• Overview
  • Final standings
    • How the title race played out
    • Awards
    • Stats
    • About
  • Notable games
  • Awards
  • Stats
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Overview


This season’s games were played between 21 May 2024 and 6 July 2024.

26 players participated, 6 (23%) of whom were new to the league.

76 games were played: White won 34 games (44.7%), 4 games (5.3%) were drawn, and Black won 38 games (50%). The season’s ‘unplayed pairing’ rate was 5%.

Final standings


1st place

MoistvonLipwig

6/7 (2267 perf)

2nd place

sterpfi

5.5/7 (2146 perf)


3rd place

RSInternecio

5.5/7 (2059 perf)

Best U1600

Igoka60

4.5/7 (1810 perf)



How the title race played out

1 10 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 Round Rank before round moistvonlipwig sterpfi rsinternecio chatakkuma igoka60

Notable games

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

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
1/2-1/2
29
Fri 7 Jun 2024
1-0
37
Sat 22 Jun 2024
1-0
45
Wed 26 Jun 2024
0-1
49
Tue 11 Jun 2024
1-0
51
Sat 15 Jun 2024
1-0
54
Sat 22 Jun 2024
0-1
58
Thu 13 Jun 2024
0-1
60
Sat 1 Jun 2024

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

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
1-0
37
Sat 22 Jun 2024
1-0
45
Wed 26 Jun 2024
0-1
49
Tue 11 Jun 2024
1-0
51
Sat 15 Jun 2024
1-0
54
Sat 22 Jun 2024
0-1
58
Thu 13 Jun 2024
0-1
60
Sat 1 Jun 2024
0-1
61
Thu 20 Jun 2024

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

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Moves
1
Fri 7 Jun 2024
92
2
Wed 12 Jun 2024
61
2
Wed 12 Jun 2024
61
2
Thu 23 May 2024
61
5
Sun 9 Jun 2024
58
8
Wed 3 Jul 2024
57
9
Sat 29 Jun 2024
55
1–10 of 17 rows

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

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Total time
1
Fri 7 Jun 2024
1h 29m 15s
2
Thu 23 May 2024
1h 17m 4s
3
Sun 9 Jun 2024
1h 15m 51s
4
Sat 29 Jun 2024
1h 13m 48s
5
Thu 6 Jun 2024
1h 13m 31s
6
Wed 3 Jul 2024
1h 12m 6s
7
Sun 9 Jun 2024
1h 9m 34s
8
Tue 25 Jun 2024
1h 9m 30s
9
Sat 1 Jun 2024
1h 8m 49s
10
Sat 15 Jun 2024
1h 7m 55s
1–10 of 17 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
sterpfi
Achieved a season ACPL of 22.5
MoistvonLipwig, Tellerwascher
Giri Award
Giri Award
Most draws (> 1)
2 draws
Grischuk's Cousin
Grischuk's Cousin
Least time remaining after 10th move, and still winning
AACtrl
Had 6m 10s left after 10 moves
Alvaro64, Zubenelgenubi
Houdini Award
Houdini Award
Biggest comebacks
HeartOfStone
Achieved 3 notable comeback wins/draws
Forhavu, FunnyLikeAClown
Intimate with Increment
Intimate with Increment
Highest percentage of moves played with < 1 min left
Alvaro64
20.5%
AACtrl, doteps
MVP Award
MVP Award
Best performance rating relative to initial rating
j3084
+3-3=0 perf 1874, initially 1471
wasileios, JMHWSM
Marathon Mover
Marathon Mover
Most moves played
Tellerwascher
297 moves
sterpfi, FunnyLikeAClown
Musing or Snoozing
Musing or Snoozing
Longest time spent on a move
wasileios
Spent 7m 59s
Tellerwascher, Forhavu
Need for Speed
Need for Speed
Most wins/draws while gaining clock time
NA time-gaining games
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
j3084
+3-3=0 perf 1874, initially 1471
Alvaro64, pdesaiii
Tarjan Award
Tarjan Award
Achieved the biggest upset
JMHWSM
https://lichess.org/R6dYG5Np (rating gap: 509)
j3084, FunnyLikeAClown
Tetrarch of Time
Tetrarch of Time
Spent the most clock time across the season
RSInternecio
3h 30m 54s
Tellerwascher, FunnyLikeAClown

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
j3084
6
3
0
3
1471
1874
403
2
wasileios
7
4
0
3
1534
1828
294
3
JMHWSM
6
3
0
3
1521
1803
282
4
Igoka60
7
4
1
2
1574
1831
257
5
Zubenelgenubi
6
2
1
3
1584
1785
201
6
MoistvonLipwig
7
6
0
1
2166
2277
111
7
chatakkuma
5
4
0
1
1975
2059
84
8
sterpfi
7
5
1
1
2078
2148
70
9
Alvaro64
6
3
1
2
1934
1946
12
10
pdesaiii
6
1
0
5
1396
1400
4

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
sterpfi
7
22.5
2
MoistvonLipwig
7
25.7
3
Tellerwascher
7
30.5
4
chatakkuma
5
32.4
5
RSInternecio
7
36.3
6
FunnyLikeAClown
7
42.6
7
Igoka60
7
45.3
8
Alvaro64
6
46.8
9
Zubenelgenubi
6
47.2
10
wasileios
7
48.4
1–10 of 20 rows

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

Rank
Player
Games
Total time spent
1
RSInternecio
7
3h 30m 54s
2
Tellerwascher
7
3h 23m 5s
3
FunnyLikeAClown
7
3h 8m 46s
4
Alvaro64
6
3h 7m 0s
5
AACtrl
7
3h 4m 57s
6
HeartOfStone
6
2h 59m 57s
7
MoistvonLipwig
7
2h 47m 5s
8
sterpfi
7
2h 37m 51s
9
root2
7
2h 28m 45s
10
JMHWSM
6
2h 22m 50s

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


About

  • This report was compiled on 08 December 2024.
  • 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.
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  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.↩︎