Lichess4545 Ledger

Issue #115 - October , 2019

State of the 4545 League

by @kostasvl

Recently, the 18th season of the 4545 league ended. A big thanks to everyone who participated in the season and especially to our beloved moderators who do a great job, so that we (and they first of all in their luxurious yacht) can enjoy the season! Congratulations to "Embrace the Pain" team who won the season with 12 match points and 39.5 game points. Note that this season, top 4 teams were tied in match points and the winners were decided on game points. "Tal, Dark and Handsome" granted the 2nd place with 39 game points (only half point between the winning team) and "The girl with the hyper-accelerated dragon tattoo" which I wish they had a shorter name (but it's ok because I literally copy-pasted their name to also avoid minor mistakes in team name) took the 3rd place with 38 game points. Click the following link to watch full summary of the 18th season: https://www.lichess4545.com/team4545/season/18/summary/

Remember you can still nominate games for end of season review https://www.lichess4545.com/team4545/season/18/nominate/.

Below you can read the survey write up of this season (by @somethingpretentious):

It’s time to finally share the survey results (now that they have been properly *cough* corrected). You can’t rush corruption after all! Thanks to all respondents - 88 people in all including 14 alternate players! A note on that while we’re here: captains please remember to invite alts to your team channels - alts are people too!

We’re pleased to note that people are still enjoying the league, with 74% 5/5 and 20% ⅘. We also scored highly on organization (82% 5/5) and compare favourably to last season, supposedly improving every single season! Perhaps people themselves enjoy their second season more than their first. Either way 60% 5/5 there as well.

What’s that? Which team had the best name? We thought you might be interested in that - the real competition after all. Well, without further ado, the top 3 team names were:

1. Harry Pawner and the Groblet of Finegold: Blunderdore’s Return (19.3%)

2. Don’t Judge a Rook by its Cover (10.8%)

3. The Girl with the Hyper-Accelerated Dragon Tattoo (9.6%)

The vote on assigning players to teams based on red/yellow cards had some interesting debate. It’s currently unlikely to be implemented for the upcoming season due to laziness and/or time constraints but here’s what the votes were:

Another hotly debated topic was the possibility of requiring players to identify. As has been stated several times in #general, this isn’t something we are currently considering implementing but wanted to judge opinion on the issue as it has been suggested. 57% of players voted no with 31% of players voting in favour.

Everyone seems happy with team and league size as usual, but we are always happy to be growing. Speaking of which, although 74% of people think 8 weeks is about right for the season length, 23% of people wanted it to be longer. The vast majority does not want to see the league split (84%) and if it were to be split, time zone is still the preferential method (46%).

Now for the reason you’re all reading this: when is the next season starting!!?!? Well, dear readers, we will be opening registration on Monday 14th October, with two full weeks of registration, team release on the 28th October and the first round starting 4th November. The registration period will be over the FOURTH 45|45 Anniversary tournament (join here https://lichess.org/tournament/Vv1WL7lS) on the 19th October at 1700UTC (don’t worry if you can’t make the start, it will run for 6 hours!).

A few miscellaneous responses to comments to wrap things up:

• Mods can only enforce rules if we know about them, let your captain and us know if your opponent is causing difficulties in scheduling.

• Feel free to feed back to any of the mods directly/indirectly/anonymously any of your thoughts.

• For requested changes to the website please leave an issue on https://github.com/cyanfish/heltour but please check to see it’s not already there!

• Remember to request your desired teammates during registration - we do our best to match you with as many of these players as we can (provided you aren’t too close in rating).

Finally, we’re glad so many of you are planning to play next season and that glbert and sgis have not driven you away. Congratulations to sgis who drove 7 players away this season compared to glbert’s 6. Hope to see the rest of you next season!

Side-leagues News

by @kostasvl (unsuccessfully assisted by somethingpretentious)

As you can see, no side league news :( Sorry! Please post news items in #lichessledger to have them appear here - I am shamefully ignorant.

Video

by @JarlCarlander, @okei and @pepellou (mostly @okei though)

Crazyhouse Videos

Rook Endgame Study from the Astaneh Simul
Important Crazyhouse Themes: Back-Rank Mate
Crazyhouse Highlights from the 1+0 CWC Candidates Part 1
Crazyhouse League Gameplay

TheFinnisher-Kingswitcher
pepellou vs AmelyPlaying
RapidVariants vs gsvc
pkr5025 vs ft029
Jasugi99-TheFinnisher & zyxon-RapidVariants
opperwezen-Jasugi99 Crazyhouse Training!
IM gsvc vs Kingswitcher

Weekly Stats

by @Kraaft, @RobUmbra and @Somethingpretentious

Stats for Season 18 Round 8:

• The fastest mate was white on move 25 found in Gamelink White: thatoneguy1475, Black: ubique29.
• The fastest draw was found in Gamelink White: flaneur, Black: chesspatzerfrance.
• The fastest resign was black on move 16 found in Gamelink White: okoros, Black: leonova.
• The biggest upset was 151 points in Gamelink White: axp156, Black: patk74.
• The longest game ended with black on move 81 Gamelink White: onekindking, Black: thedrunkenlawyer.
• The longest think was 18 minutes 34.0 seconds on move 5 in Gamelink White: bufferunderrun, Black: blackcat700.
• The most time left was 68 minutes 37.0 seconds in Gamelink White: erv123, Black: brilliantblunder.
• The most time spent was 85 minutes 16.0 seconds in Gamelink White: kraaft, Black: darubaru.

-PGNs-

Stats for Season 15 Round 11:

• The fastest mate was black on move 12 found in Gamelink White: webb_traverse, Black: oliviervaarkamp.
• The fastest draw was found in Gamelink White: rolihlahla, Black: doevert.
• The fastest resign was black on move 18 found in Gamelink White: solidplayerr, Black: jmvanaclocha.
• The biggest upset was 226 points in Gamelink White: rsava, Black: akshayk06.
• The longest game ended with white on move 80 Gamelink White: jkleebone, Black: mqll.
• 118 was the highest ACPL in Gamelink White: rolihlahla, Black: doevert.
• 11 was the lowest ACPL in Gamelink White: christopherchabris, Black: jessehf, Gamelink White: garfield1980, Black: pepepibote.
• Combined maximum ACPL was 235 in Gamelink White: rolihlahla, Black: doevert.
• Combined minimum ACPL was 44 in Gamelink White: razorneck, Black: thundercougarfalcon, Gamelink White: garfield1980, Black: pepepibote.
• The longest think was 25 minutes 2.0 seconds on move 35 in Gamelink White: mad_shaving, Black: kostasvl.
• The most time left was 48 minutes 30.0 seconds in Gamelink White: isuckatchess247, Black: chesseric44.
• The most time spent was 63 minutes 38.0 seconds in Gamelink White: spaceball, Black: wildgoosechess.

-PGNs- 

                   Games     1-0     =-=     0-1    Score
-----------------------------------------------------------
 All report games    713     316     100     297    51.3%
-----------------------------------------------------------

   Same-side castling:             65%    White Isolated Queen Pawn:      10%
   Opposite castling:              10%    Black Isolated Queen Pawn:      11%
   Kingside pawn storm:            17%    White Pawn on 5/6/7th rank:     50%
   Queens exchanged:               46%    Black Pawn on 2/3/4th rank:     34%
   Only one side has Bishop pair:   5%    Open c/d/e file:                57%

    Move   ECO       Frequency    Score  AvElo Perf AvYear %Draws
 1: e4     B00a      377: 52.8%   54.2%  1809  1836         15%
 2: d4     A40a      251: 35.2%   47.0%  1836  1813         13%
 3: c4     A10        42:  5.8%   60.7%  1815  1887         17%
 4: Nf3    A04        25:  3.5%   38.0%  1892  1791         12%
 5: b3     A01         8:  1.1%   37.5%  1807                0%
 6: f4     A02         7:  0.9%   50.0%  1854               14%
 7: a3     A00f        1:  0.1%  100.0%  1890                0%
 8: e3     A00k        1:  0.1%    0.0%  1740                0%
 9: a4     A00e        1:  0.1%  100.0%  1972                0%
_______________________________________________________________
TOTAL:               713:100.0%   51.3%  1823  1826         14%

                   Games     1-0     =-=     0-1    Score
-----------------------------------------------------------
 All report games    638     296      72     270    52.0%
-----------------------------------------------------------

   Same-side castling:             63%    White Isolated Queen Pawn:      12%
   Opposite castling:               9%    Black Isolated Queen Pawn:       9%
   Kingside pawn storm:            20%    White Pawn on 5/6/7th rank:     53%
   Queens exchanged:               49%    Black Pawn on 2/3/4th rank:     32%
   Only one side has Bishop pair:   7%    Open c/d/e file:                55%

    Move   ECO       Frequency    Score  AvElo Perf AvYear %Draws
 1: e4     B00a      315: 49.3%   52.8%  1804  1819         10%
 2: d4     A40a      240: 37.6%   51.0%  1830  1827         12%
 3: c4     A10        53:  8.3%   51.8%  1758  1829         13%
 4: Nf3    A04        19:  2.9%   47.3%  1782  1776         11%
 5: f4     A02         6:  0.9%   50.0%  1945                0%
 6: b3     A01         4:  0.6%   87.5%  2002               25%
 7: b4     A00p        1:  0.1%    0.0%  1991                0%
_______________________________________________________________
TOTAL:               638:100.0%   52.0%  1812  1824         11%

Chess Puzzles

by @forhavu, @kraaft

Click on the images for the solution.

Weiter (1940) - pras108 (1942) Gamelink. ⚪ White to play.	Weiter (1940) - pras108 (1942) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.	Brundd (1884) - mathijshuis (1872) Gamelink. ⚪ White to play.	Axp156 (2002) - patk74 (1851) Gamelink. ⚪ White to play.
Merkava777 (1918) - Scarff (1894) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.	dmavro (1844) - ErunaMe (1824) Gamelink. ⚪ White to play.	Drotciv (1647) - DavidDCPereira (1638) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.
TenThousandHours (2248) - supermaths (2138) Gamelink. ⚪ White to play.	pedropablo72 (1705) - gokuba (1794) Gamelink. ⚪ White to play.	swandog (1801) - Numberman768 (1717) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.

Chessboard images provided by apronus.

Please feel free to join #lichessledger on slack if you would like to contribute towards the ledger in any way, or provide any feedback. Both are highly encouraged and appreciated. Thank you for reading.

Lichess4545 Ledger #115 ©2019 by Thienan Nguyen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Thanks to @alen_basic, @Forhavu, @kostasvl, @kraaft, @okei, @pepellou, @RobUmbra, @Somethingpretentious and @ThomasThrainsson