State of the Database, January 2014
Another version of the DHLC Slow Chess League games database has been published. It includes games from events played up to 19 January 2014. As you will see at the end of this post, there are some extra statistics this month. Lets start with the basic statistics from the games database.
Number of DHLC members: 3906 (up from 3868)
Number of games: 2679 (up from 2270)
Number of players: 693 (up from 613)
Percentage of DHLC members playing: 17.74%
Number of events: 153
Most active players (at least 25 games)
I have decided to drop the cutoff of 25 games for this list and simply grab the first two pages from Chessbase. There are now enough Slow Chess League players that a couple of pages is realistic.
Again there are new faces in there, and in the Slow Chess League overall.
I still haven't worked out an easy way to give you a list of the "winningest" players, those who have won the most games, and perhaps a list of our drawing masters but I expect that will appear in the coming months.
Let's have some more pictures now. First, here is the overall win-loss record.
Here is a breakdown of the game lengths (this is by number of moves, not by time):
Want to know which openings are the most popular? Then this next section is for you. You will need to have access to the ECO opening codes to understand the next graphs. There are many places on the internet where they can be found but the Wikipedia Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings page is as good a place to start as any. I have included a picture for each of the A - E major ECO codes.
I did say that there would be a little more than usual this month. One of our members, ipcress12, who is quite skilled in the wonders of the Python programming language has put those skills to use on our behalf.
Note that this section is new and is therefore somewhat experimental. Don't be surprised if there are some small differences between this section and the usual statistics above.
Basic statistics:
Num Games: 2676
Num Players: 693
High Rating: 2062
Low Rating: 666
Avg Rating: 1393
Number of active players by ratings:
600: 1
700: 4
800: 12
900: 25
1000: 34
1100: 56
1200: 90
1300: 113
1400: 134
1500: 102
1600: 55
1700: 40
1800: 19
1900: 7
2000: 1
And now a teaser of some more detailed analysis of the openings you all like to use. There is a LOT more of this so I have just included a sample. I'd like some feedback on whether you want to see the complete openings analysis. If so, I'll work out a way of publishing it if there is too much to fit into an already large blog post.
Openings by first move:
1699 1.e4
732 1.d4
128 1.c4
87 1.Nf3
14 1.g4,
11 1.b3
5 1.f4
Openings by name:
516 Sicilian
241 French
169 Ruy Lopez
168 Queen's Gambit Declined
128 English
126 Queen's Pawn Game
121 Caro-Kann
116 King's Indian
80 Two Knights
76 Pirc
61 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
59 Petrov
58 Scotch Game
58 Giuoco Piano
55 Nimzo-Indian
49 King's Pawn Game
45 Reti Opening
43 Scandinavian
42 King's Indian Attack
41 Dutch
32 Four Knights
30 Philidor
27 Robatsch
25 Alekhine's
23 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
23 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
22 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation)
20 King's Gambit Accepted
19 King's Knight Opening
18 Grunfeld
17 Queen's Gambit Accepted
16 Benoni
15 King's Gambit Declined
14 Uncommon Opening
12 Vienna
12 Bogo-Indian
11 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
10 Queen's Indian
10 Bishop's Opening
9 Center Game
8 Catalan
8 Benko Gambit
7 Richter-Veresov Attack
7 Neo-Grunfeld
5 Modern
5 Bird's Opening
4 Three Knights
4 Old Indian
4 Old Benoni
4 Budapest Gambit
3 Evans Gambit
Openings by variation (ECO):
65 B22 Sicilian, Alapin
58 C45 Scotch Game
55 C02 French, Advance
54 C42 Petrov Defense
50 D02 Queen's Pawn Game
50 B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
49 C44 King's Pawn Game
46 C01 French, Exchange
43 B01 Scandinavian
36 B07 Pirc
34 B50 Sicilian
31 C50 Giuoco Piano
31 B08 Pirc, Classical
30 C41 Philidor Defense
30 B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
29 A07 King's Indian Attack
28 C00 French Defense
27 C55 Two Knights Defense
27 B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
27 B06 Robatsch
26 B23 Sicilian, Closed
24 C54 Giuoco Piano
23 B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
22 D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation)
22 B18 Caro-Kann, Classical
21 D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
21 C56 Two Knights
21 B12 Caro-Kann Defense
20 D35 Queen's Gambit Declined
20 D00 Queen's Pawn Game
20 C78 Ruy Lopez
20 C77 Ruy Lopez
20 C47 Four Knights
That's it from me for another database statistics update. I hope you find something of interest. Please let me know what you think of the extras this month, and if there is anything else you might like to see. See you next time.
