The Open File
by Life Master Mike Petersen (Zug)
No Losers Here!
Did you ever look at the list of players on chess.com sorted by rating? You look at the first page or two just to see who might have a high rating, then you look up what page you might be on, and that's about it.
Well, I've gone the list one better. I decided to see who the players are at chess.com who have lost at most one game, and list them all here. I stopped after looking at the 300 highest rated players. Turns out there are 38 of them, and I have listed them all in the table below. You should have some fun going over them. I decided to put some additional information for each player that might be of interest. For instance, among the 38, 16 are premium (paid) members while 22 are not, and 23 identify themselves by name while 15 do not. I also listed the average rating of their opponents, and it turns out that Vladik tops the list in that area, while tkanzakik has the lowest average opponents. Another interesting point is that there are very few titled players in this list. One additional thing to note is that a few of the players on this list are not currently active: chapo60, loser, Blogeurix, and prvnrk.
Okay, so what does all this mean? Well, I'm going to leave that part up to you. Do your own analysis and post a comment. What do you think it means?
Abbreviations: F=Free
P=Premium
I=Real Name Listed
U=Unknown Name
AvgOpp=Average Rating of Opponents
User ID Rating AvgOpp Wins Losses Draws
F U capablankamonte 2964 1845 87 (99%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%)
F I atlantischess 2960 2158 148 (89%) 1 (1%) 17 (10%)
P U baki1959 2941 2344 33 (77%) 1 (2%) 9 (21%)
P I Vladik 2928 2417 30 (63%) 0 (0%) 18 (38%)
F I ManuChena 2888 2380 27 (68%) 1 (3%) 12 (30%)
F U chapo60 2859 1992 75 (88%) 0 (0%) 10 (12%)
P I miantola 2851 2104 62 (87%) 0 (0%) 9 (13%)
P U sproates 2823 1792 166 (94%) 0 (0%) 11 (6%)
P U snrf 2804 2194 25 (93%) 0 (0%) 2 (7%)
P I Ludde 2758 2077 79 (83%) 1 (1%) 15 (16%)
F I songoku 2711 1896 95 (78%) 0 (0%) 27 (22%)
F I baldyman57 2676 1928 55 (89%) 0 (0%) 7 (11%)
P I Zubrea 2675 2172 54 (77%) 0 (0%) 16 (23%)
F U Slow_Burn 2657 2317 22 (88%) 1 (4%) 2 (8%)
F I BlackRodryg 2648 1828 52 (96%) 1 (2%) 1 (2%)
P U eternaloptimist 2636 1749 28 (97%) 0 (0%) 1 (3%)
P I arunabi (GM) 2636 2174 8 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
P I talmich 2635 2036 59 (78%) 1 (1%) 16 (21%)
P U loser (NM) 2635 1738 249 (97%) 0 (0%) 7 (3%)
F I stojle 2592 2021 33 (87%) 0 (0%) 5 (13%
F U velemajstorjm 2592 1746 37 (97%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%)
F I kon27 2573 1859 70 (96%) 1 (1%) 2 (3%)
F I ADBell 2572 1740 47 (94%) 1 (2%) 2 (4%)
F I Zbreg79 2567 2257 17 (77%) 1 (5%) 4 (18%)
P I KYLion 2566 1802 190 (96%) 0 (0%) 7 (4%)
P I BCG1 2541 1824 22 (85%) 1 (4%) 3 (12%)
F I yuggoth 2530 2007 36 (86%) 1 (2%) 5 (12%)
F I Blogeurix 2528 1957 10 (77%) 0 (0%) 3 (23%)
F U Revere 2523 1661 36 (95%) 0 (0%) 2 (5%)
F U prvnrk 2521 1828 54 (83%) 1 (2%) 10 (15%)
F U SicilianTM 2520 1872 34 (92%) 1 (3%) 2 (5%)
P U mac_daddy 2518 1513 164 (99%) 1 (1%) 1 (1%)
P I ImmortalTechnique (FM) 2509 2305 3 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
F U BoboXXL 2508 1810 27 (96%) 1 (4%) 0 (0%)
F U Bantu_negro 2505 1685 51 (86%) 1 (2%) 7 (12%)
F I bosico 2504 2043 74 (84%) 0 (0%) 14 (16%)
F I tkanzakic 2499 1628 82 (96%) 1 (1%) 2 (2%)
P I bajenager 2493 1942 53 (98%) 0 (0%) 1 (2%)
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