A detailed look at LiChess Insights

 Here, I take a good deep look at the Chess Insights analytics provided by LiChess over your analyzed games!

Firstly, accessing the insights .. 

Go to your profile page and then click on the Chess Insights tab towards middle right of the page, just below the ratings progress graph.

This will pop up the home page of chess insights and you will see something like below. It is showing your average centi-pawn loss per move (ACPL - we had seen this when we looked at computer analysis of your games - in earlier blog) against the various time controls of games that you play - bullet, blitz, rapid etc.

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You can see that it shows the drop down at the top for the metric (right now ACPL is selected) by the dimension (right now, variant of time control is selected). You can change both of the these to get different insights. You can also "filter" the game-set for analysis by more parameters (like only your games from White side or only the games that you lost etc).

There are groups of controls available for Filter, Metric or Dimension and lets take a closer look at these.

• SETUP Group

This is called "setup" because this is decided before you even start your game! Under this group, we have 4 controls covering:

1. Date/DateRange - you can select from last 24 hrs going all the way up to last 3 years
2. Chess Variant - This is like bullet, rapid, classical and other variants like crazyhouse, chess960 etc
3. Color - You can choose either White only or Black only or Both colors
4. Opponent strength - based on the rating difference between you and your opponent, the latter is marked as "Much Weaker" or "Weaker" or "Equal" or "Stronger" or "Much Stronger"

• GAME Group

This group has some game characteristics derived from the game like:

1. Opening - You can select one or more of the 500 opening codes from A00 to E99 as per the ECO (Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings)
2. Your castling side - K-side or Q-side or None
3. Opponent's Castling side - K-side, Q-side or None
4. Queen Trade - games where Queens were exchanged or not

• MOVE Group

This group has many details relevant for  each particular move that is played. There are 6 controls here:

1. Game Phase - Is this in the Opening Phase or Middle-Game or EndGame phase
2. Material Balance - Current material balance as sum of values of all pieces and pawns relative to that of your opponent. This is in buckets like Huge (6+) or Massive (3+) or  Big (1+) or slight (0 to 1) or equal
3. Positional Evaluation - Current positional score as evaluated by Stockfish before you make the move. Remember, one pawn is value 1 equal to 100 centi-pawns. This is in buckets like Huge (600+), Massive (350+), Big (175+),  Significant (80+), Slight (25+) or Equal (<25)
4. Piece Moved - Which type of piece is moved - Pawn, Knight, Bishop, Rook, Queen or King
5. Move Time - Time taken for the move
6. Centi-pawn loss - evaluation of the move as to how much loss if any it introduces. This is in buckets from Huge (500+), Massive (200+), Big (100+), Significant (50+), to Slight (25+) to Negligible (<25)

• EVALUATION Group

This group has the measure of the evaluation of your moves or your opponents moves on average. There are 4 controls as:

1. ACPL - Average centi-pawn loss of your moves. Remember, one pawn is value 1 equal to 100 centi-pawns.
2. CPL-Bucket - It is far easier to treat the move as falling under a bucket of ACPL. The buckets are: Huge (500+), Massive (200+), Big (100+), Significant (50+), to Slight (25+) to Negligible (<25)
3. Opportunism - Your efficiency rate of exploiting opponents blunders
4. Luck - Your opponent's tendency to forego punishing your blunders

• GAME Result

This group has features about the end result of the game, how it ended, what was the result and what was the net rating gain (or loss) for you.

1. Game Termination - This can be due to clock-flag, disconnect, resignation, theoretical draw, stalemate or Checkmate
2. Game Result - Win, Draw or Loss
3. Rating Gain - The amount of rating points you win or lose after the game

Wow!! Thats quite a lot of data and analytics at your fingertips. But it takes a while to understand and grasp all of this. This is more for your parents if they are used to analytics in corporate world.

We will stop here today and look at my own analysis using this tool next - going beyond the LC preset insights.  Happy Analyzing!