games (5.4%) were drawn, and Black won 31 games (41.9%). The season’s ‘unplayed pairing’ rate was 7.5%.

Final standings


1st place

arian13862007

Score: 6.5/7 (2229 perf)

2nd place

CoachJohn

Score: 6/7 (2111 perf)

3rd place

FlokiTheCat

Score: 5/7 (1930 perf)

Story of the season

Notable games

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

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
1/2-1/2
32
Sat 21 Nov 2020
1-0
51
Fri 30 Oct 2020
1-0
52
Fri 27 Nov 2020
1-0
66
Wed 18 Nov 2020
0-1
66
Wed 21 Oct 2020
0-1
67
Fri 27 Nov 2020
1-0
68
Sat 17 Oct 2020
1-0
71
Fri 27 Nov 2020
1-0
72
Tue 17 Nov 2020
1/2-1/2
73
Sun 15 Nov 2020
1-0
73
Tue 10 Nov 2020
1-0
73
Thu 15 Oct 2020

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

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
1-0
51
Fri 30 Oct 2020
1-0
52
Fri 27 Nov 2020
1-0
66
Wed 18 Nov 2020
0-1
66
Wed 21 Oct 2020
0-1
67
Fri 27 Nov 2020
1-0
68
Sat 17 Oct 2020
1-0
71
Fri 27 Nov 2020
1-0
72
Tue 17 Nov 2020
1-0
73
Tue 10 Nov 2020
1-0
73
Thu 15 Oct 2020

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

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Moves
1
Wed 11 Nov 2020
64
2
Wed 21 Oct 2020
62
3
Wed 11 Nov 2020
61
4
Thu 22 Oct 2020
60
5
Tue 13 Oct 2020
59
6
Wed 11 Nov 2020
57
6
Wed 4 Nov 2020
57
6
Sat 24 Oct 2020
57
7
Sun 22 Nov 2020
55
7
Fri 20 Nov 2020
55
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
Thu 22 Oct 2020
0h 57m 12s
2
Tue 13 Oct 2020
0h 56m 43s
3
Sat 24 Oct 2020
0h 56m 25s
4
Wed 11 Nov 2020
0h 55m 35s
5
Fri 20 Nov 2020
0h 54m 16s
6
Fri 23 Oct 2020
0h 52m 4s
7
Wed 11 Nov 2020
0h 51m 52s
8
Wed 4 Nov 2020
0h 51m 23s
9
Wed 21 Oct 2020
0h 51m 0s
10
Mon 9 Nov 2020
0h 50m 42s
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
arian13862007
​
Archbishop of Accuracy
Archbishop of Accuracy
Lowest ACPL in undecided positions after move 10
arian13862007
Achieved a season ACPL of 39.4
FlokiTheCat, Narf64
Giri Award
Giri Award
Most draws (> 1)
, Bole1981, Grizzzly1000
2 draws
​
Grischuk's Cousin
Grischuk's Cousin
Least time remaining after 10th move, and still winning
CoachJohn
Had 1m 32s left after 10 moves
arian13862007, CoachJohn
Houdini Award
Houdini Award
Biggest comebacks
JeremyIsFishing
Achieved 2 notable comeback wins/draws
prentice_sloth, Mixalaki2705
Intimate with Increment
Intimate with Increment
Highest percentage of moves played with < 1 min left
AACtrl
48.6%
Sincraxis, Sesquipedalism
Musing or Snoozing
Musing or Snoozing
Longest time spent on a move
CoachJohn
Spent 6m 5s
seius, HumanSponge
MVP Award
MVP Award
Best performance rating relative to initial rating
arian13862007
+6-0=1 perf 2234, initially 1820
JeremyIsFishing, CoachJohn
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
JeremyIsFishing
+4-3=0 perf 1736, initially 1449
IsaVulpes, gmat20020
Tarjan Award
Tarjan Award
Achieved the biggest upset
JeremyIsFishing
https://lichess.org/ah74kkor (rating gap: 334)
JeremyIsFishing, arian13862007
Tetrarch of Time
Tetrarch of Time
Spent the most clock time across the season
AACtrl
2h 39m 20s
JeremyIsFishing, IsaVulpes

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
arian13862007
7
6
1
0
1820
2234
414
2
JeremyIsFishing
7
4
0
3
1449
1736
287
3
CoachJohn
6
5
0
1
1952
2131
179
4
Grizzzly1000
7
3
2
2
1719
1775
56
5
mmgoo
7
3
0
4
1515
1566
51
6
IsaVulpes
7
3
1
3
1664
1698
34
7
gmat20020
7
3
0
4
1437
1460
23
8
eie24
6
4
1
1
1928
1945
17
9
HumanSponge
6
2
0
4
1440
1443
3

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
arian13862007
7
39.4
2
FlokiTheCat
7
43.0
3
Narf64
7
43.8
4
CoachJohn
6
47.8
5
Silkthewanderer
7
51.7
6
prentice_sloth
5
52.3
7
eie24
6
52.6
8
Grizzzly1000
7
53.7
9
IsaVulpes
7
54.5
10
Sesquipedalism
7
55.2
1–10 of 19 rows

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

Rank
Player
Games
Total time spent
1
AACtrl
7
2h 39m 20s
2
JeremyIsFishing
7
2h 38m 53s
3
IsaVulpes
7
2h 33m 38s
4
Narf64
7
2h 27m 8s
5
CoachJohn
6
2h 26m 13s
6
Bole1981
7
2h 24m 32s
7
Sesquipedalism
7
2h 17m 37s
8
eie24
6
2h 17m 36s
9
Grizzzly1000
7
2h 11m 12s
10
FlokiTheCat
7
2h 4m 38s

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

Rank
Player
Upset Margin
Link
1
JeremyIsFishing
334
2
JeremyIsFishing
186
3
arian13862007
146
4
JeremyIsFishing
136
5
gmat20020
130
6
arian13862007
122
6
arian13862007
122
7
mmgoo
107

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.↩︎