• Overview
  • Final standings
    • How the title race played out
    • Best scorers
  • Stats - overview
  • Stats - by board/rating
  • Openings
  • Openings sunburst
  • Awards
  • Stats - tables
    • Best performances / highest accuracy
    • Time spent / strongest opponents
    • Comebacks and upsets
    • Dawdlers and instant movers
    • Long thinks, lucky escapes, time trouble/travel, most moves
  • About

Overview


This season’s games were played between 23 April 2024 and 7 July 2024.

85 players participated, 29 (34%) of whom were new to the league.

In all, 277 games were played over the season. The season’s ‘unplayed pairing’ rate was 8.3%.1

White won 128 games (45.9%), 30 games (10.8%) were drawn, and Black won 119 games (42.7%). The right-hand chart shows game results by colour for each board or average rating band.2


46% 36% 55% 100% 11% 11% 44% 53% 1000-1200 1200-1400 1400-1600 1600-1800 1-0 1/2-1/2 0-1

Final standings


1st place

BrigBirk

9/11 (1957 perf)

2nd place

wmakos

8/11 (1904 perf)


3rd place

dodochesso

8/11 (1802 perf)

Best U1600

dodochesso

8/11 (1802 perf)


How the title race played out

1 10 20 30 40 50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Round Rank before round brigbirk wmakos dodochesso t_taylor caiodias

Best scorers

Here’s everyone who achieved a plus score of +5 or higher this season3:

BrigBirk (8.5/10), dodochesso (8/11), ekopp2000 (6.5/8), t_taylor (6.5/8), wmakos (7/9)

Players with plus scores of +6 or better get the Ace award.

Stats - overview

39 66 69 49 37 16 3 0 20 40 60 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Day Games 38% played on weekend Sun Sat Fri Thu Wed Tue Mon 0 5 10 15 20 Hour (UTC) Day # games 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 12.5

0 20 40 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 # moves Games Average moves/game: 40.2 0 20 40 60 0 30 60 90 120 Minutes Games Average time taken/game: 69.3 minutes

Includes games ranked at or above the 90th percentile by number of moves.

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Moves
1
Mon 6 May 2024
104
2
Sat 4 May 2024
95
3
Fri 3 May 2024
92
4
Sun 28 Apr 2024
84
5
Wed 15 May 2024
82
6
Thu 27 Jun 2024
80
6
Sun 23 Jun 2024
80
8
Fri 14 Jun 2024
75
8
Fri 14 Jun 2024
75
8
Sat 1 Jun 2024
75
1–10 of 22 rows

Includes games ranked at or above the 90th percentile by total clock time.4

Rank
Players / Link
Date
Total time
1
Sat 4 May 2024
2h 15m 57s
2
Fri 24 May 2024
2h 6m 50s
3
Fri 24 May 2024
2h 2m 2s
4
Wed 15 May 2024
2h 0m 3s
5
Fri 14 Jun 2024
1h 59m 27s
5
Fri 14 Jun 2024
1h 59m 27s
7
Thu 30 May 2024
1h 58m 32s
8
Fri 26 Apr 2024
1h 56m 8s
9
Mon 6 May 2024
1h 53m 37s
10
Sun 28 Apr 2024
1h 52m 55s
1–10 of 22 rows

Stats - by board/rating

40 42 43 61 53 1000-1200 (11) 1200-1400 (18) 1400-1600 (151) 1600-1800 (370) 1800-2000 (8) 0 20 40 60 ACPL ACPL by rating band 5% 5% 5% 8% 6% 1000-1200 (11) 1200-1400 (18) 1400-1600 (151) 1600-1800 (370) 1800-2000 (8) 0 2 4 6 8 Blunder rate (%) Blunder rate by rating band

The games with the lowest combined ACPL (including draws).

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
0-1
24
Wed 19 Jun 2024
1-0
28
Sat 27 Apr 2024
0-1
29
Sat 22 Jun 2024
0-1
29
Thu 23 May 2024
1/2-1/2
30
Sun 28 Apr 2024
1-0
33
Thu 2 May 2024
1/2-1/2
34
Sat 27 Apr 2024
0-1
35
Fri 17 May 2024
1/2-1/2
35
Sat 11 May 2024
1-0
36
Fri 17 May 2024

The decisive games with the lowest combined ACPL.

Players / Link
Result
Sum ACPL
Date
0-1
24
Wed 19 Jun 2024
1-0
28
Sat 27 Apr 2024
0-1
29
Sat 22 Jun 2024
0-1
29
Thu 23 May 2024
1-0
33
Thu 2 May 2024
0-1
35
Fri 17 May 2024
1-0
36
Fri 17 May 2024
1-0
39
Wed 5 Jun 2024
1-0
41
Sat 27 Apr 2024
1-0
41
Thu 25 Apr 2024

Openings

The frequency of first move pairs by board (4545) or average rating band (LoneWolf).

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1000-1200 1200-1400 1400-1600 1600-1800 Avg rating band Proportion of games First moves e4 e5 e4 c5 e4 c6 e4 e6 e4 d5 e4 Nf6 d4 d5 d4 Nf6 d4 e6 d4 d6 d4 f5 Nf3 d5 Nf3 Nf6 c4 c5 c4 Nf6 c4 e5 c4 c6 NA

All openings played in the season, excluding variations.

#
Opening
G
%
1-0
½-½
0-1
Eval
Rating
1
Caro-Kann Defense
46
33
26
13
61
0.5
1627
2
Sicilian Defense
37
65
59
11
30
0.6
1611
3
French Defense
35
47
43
9
49
0.4
1660
4
Queen's Pawn Game
22
57
55
5
41
0.1
1611
5
English Opening
13
19
15
8
77
0.2
1574
6
Italian Game
12
50
50
0
50
0.3
1673
6
Queen's Gambit Declined
12
58
58
0
42
0.4
1676
8
King's Indian Defense
10
55
50
10
40
0.4
1674
9
Ruy Lopez
9
72
67
11
22
0.4
1565
10
Modern Defense
8
63
63
0
38
0.4
1668
1–10 of 38 rows

White’s top-scoring openings, excluding variations. Minimum 10 games played.

#
Opening
G
%
1-0
½-½
0-1
Eval
Rating
1
Sicilian Defense
37
65
59
11
30
0.6
1611
2
Queen's Gambit Declined
12
58
58
0
42
0.4
1676
3
Queen's Pawn Game
22
57
55
5
41
0.1
1611
4
Italian Game
12
50
50
0
50
0.3
1673
5
French Defense
35
47
43
9
49
0.4
1660
6
Caro-Kann Defense
46
33
26
13
61
0.5
1627
7
English Opening
13
19
15
8
77
0.2
1574

Black’s top-scoring openings, excluding variations. Minimum 10 games played.

#
Opening
G
%
0-1
½-½
1-0
Eval
Rating
1
English Opening
13
81
77
8
15
0.2
1574
2
Caro-Kann Defense
46
67
61
13
26
0.5
1627
3
French Defense
35
53
49
9
43
0.4
1660
4
Italian Game
12
50
50
0
50
0.3
1673
5
Queen's Pawn Game
22
43
41
5
55
0.1
1611
6
Queen's Gambit Declined
12
42
42
0
58
0.4
1676
7
Sicilian Defense
37
35
30
11
59
0.6
1611

The most played gambits over the season.5

Rank
Name
Games
White score (%)
1
Scotch Gambit
3
100
2
Smith-Morra Gambit
2
50
3
Greco Gambit
1
100
3
Polerio Defense (Two Knights)
1
100
4
Papa-Ticulat Gambit
1
50
4
Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack
1
50
5
Irish Gambit
1
0
5
Milner-Barry Gambit
1
0
5
Queen's Gambit Accepted
1
0
5
Rousseau Gambit
1
0
1–10 of 11 rows

The players who enjoyed the most success when playing gambits.6 Includes everyone who scored at least 50 per cent across at least two gambit games.

Rank
Player
Games
% Score
W
B
Choices
1
CaioDias
2
100
2
0
Scotch Gambit
1
h3roicdos3
2
100
1
1
Greco Gambit, Polerio Defense (Two Knights)
2
jcarmody
2
50
2
0
Smith-Morra Gambit

Openings sunburst

Click on the image below to see a sunburst plot of all openings played in the season.

Opening star placeholder

Awards

Assorted awards to celebrate the season - see the footnote for more details.7

Award
Name / Description
Winner(s)
Runner(s)-up
Aces
Aces
Scored +6 or better
BrigBirk
Archbishop of Accuracy
Archbishop of Accuracy
Lowest ACPL in undecided positions after move 10
sportsboy02
Achieved a season ACPL of 39.5
llpoh, flugschaedel
Bullet Boss
Bullet Boss
Most moves made in under 0.5s
TristanBrown17
26 insta-moves
unspoke, dodochesso
David Award
David Award
Faced the strongest opposition
wmakos
Opponents' record: 43/59
BrigBirk, sportsboy02
Gambit Guru
Gambit Guru
Best score playing gambits
CaioDias, h3roicdos3
Scored 100% from 2 gambit games
jcarmody
Giri Award
Giri Award
Most draws (> 1)
Mizrab, Nyrondiax, opelvivaro, r4do5
3 draws
Grischuk's Cousin
Grischuk's Cousin
Least time remaining after 10th move, and still winning
benitotrm
Had 15m 52s left after 10 moves
casual921, casual921
Houdini Award
Houdini Award
Biggest comebacks
BrigBirk
Achieved 4 notable comeback wins/draws
AgusiaS72, Nyrondiax
Intimate with Increment
Intimate with Increment
Highest percentage of moves played with < 1 min left
sportsboy02
18.9%
r4do5, casual921
MVP Award
MVP Award
Best performance rating relative to initial rating
t_taylor
+6-1=1 perf 1930, initially 1565
dodochesso, BrigBirk
Marathon Mover
Marathon Mover
Most moves played
r4do5
539 moves
NBSabin, Nyrondiax
Musing or Snoozing
Musing or Snoozing
Longest time spent on a move
opelvivaro
Spent 16m 55s
seandcosta, flugschaedel
Need for Speed
Need for Speed
Most wins/draws while gaining clock time
BrigBirk
7 time-gaining games
Catholicity, NBSabin
Primates of Precision
Primates of Precision
Most games < 10 ACPL
Ahleber
2 games
Rookie Award
Rookie Award
Best relative perf. by a new league player
TonyCharbroiler
+4-0=0 perf 2481, initially 1782
Rimio, ilgulla
Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell
Most moves made with < 5s left before winning
benitotrm
1 move(s) in https://lichess.org/N5IAC0FO
Slingshot Specialist
Slingshot Specialist
Achieved the most upsets across the season
dama_x_rey
2 upsets (biggest rating gap: 254)
ilgulla, t_taylor
Tarjan Award
Tarjan Award
Achieved the biggest upset
mjodonnell
https://lichess.org/uhwu5NLO (rating gap: 337)
ilgulla, dama_x_rey
Tetrarch of Time
Tetrarch of Time
Spent the most clock time across the season
r4do5
9h 6m 5s
rjhoro, bjfletcher

Stats - tables

Tons of detailed stats for your reading pleasure. All tables in this section are sortable and searchable - feel free to explore!

Best performances / highest accuracy

This table shows players’ relative performance ratings – that is, their performance rating over the season minus their initial rating before their first game.8 Includes everyone with a positive relative performance rating over at least five games.

#
Player
Games
W
D
L
Initial
Perf
Diff.
1
t_taylor
8
6
1
1
1565
1930
365
2
dodochesso
11
7
2
2
1572
1834
262
3
BrigBirk
10
8
1
1
1775
2003
228
4
werechessing
5
4
0
1
1625
1831
206
5
wmakos
9
7
0
2
1755
1941
186
6
CaioDias
10
6
1
3
1678
1863
185
7
PetersBJ
7
5
0
2
1638
1818
180
8
bjfletcher
9
5
2
2
1598
1761
163
9
hwelman
7
3
2
2
1587
1736
149
10
llpoh
5
4
0
1
1703
1844
141
1–10 of 33 rows

All players who played at least five games and achieved a season ACPL in the 20th percentile or below. Note that ‘season ACPL’ differs from Lichess game-wide ACPL figures, as it excludes opening moves as well as most moves played in objectively decided positions. See the footnote for full details.9 ACPLs based on Lichess’s published figures are provided for comparison purposes.

Rank
Player
Games
Season ACPL
Lichess ACPL
1
sportsboy02
5
39.5
31.2
2
llpoh
5
45.0
30.2
3
flugschaedel
9
45.6
30.8
4
ekopp2000
8
51.6
34.9
5
hwelman
7
54.2
36.1
6
Mizrab
8
54.4
33.0
7
kmaddox86
11
55.8
32.4
8
opelvivaro
6
55.9
38.5
9
mkubecek
9
56.1
35.0
10
casual921
7
59.2
43.0
1–10 of 20 rows

Time spent / strongest opponents

The 50 players who spent the most clock time over the season.

Rank
Player
Games
Total time spent
1
r4do5
11
9h 6m 5s
2
rjhoro
10
7h 41m 42s
3
bjfletcher
10
7h 33m 24s
4
alexkoj
11
7h 32m 24s
5
CaioDias
10
7h 1m 13s
6
Nyrondiax
10
6h 46m 53s
7
mongreltiger
9
6h 36m 12s
8
unspoke
10
6h 35m 56s
9
casual921
9
6h 30m 51s
10
mkubecek
10
6h 22m 4s
1–10 of 50 rows

Minimum 3 games played.

Rank
Player
Games
Moves
Time spent per move
Percentile
1
mkubecek
10
198
1m 27.6s
75
2
chiyeung
4
68
1m 20.0s
74
3
ilgulla
4
77
1m 19.5s
73
4
ScienceGeek
5
119
1m 18.8s
72
5
pilryam
8
208
1m 15.7s
71
6
kibenur
3
103
1m 15.0s
70
7
flugschaedel
9
261
1m 13.1s
69
8
ekopp2000
8
218
1m 12.9s
68
9
netvoyne
4
102
1m 12.8s
67
10
h3roicdos3
11
249
1m 12.6s
66
1–10 of 75 rows
...

The players who faced the best-scoring opponents over the season, when judged by their collective score over all their other games. Suggested by Tranzoo.

#
Player
Opp Games
Opp Pts
Opp %
1
wmakos
59
43
73
2
BrigBirk
65
45.5
70
3
sportsboy02
41
27
66
4
CaioDias
75
47.5
63
5
ekopp2000
46
28.5
62
6
ssyx
39
24
62
7
PsyMar2
70
43
61
8
t_taylor
62
37
60
9
h3roicdos3
75
44.5
59
10
Nyrondiax
74
43.5
59
1–10 of 29 rows

Comebacks and upsets

The players who achieved the most significant comeback wins and draws over the season.10 Suggested by Lou-E.

Rank
Player
CB Games
Wins from < -6
Wins from < -3
Draws from < -6
Draws from < -3
1
BrigBirk
4
1
2
0
1
2
AgusiaS72
4
0
3
1
0
3
Nyrondiax
4
1
1
1
1
4
rjhoro
4
0
3
0
1
5
ekopp2000
3
0
3
0
0
6
PsyMar2
3
1
1
0
1
6
dodochesso
4
0
2
0
2
6
t_taylor
3
1
1
0
1
6
wmakos
2
2
0
0
0
10
pilryam
3
1
0
1
1
1–10 of 56 rows

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

Everyone who achieved multiple wins over opponents rated at least 100 points higher.

Rank
Player
Total Upset Margin
Upsets
Avg Upset Margin
Biggest Margin
1
dama_x_rey
481
2
240.5
254
2
ilgulla
469
2
234.5
299
3
t_taylor
443
3
147.7
174
4
rjhoro
388
3
129.3
174
5
AgusiaS72
365
3
121.7
132
6
NBSabin
321
2
160.5
183
7
hwelman
283
2
141.5
149
8
mongreltiger
259
2
129.5
139
9
dodochesso
244
2
122.0
144
10
rickerw
237
2
118.5
128

Dawdlers and instant movers

Players who had the least time left after only 10 moves…but still managed to win! Suggested by Silkthewanderer.

Players who made at least five ‘instant’ moves (in under 0.5s), including pre-moves.

Rank
Player
Instant moves
1
TristanBrown17
26
2
unspoke
20
3
dodochesso
15
4
codydegen
12
5
alexkoj
11
5
llpoh
11
7
KDVNevs
9
8
NBSabin
8
8
benitotrm
8
8
jcarmody
8
1–10 of 15 rows

Long thinks, lucky escapes, time trouble/travel, most moves

The longest times spent on a single move.

Top 100 shown.

#
Player
Time spent
Colour
Move
Link
1
opelvivaro
16m 55s
White
12
2
seandcosta
14m 19s
Black
23
3
flugschaedel
11m 25s
Black
16
4
ukristen
10m 16s
White
14
5
TristanBrown17
10m 14s
Black
10
6
dodochesso
9m 49s
White
17
7
flugschaedel
9m 40s
Black
18
8
PsyMar2
9m 31s
White
26
9
Nyrondiax
9m 21s
Black
18
10
wmakos
9m 17s
White
22
1–10 of 100 rows
...

Shows players by proportion of moves made in time trouble (defined as having less than a minute remaining on the clock). Includes everyone who played at least 100 moves over the season while making at least one move in time trouble.

#
Player
All moves
With < 1min left
Time Trouble %
1
sportsboy02
249
47
18.9%
2
r4do5
539
94
17.4%
3
casual921
432
39
9.0%
4
ScienceGeek
167
15
9.0%
5
KDVNevs
367
23
6.3%
6
pilryam
296
17
5.7%
7
chiyeung
105
6
5.7%
8
CaioDias
439
25
5.7%
9
rickerw
229
10
4.4%
10
flugschaedel
349
15
4.3%
1–10 of 34 rows

Players who made moves with under 5 seconds left on their clock…and still won!11

Player
Moves with under 5s left
Least time left
Link

The ten players who made the most moves across the season.

Rank
Player
Moves
1
r4do5
539
2
NBSabin
487
3
Nyrondiax
483
4
codydegen
475
5
Catholicity
472
6
rjhoro
457
7
seandcosta
455
8
dodochesso
454
9
CaioDias
440
9
bjfletcher
440

Everyone who won or drew at least two games where they finished with more than 45 minutes left on their clock (30 for LoneWolf). Excludes losses and games shorter than 15 moves. Inspired by NLance and pulsar512b

Rank
Player
Time-gaining games
Max time left
1
BrigBirk
7
13
2
Catholicity
2
2
3
NBSabin
2
35
4
seandcosta
2
8
5
NormanTuttle
2
4
6
PsyMar2
2
6

About

  • This report was compiled on 08 December 2024.
  • These statistics are presented for general interest only. They are not guaranteed to be comprehensive, complete12, 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.13
  • Homepage / source code
  • Acknowledgements: Noun Project for the award icons; Simon Ilincev for chess_graph, which produces the openings sunburst plots.
  • Return to season reports

  1. There are several reasons why a pairing might not end up being played, including scheduling difficulties, a lack of available replacements, or one of the players not showing up at the start time!↩︎

  2. The number of games played in this statistic can differ from the number of games played in the season, as it excludes games where the result of the pairing was later changed to a forfeit win or loss.↩︎

  3. “Plus” score = played wins - played losses. Also, these season scores exclude any unplayed games, forfeit results or byes.↩︎

  4. A game’s total clock time is the sum of both players’ move times from move 2 onwards.↩︎

  5. For these statistics, a played opening line is termed a gambit if it arises from an opening or variation that’s commonly associated with one side sacrificing some material in the opening (in return for compensation) and the side that played the gambit actually sacrificed material in the game (for at least 5 consecutive half-moves before move 16). In particular, the list of gambit openings isn’t restricted to named gambits; it also includes for example the Marshall Attack in the Ruy Lopez, the Budapest Defence, and several variations of the Two Knights Defence in the Italian Game. However, this approach excludes games where a side decides to gambit material when not playing a traditionally gambit-associated opening. Yes, those should be considered gambits. But they’re not here.↩︎

  6. Qualifying “gambiteers” are ordered by number of gambit games played before percentage score.↩︎

  7. 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. 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 league season. Tarjan Award: named for James Tarjan, who famously defeated Vladimir Kramnik in 2017. David Award: the player whose opponents achieved the highest percentage score across the season, excluding games against the player. To be eligible, a player must have played at least 5 games over the season, and their opponents must have collectively played at least 30 games against others. Egalitarian Award: the team with the lowest standard deviation across players’ relative performance ratings. Other: all other awards should be self-explanatory.↩︎

  8. 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.↩︎

  9. Season ACPL here excludes the first 10 moves of a game, all zero-CPL moves played in zero-evaluation positions, and moves played in positions where one side has an advantage of +300 centipawns or greater that aren’t mistakes or blunders.↩︎

  10. I award “comeback points” for each game that a player won after their opponent had an advantage of at least 300 centipawns, according to Lichess’ server analysis. The scoring is rather simple. A win after suffering an evaluation disadvantage of more than 6 pawns earns 1 point. A win after being down by 3-6 pawns earns 0.7 points. A draw after being down more than 6 pawns earns 0.5 points. A draw after being down 3-6 pawns earns 0.3 points. Then the points are added up.↩︎

  11. Excludes moves made in positions where the mover had an objective advantage of +3 or greater. Players are first ordered by number of moves made with 5 or fewer seconds remaining, then by least time they had left (across all qualifying moves), and finally by the worst objective evaluation they faced (again across all moves).↩︎

  12. 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.↩︎

  13. 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.↩︎