Lichess4545 Ledger 079

Lichess4545 Ledger

Issue #079 - October 10, 2018

State of the 4545 League

by @SpiteKnight

Team 'Ha, We Got Lovlas' and team 'Flirty Daggers' share the top spot after 3 rounds. They face each other in the 4th round making the match-up an interesting one.

@wookash leads the Open section in LoneWolf with 4/4 points. @PawnsWillPrevail leads the U1800 section with 4/4 points.

Chess960 Season 3 has come to an end.
Final standings are:
1st place: @Scrooge
2nd place: @SycoraxCirce
3rd place: @FlokiTheCat
Best U1600 player: @kostasvl
Congratulations to all the winners!
Full summary of the season can be found here.
Season 4 of chess960 starts on October 22nd! Registration is already open: https://www.lichess4545.com/chess960/register/
Please join #chess960 on slack for more information on this side league.

Video

GM Niclas Huschenbeth has released the final two video reviews of the nominated games. We thank him for his work.

lakinwecker vs. RealRobbert

Ceramic vs. rsava

Study

By @delpire

@delpire vs. @rederik

We also have an interesting blog post by @okei, covering the first 10+10 CrazyHouse League organized by @Zher0

Weekly Stats

by @kraaft and @somethingpretentious

Stats for Season 14 Rounds 3:

The fastest mate was white on move 18 found in Gamelink White: jitre, Black: toffeeman.
The fastest draw was found in Gamelink White: swornt, Black: flokithecat.
The fastest resign was white on move 11 found in Gamelink White: revoof, Black: krsto.
The biggest upset was 253 points in Gamelink White: assassin_in_white, Black: theme.
The longest game ended with white on move 83 Gamelink White: ihideonbush, Black: makeareason.
161 was the highest ACPL in Gamelink White: mousr, Black: imperatorealev.
2 was the lowest ACPL in Gamelink White: roso97, Black: national_patzer.
Combined maximum ACPL was 306 in Gamelink White: mousr, Black: imperatorealev.
Combined minimum ACPL was 8 in Gamelink White: roso97, Black: national_patzer.
The longest think was 22 minutes 9.0 seconds on move 12 in Gamelink White: skims, Black: sycoraxcirce.
The most time left was 78 minutes 31.0 seconds in Gamelink White: redban, Black: followthewhiterabbit.
The most time spent was 104 minutes 60.0 seconds in Gamelink White: ihideonbush, Black: makeareason.

-PGNs-

Stats for Season 12 Round 4:

The fastest mate was white on move 15 found in Gamelink White: lostearthworm, Black: injektilo.
The fastest draw was found in Gamelink White: brundd, Black: jpokerflat.
The fastest resign was white on move 9 found in Gamelink White: joyboy, Black: emptyset2.
The biggest upset was 583 points in Gamelink White: marantz3, Black: vadsamoht.
The longest game ended with black on move 88 Gamelink White: dlgabriel, Black: felipekaox.
178 was the highest ACPL in Gamelink White: dwh0405, Black: robumbra.
7 was the lowest ACPL in Gamelink White: marantz3, Black: vadsamoht, Gamelink White: ed84, Black: fismoluni.
Combined maximum ACPL was 318 in Gamelink White: dwh0405, Black: robumbra.
Combined minimum ACPL was 17 in Gamelink White: marantz3, Black: vadsamoht.
The longest think was 10 minutes 54.0 seconds on move 40 in Gamelink White: heinie, Black: camcam52.
The most time left was 47 minutes 19.0 seconds in Gamelink White: boviced, Black: razorsharponly.
The most time spent was 72 minutes 54.0 seconds in Gamelink White: dlgabriel, Black: felipekaox.

-PGNs-

Chess Puzzles

by @forhavu and @kraaft

Click on the images for the solution.


DrTodd (1759) - sgis (1765) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.	lez314 (1657) - bungalowboi (1618) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.	sprcow (1679) - PsiMaster (1643) Gamelink. ◯ White to play.

joyboy (1735) - EmptySet2 (1840) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.	Tranzoo (1747) - yoyold (1820) Gamelink. ⚫ Black to play.

Chessboard images provided by lenik terenin.

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.

Thanks to @delpire, @forhavu, @kraaft, @okei, @somethingpretentious and @SpiteKnight