Lichess4545 Ledger 048

Lichess4545 Ledger

Issue #048 - January 30, 2018

 

State of the League

 

This Lichess4545 League bye week marks end of the ninth season of Lonewolf and the inaugural Chess Series season. A congrats and thank you to all who participated!

Lichess4545 League reminder:

Registrations are currently open! If you would like to participate, sign up here. Teams will be released on 5 February with the first round starting a week later on 12 February.

Remember to nominate games for video review by messaging @chesster in a DM "nomination 45" or by visiting https://www.lichess4545.com/team4545/season/10/nominate/ while logged into the site.

 

Quick updates on the other leagues:

  • Lonewolf #9 is finally completed! First place in the U1800 section is @davejishnu while @Cline tops the open section. Congrats you two!
    Thanks everyone for participating! We'll come out with a survey soon to hear about your experiences this season, and to decide on when LoneWolf #10 should start.
     
  • #Blitz-battle: Congrats to @erinyu for winning the #25 edition of Blitz Battle. (That's three wins in a row!)
     
  • #Chess-Series: The winners of the first season of this series are: @moistvonlipwig for the Group Masters section; @f1nn33 for the Candidate Masters 1 section; @MasterSalomon for the Candidate Masters 2 section; @sirturtle for Group C; and @Assassin_in_White for the open swiss.
    More info and statistics below. You can also see the overall standing on the dedicated spreadsheet.

 

Weekly Stats

 

Lonewolf

Stats for Round 11 of Lonewolf #9:

  • The fastest mate was white on move 27 found in Gamelink White: zher0, Black: gokuba.
  • The fastest draw was black on move 18 found in Gamelink White: goblin_alchemist, Black: rgpchesspe.
  • The fastest resign was white on move 18 found in Gamelink White: lazypeon, Black: stinsonite.
  • The biggest upset was 279 points in Gamelink White: joeymellberg, Black: turristuricum.
  • The longest game ended with white on move 92 Gamelink White: chess4life, Black: little_dead_bertha.
  • 101 was the highest ACPL in Gamelink White: vevochi, Black: rsava.
  • 4 was the lowest ACPL in Gamelink White: joeymellberg, Black: turristuricum.
  • Combined maximum ACPL was 167 in Gamelink White: vevochi, Black: rsava
  • Combined minimum ACPL was 16 in Gamelink White: nitronite, Black: cline.
  • The longest think was 14 minutes 51.0 seconds by 4 in Gamelink White: oscararnoux, Black: tc622.
  • The most time left was 38 minutes 29.0 seconds in Gamelink White: deanmadden, Black: psimaster.
  • The most time spent was 61 minutes 38.0 seconds in Gamelink White: chess4life, Black: little_dead_bertha.

SPECIAL AWARDS OF THE SEASON

 

 

Gold

Silver

Bronze
Open Cline 2332 Assassin_in_White 2313 Chessgurud 2220
U1800 davejishnu 1851 jpokerflat 1773 xEmpCC 1678

Full standing.

 

  • Accuracy King: with an average of 13 ACPL in 5 rounds played, dubarnik.
  • Fast Finisher: with an average gamelength of 46 ply/23 moves in 5 rounds played, hanlonct.
  • Marathon Man: with an average gamelength of 134 ply/67 moves in 6 rounds played, kingrod.
  • Giri Award: 4 draws in 6 rounds played, heinie.
  • Biggest rating gain: with 263 rating points, cline.
  • Biggest rating loss: with 470 rating points, zayifkareler.
     
  • Fun fact: The most popular opening played was (categorized by ECO code) D00 - Queen's Pawn Game (21 games)

 

Overall stats for Round 1 to 11 of Lonewolf #9:

  • The fastest mate was white on move 10 found in Gamelink White: arthi15, Black: dodaihoc2111.
  • The fastest draw was black on move 13 found in Gamelink White: chennis, Black: heinie.
  • The fastest resign was black on move 11 found in Gamelink White: star-bearer, Black: xempcc, Gamelink White: doctodoom, Black: deanmadden.
  • The biggest upset was 388 points in Gamelink White: dorjanel, Black: currythecowardlycrab.
  • The longest game ended with white on move 108 Gamelink White: klooth, Black: kuhfighter.
  • 211 was the highest ACPL in Gamelink White: doctodoom, Black: proustino.
  • 4 was the lowest ACPL in Gamelink White: joeymellberg, Black: turristuricum.
  • Combined maximum ACPL was 340 in Gamelink White: doctodoom, Black: proustino.
  • Combined minimum ACPL was 12 in Gamelink White: little_dead_bertha, Black: arthi15.
  • The longest think was 24 minutes 18.0 seconds by 12 in Gamelink White: psimaster, Black: beefybeefy.
  • The most time left was 45 minutes 50.0 seconds in Gamelink White: journey_to_nm, Black: boviced.
  • The most time spent was 74 minutes 21.0 seconds in Gamelink White: klooth, Black: kuhfighter.

More data below with the database analysis of @seb32 bellow.

 

CHESS SERIES

Overall stats for Round 1 to 9 of Chess-Series #1:

by @ShAlexander

 

  • Shortest game by number of moves: 10 moves Gamelink RodrigoDiazdeVivar vs spuntachessTs Gamelink quirked vs HOB0.
  • Longest game by number of moves: 90 moves Gamelink dodaihoc2111 vs tonychess75.
  • Shortes game by time: 14m 23.86s Gamelink liamvo vs MasterSalomon.
  • Longest game by time: 4h 19m 17.81s Gamelink Sonata2 vs tomek188.
  • Longest think on one move: 48m 14.88s Gamelink Assassin_in_White vs WarGoblin.
  • Minimal ACPL: 4 Gamelink misiek91z vs rgpchesspe.
  • Maximal ACPL: 187 Gamelink RodrigoDiazdeVivar vs spuntachessTs.
  • Minimal summed ACPL: 10 Gamelink jg777 vs liamvo.
  • Maximal summed ACPL: 282 Gamelink RodrigoDiazdeVivar vs spuntachessTs.

Openings:

  • First ply: e4: 80 (43%), d4: 67 (36%), c4: 17 (9%), Nf3: 17 (9%), other: 6 (3%).
  • First full move: d4 Nf6: 43 (23%), e4 e5: 29 (16%), e4 c5: 21 (11%), d4 d5: 14 (7%), other: 80 (43%).
  • Games with longest matching opening: 9.5 moves Gamelink Assassin_in_White vs WarGoblin Gamelink morallygray vs roso97.

For (a lot) more data see this spreadsheet.

 

Relegation: People going up are certain. There might be more but so far these have been confirm. Only being relegated isn't clear because of the free spots from withdrawing people marked in brackets.

MASTER CANDIDATE M 1 CANDIDATE M 2 GROUP C SWISS

1st: moistvonlipwig
2nd: fabinou
3rd: scrooge

↘️ ???
7th: vacuum_cleaner
8th: s2004k1993
9th: alex_slow
10th: (god666)

↗️ to M
1st: f1nn33
2nd: eie24

↘️ to GC
9th: (ThePasiP)
10th: (gauravsinghmd)

↗️ to M
1st: MasterSalomon
2nd: kobol

↘️ to GC
9th: roso97
10th: (HOB0)

↗️ to CM
1st: sirturtle
2nd: misiek91z
3rd: rgpchesspe

↘️
???

 ↗️ to CM
1st: assassin_in_white
 

 

 

Database Analysis of Lonewolf #9

 

Total games 1-0 1/2 0-1 Score
601 games 279 74 248 52.5%

 

Average Rating and Performance

White rating: 1836 (601 games);  White performance: 1851 (53% vs 1830)
Black rating: 1830 (601 games);  Black performance: 1815 (47% vs 1836)

 

Frequency of Themes in the First 20 moves of each game

Same-side castling 56% White Isolated Queen Pawn 9%
Opposite-side castling 8% Black Isolated Queen Pawn 6%
Queens exchanged 18% White Pawn on 5-7th rank 53%
Only 1 side with Bishop Pair 46% Black Pawn on 2-4th rank 34%
Kingside Pawn Storm 5% Open c/d/e file 52%

 

Opening Move

 

    Move   ECO       Frequency    Score  AvElo Perf AvYear %Draws
 1: e4     B00a      265: 44.0%   49.6%  1813  1815         12%
 2: d4     A40a      250: 41.5%   56.4%  1839  1864         10%
 3: c4     A10        40:  6.6%   45.0%  1852  1819         15%
 4: Nf3    A04        34:  5.6%   54.4%  1960  1988         26%
 5: b3     A01         7:  1.1%   71.4%  1938               29%
 6: f4     A02         2:  0.3%    0.0%  1805                0%
 7: b4     A00p        1:  0.1%    0.0%  1882                0%
 8: g3     A00t        1:  0.1%  100.0%  1862                0%
 9: e3     A00k        1:  0.1%  100.0%  1743                0%
_______________________________________________________________
TOTAL:               601:100.0%   52.5%  1836  1850         12%

 

Here's all the game of the Lonewolf season 9 (PGN format) :
Link.

Also see the stats page for win percentages for each board by color and ratings distribution.

 

Chess Puzzle

 

@erinyu worked on an in depth study for us from this week Lonewolf with @klooth (2045) vs @toni4127 (1901) :

Click on "Open" to have a better presentation in full screen and see the previous chapters.

 

 

 

ChessLeagueTV Please check the CLTV Youtube page for VODs of the recent streams.

 

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Reporters (Keeping in touch with each league, report news/changes...)
Redactor/Editor (Final editing, or at least making sure the English language is not murdered.)
Puzzles Finder (Did you find a cool tactic in a match in one of the leagues this week? Post it in the #lichessledger channel!)
Contributors (Any content that you've created and would like to share? Let us know!)
 

 

Creative Commons License

Lichess4545 Ledger #048 ©2018 by Thienan Nguyen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Thanks to @ErinYu @luvgangster @moistvonlipwig @ShAlexander @somethinpretentious and @yago666