Chess960 League Season 31
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
How the title race played out
Notable games
Most accurate (incl. draws)
The 10 games with the lowest combined ACPL, including draws.
Most accurate (excl. draws)
The 10 games with the lowest combined ACPL, excluding draws.
Most moves
All games ranked at or above the 60th percentile by number of moves played.
Most time taken
All games ranked at or above the 60th percentile by total clock time elapsed.1
Awards
Assorted awards to celebrate the season - see the footnote for more details.2
Stats
Best relative performances
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.
Lowest ACPL
All players who played at least five games and achieved a season ACPL in the 20th percentile or below.
Time spent
The 10 players who spent the most clock time over the season.
Biggest upsets
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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Clock time is the sum of both players’ move times from move 2 onwards.↩︎
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.↩︎
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.↩︎
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.↩︎
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.↩︎