I have a question about the chess insights. Are they really accurate? Because I was looking at a nemesis of mine.. TimC, who is in my opinion, one of the fastest players on Lichess, and on his insights it says that he only wins 46% of his games by flagging people, which I find really hard to believe because in our games, all of his wins were from flagging. Also looking at my insights it says that I win by flagging 50% of the time, making me more of a flagger than TimC, which I think is definitely not true since I am the one usually getting flagged, just ask former LM LethBridgeChess and co. who know me well and know that I am slow.
I think that the statistics are probably more reliable that an individual's memories, no offense brah
probably brah.. but still, I dont understand how the biggest flaggers on lichess have lower flagging rates than regular people like me. Just doesnt make sense.
Maybe you are a bigger flagger than you think. Been watching LeFong's streams a lot lately?
hehe I dont think so.. maybe who knows.
You've only played 1/2+0 games against him which naturally leads to time outs instead of checkmates. Remember that 1/2+0 was only implemented recently, but TimC has played over 5000 games starting from October.
Just some initial thoughts.
Just some initial thoughts.
Also, players tend to play messy in time scrambles before even getting flagged, so it's possible they fall into checkmate such that a flag isn't even reached - they could had fallen into the doom in panic.
yes, i agree with lordbutter, he's usually the one getting flagged.
I don't play bullet because I have a weak heart for such excitement, but I can honestly say I almost always remember when I get flagged in blitz, and almost never remember when I flag someone. So if I were to think simply by how often I get flagged, I would think I simply must not flag others as much.
But in reality, many times I have a won position and the opponent runs out the little clock they have rather than playing the forced moves to lose or resigning. Factoring that out I'd have said it's probably closer to 50/50 and I just don't think about the games I win by flagging because I win them. Sure enough my insight is about 50/50 (some clock draws in there as well). I would say that is likely the main difference. If you have clock draws, it's going to lower your flag percentages. If you have say 500 games, and 50 of them are draws, that's a full 10% you're losing on your total. So even if you win 60% and lose 40% of the non-draw games, you will be at 55% - 10% - 35% so maybe that's why yours is higher, maybe you just don't draw and he's more 50/50 because he gets more checkmates under the time pressure than flags, as was suggested.
But in reality, many times I have a won position and the opponent runs out the little clock they have rather than playing the forced moves to lose or resigning. Factoring that out I'd have said it's probably closer to 50/50 and I just don't think about the games I win by flagging because I win them. Sure enough my insight is about 50/50 (some clock draws in there as well). I would say that is likely the main difference. If you have clock draws, it's going to lower your flag percentages. If you have say 500 games, and 50 of them are draws, that's a full 10% you're losing on your total. So even if you win 60% and lose 40% of the non-draw games, you will be at 55% - 10% - 35% so maybe that's why yours is higher, maybe you just don't draw and he's more 50/50 because he gets more checkmates under the time pressure than flags, as was suggested.
whats your record against Timc LordButternoodles?
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