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What does high draw percentage mean?
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Mar 5, 2021
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#25
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
Very intelligent discussion on this thread so far
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Mar 5, 2021
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#28
"Endgames" is the best suggestion so far.
The top 5 blitz players on chess.com by rating have the following draw %...
9.8 -- Hikaru
12.4 -- Firouzja
21.2 -- So
23.5 -- Carlsen
11.6 -- Mamedov
Mar 5, 2021
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#29
Llama, on your old account @stiggling , which had nearly 1000 blitz games, you only had a draw percentage of 3.2
Of course that was a long time ago, so maybe something has changed in your play style since then to cause more draws?
Mar 5, 2021
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#30
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
Llama, on your old account @stiggling , which had nearly 1000 blitz games, you only had a draw percentage of 3.2
Of course that was a long time ago, so maybe something has changed in your play style since then to cause more draws?
But like... 500 of those games were with @lord_hammer when I was winning 9 out of 10 or more vs him.
Mar 5, 2021
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#35
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
On @llama44 you had 6.8%, and @llama45 had 7%, strange
Yeah, that's weird.
I don't know what to say.
Mar 5, 2021
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#36
Also weird that you haven't had any draws by agreement on this account. So it's not like you've just been offering or accepting more draws than usual or something.
Mar 5, 2021
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#37
I will say that recently I've been trying to use tournament type openings and not gambits or stuff.
So past accounts having a lower draw % makes sense to me (a lot of icelandic gambits for example) but still those accounts seem to have a higher than "normal" draw percentage too. (a few people have reported 5% here).
Mar 5, 2021
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#38
little_guinea_pig wrote:
15% draw rate means that your chess hero is Anish Giri.
40% draw rate means that you're taking lessons from Anish Giri.
90% draw rate means you are Anish Giri
giri doesn't even draw that much.
The tournament that cemented that image for him, he was playing enterprising chess, and had real winning chances... it's just he was weaker than most of the field, so even though he was getting good positions his games ended in draws.
He doesn't deserve that reputation.
Mar 5, 2021
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#39
Maybe it really is the fact that as a beginner I had a disdain for tactics and attacks. I believed "real" chess players won like Karpov, and people like Morphy and Tal used tricks and their games were of less value.
Since then I've mellowed, and I realize being well rounded is important, but I held on to this bias for about 10 years so... 
Mar 5, 2021
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#40
llama47 wrote:
@B1ZMARK and @1c6o-1
You guys make jokes, but my draw % is more than twice as much as both of yours (you're at 5%).
Hehe, I had around 10 % since the beginning (somehow it is a little lower now) while most of weaker players I've faced back then had like 3-4% or so. 
I often wonder the same myself. Let's just say that we play super combative, near super GM like chess and we never give up.
hmm time for some math
Or just use the graphic...
maths more fun