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Is the "ELO win ratio" a statistic you've seen elsewhere, or did you make it up? Secondly, you don't use the Performance Rating. Is this for any particular reason? One positive about the performance r…

I've blocked 113, almost all for abandoning the game after they lose their queen, or are about to get checkmated, etc. Is it possible they don't know what jerks they are being? I'm guessing these woul…

I wonder what brought this topic back to life. I checked the Immortal Game site last night and there were 0 games being played. I was going to declare it dead, but my last minute check this morning sh…

My most common reason to abort: I've told someone in my household that I'll talk to them after my game is over, and then when it ends, I immediately click "new game." Actually, I don't usually abort, …

My reasoning is that if you say a game has 30 moves, then 2+1 works out to 2 and a half minutes or so, which is of course, less than 3 minutes. So in theory one should be able to play the same game in…

I had never heard of tournament points before. I see I have 29,770. Does anyone care about this statistic? As to the original question, I looked at your profile @Cedur216 as an arbitrary other person …

@scarpentus How do 2+1 and 3+0 compare for you? To me, they are practically the same, and it's weird that 1/2+0 through 2+1 are all put in the same category.

I would rather have 1+1 on the quick pairings than 2+1. Anyone agree or disagree?

It seems like missing forced mate is something one could learn from. I had never actually used the "learn from your mistakes" tool before. Looking at one of my games, it called out all kinds of relati…

Here is an image showing the double question mark on the board and in the move list: https://postimg.cc/1ghSY0C0