GM Faustino Oro has officially been awarded the GM title by FIDE, making the 12-year-old Argentinian "Messi of Chess" the youngest current grandmaster. The confirmation comes shortly after he broke 3300 in blitz on Chess.com, giving an extra boost...
The top reply e5 is chosen 54% of the time and scores 49% for White.
For the typical player in the corpus, 20.1% of their games contain no blunder at all, about one in five, with the middle half of players between 16.1% and 24.6%. Measured across 469,787 analysed games from 253 players.
The figure is the median PLAYER's rate, not the corpus average: one prolific account holding a sixth of the games would otherwise be reported as though it were everybody. Playing a clean game is not the standard an amateur is failing to meet; it happens about one game in five.
Across 469,787 analysed games from 253 players.
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