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The Position

Abdusattorov, Nodirbek beat Madaminov, Mukhiddin at International Chess Tournament by Green Hills Resort Masters 2026 | Blitz.

White to move.

The final position is below.

The answer runs in tomorrow's issue.

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The Club Ledger · No. 6

Getting winning is not the same as staying winning.

For the typical player in the corpus, 25.0% of the games in which they reached an advantage of at least three pawns finished with the evaluation back at level or worse, measured over 247 players and 292,046 such games.

The middle half of players sit between 20.4% and 31.2%, so this is a habit nearly everyone has rather than a few people dragging an average. Pooling every game instead gives 25.6%, near enough the median that no one prolific account is carrying it. Only positions from move five onward count as the peak, so opening noise cannot qualify as winning, and the endpoint is the final evaluation rather than the result, which also turns on the clock.

Across 292,046 analysed games from 247 players.

From the Files

In the Center Game, the Lichess archive holds 30.3M club games (1600–2000) that reach this position. The top reply exd4 is chosen 77% of the time and scores 45% for Black.

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