To show the number of players in the club, their activity, you can find some statistical values here:
Type
Value
Number of active players:
316
Number of running games:
588
Number of moves yesterday:
540
All incoming email messages:
2843393
All outgoing email messages:
4393382
A player becomes inactive if he/she is not playing in any game, does not have a pairing request, and sent his/her last message to the server more than 100 days ago. At this point he/she is temporarily removed from the players list, inactive players do not count into the above value.
Running games are those which have both players, have already started, but still didn't finish, so which are currently in progress.
Yesterday's moves are those which were taken from yesterday 00:00 until today 00:00 GMT.
All incoming messages are those, which were sent by the club members to the server from somewhere the beginning of 2002.
Outgoing messages were sent by the server to the players, also from around the beginning of 2002.
If you like to play chess, playing many games simultaneously, if you like to think your moves when you have time, and it doesn't bother you if your games last several weeks, then you are welcome to join
the club.
And here you can find some rather interesting than important statistics about pieces' activity in all the games since Jan 17, 2003:
Piece
Moves
%
Captures
%
Captured
%
King:
211590
10
17912
4
-
-
Queen:
259757
12
75182
16
33793
7
Rook:
285572
13
69042
14
47966
10
Knight:
413711
19
91345
19
95292
20
Bishop:
350004
16
93422
19
85898
18
Pawn:
635754
30
137005
28
220959
45
Summarized:
2156388
100
483908
100
483908
100
The data on this page are refreshed once each day, last on 2012.02.05, 00:00 CET.
The ELO system for rating chessplayers was named after its originator, Arpad Elo. Born in 1903, Elo emigrated to the USA when he was 10. Educated at Chicago University, he later became professor of physics at Marquette University, Milwaukee. He learned to play chess in his teens and played in a number of tournaments. He was champion or co-champion of Wisconsin 9 times between 1935 and 1961. He was active in the USCF (United States Chess Federation) from its founding in 1939. He spent 20 years developing and validating his chess rating system, which was adopted by FIDE in 1970 for international use.
His book 'The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present' was published in 1978 and is the definitive reference on the ELO rating system. Most chess organisations that perform ratings for players use the ELO system, or a variation of it.
Since we can have many simultaneous games here, moves of our opponents' usually come all the day, sometimes disturbing us in our regular work, in having time with our family or else.
The digest mode tries to solve this problem: the moves will not be sent to us immediately, but will be put into our queue instead. Then the queued messages will be sent out at the given one or more hours of the day in one message.
This way we can set, for example, that no message from the server of the club will disturb us during the day, but later, all the today's moves will come in one digest message.
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