Lichess Bundesliga - 275 editions since March 14th, 2020

Lichess celebrates 275 Bundesliga editions

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14 Oct 20223,942 viewsEnglish (US)

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1.355.590 registrations in 275 editions, average of almost 5000 players

The Lichess Bundesliga writes a history of more than 2,5 years since its first edition on March 13th, 2020.

Lichess Bundesliga Season 2022 Stats

Current team ranking of the Lichess season 2022 (of all Bundesliga editions, 82 editions already played this year):

Rank	Team	Team points	Participations	Championships	Average rank
1	The House Discord Server	38126	75	13	3.8
2	Blue Moon Diamond	37596	77	3	4.2
3	SK 1962 Ladenburg e.V.	35385	72	5	4.3
4	Team Entwicklung & Kompensation	26530	57	1	6
5	Dark Horse	25029	52	5	5.1
6	Guillon chess	21932	42	14	4.3
7	La Garde du Roi	15315	35	0	6.6
8	سرعتی های ایران	14241	28	2	4.8
9	Schachfreunde Berlin 1903	11939	27	0	6.7
10	Пылающее сердце	11570	25	0	7.4

... a total of 61 teams already made it this year into the highest league, the Lichess Bundesliga.

Lichess Bundesliga All-time table

In the Lichess Bundesliga All-time table, The House Discord Server still has a solid advantage over SK 1962 Ladenburg e.V. with a bit more than 15000 team points:

Rank	Team	Team points	Participations	Championships	Average rank
1	The House Discord Server	108789	231	44	3.9
2	SK 1962 Ladenburg e.V.	93011	205	17	4.7
3	Dark Horse	55250	121	10	5.1
4	Trio Fantastico and friends!	48228	108	15	5.2
5	Önderler syria	39389	75	38	2.5
6	Blue Moon Diamond	39070	80	3	4.2
7	На Западе Москвы	38282	88	7	5
8	La Garde du Roi	34236	79	1	6.4
9	Schachfreunde Berlin 1903	32045	76	1	6.6
10	Hamburger SK	31354	78	6	5.9

... a total of 201 teams already made it since March 13th, 2020 into the highest league, the Lichess Bundesliga.

275th Lichess Bundesliga edition

In the 275th edition, Torpedo Moscow won with quite a big margin of 83 team points:

Individual players stats by Thijscom

Thanks to Thijscom who provides a great analysis of Lichess rankings. The ranking is based on 12K events held between Mar 19, 2020 and Oct 09, 2022. In total, Lichess Bundesliga arenas featured 7.7M games (with 581M moves), and the 1.4M participants (115K unique players) scored a total of 20M arena points. In these games, white scored 48% wins, 7% draws, and 45% losses. The average berserk rate is 20.3%, and the average rating is 2030.

We are also able to congratulate the top 20 players, who scored the most points in all Lichess Bundesliga editions (Top 1000 players can also be found):

#	Title	Username	1	2	3	Points	/ Events	First - Last	Avg	Max
1.	GM	titan00013	111	40	15	13122	/ 284	May'20 - Oct'22	46	116
2.	IM	chessexplained	49	47	34	12390	/ 256	Apr'20 - Oct'22	48	101
3.	IM	samisahi	75	34	22	12201	/ 226	Apr'20 - Oct'22	54	115
4.		morlockk	42	34	23	10832	/ 262	Mar'20 - Oct'22	41	96
5.		mettigel	89	29	26	10657	/ 208	Apr'20 - Oct'22	51	121
6.	GM	dj_haubi	21	25	23	10501	/ 246	Apr'20 - Oct'22	43	83
7.	IM	drmelekess	37	20	21	10282	/ 157	Jul'20 - Oct'22	65	177
8.		penicillus	58	52	27	10094	/ 232	Apr'20 - Oct'22	44	84
9.		moppel1966	46	34	25	9964	/ 249	Mar'20 - Oct'22	40	79
10.	IM	vadimcernov		3	7	9835	/ 266	Mar'20 - Oct'22	37	61
11.	FM	superfm1	53	16	13	9696	/ 202	Mar'20 - Oct'22	48	104
12.	GM	danielhausrath1	7	9	11	9333	/ 245	Apr'20 - Oct'22	38	68
13.	IM	manitodeplomo	13	10	6	9288	/ 231	May'20 - Oct'22	40	123
14.	FM	cellini	26	29	24	9267	/ 246	May'20 - Oct'22	38	76
15.		lehrer_schmid	25	29	40	9176	/ 238	Mar'20 - Oct'22	39	74
16.		mw1966	34	30	22	9161	/ 234	Apr'20 - Oct'22	39	80
17.	FM	chess-orca	9	13	13	8941	/ 261	Apr'20 - Oct'22	34	72
18.		thefinnisher		1	1	8887	/ 251	Apr'20 - Oct'22	35	60
19.	FM	simonmkrtchyan	5	4	7	8634	/ 224	May'20 - Oct'22	39	77
20.		smuelli	31	32	16	8603	/ 220	May'20 - Oct'22	39	84

Weekly Lichess Bundesliga puzzles by Ensemo

Thanks to the big help of weekly Rapid League organizer Ensemo, you can also find weekly updated Lichess Bundesliga puzzles and test your tactical skills.

Check out the latest Lichess Bundesliga puzzles of October:

https://lichess.org/study/bAieNlon

And a big collection of 20 puzzles of September:

https://lichess.org/study/ktqVu2DS

Ensemo created tons of other Lichess Bundesliga puzzles that you should definitely check out.

Which Bundesliga Arena had the most participants?

On August 4th, the biggest Lichess Bundesliga Arena counted 765 registered participants:

#	ID	Type	Date	f	Rtng	Pts	Mvs	`	Winner	Max
1.	eaymuIK9	sb/li	Aug 04, 2022	765	2054	16	38	33%	yoseph2013	101
2.	L2xMFLft	bz/li	Jan 02, 2022	762	2051	12	38	39%	neverenough	70
3.	sRrklVl8	bz/li	Oct 02, 2022	762	2040	12	38	44%	satunnainen	75
4.	MGJgwDvs	bz/li	Jul 28, 2022	760	2058	12	37	27%	aqua_blazing	58
5.	dHeV3CDw	sb/li	Apr 21, 2022	757	1999	14	37	29%	may_lin_che	74
6.	xMGstRGY	sb/li	Jul 24, 2022	748	2078	16	38	30%	satunnainen	91
7.	Y237Ivp2	sb/li	Aug 25, 2022	743	2042	16	39	35%	mitrabha	102
8.	i3c2L4Dl	bz/li	Aug 07, 2022	741	2022	12	37	28%	satunnainen	91
9.	uz4DS9yT	sb/li	Aug 14, 2022	728	2058	17	37	35%	dimochka_tsoi	108
10.	embjoVFI	sb/li	May 01, 2022	718	2000	16	37	30%	mitrabha	101

Which Bundesliga Arena was the strongest?

GM Nihal Sarin won the strongest Bundesliga Arena so far which was played in August 22, 2021 with an average rating of 2295 per player:

#	ID	Type	Date	f	Rtng	Pts	Mvs	`	Winner	Max
1.	1ZQP6kHA	sb/li	Aug 22, 2021	605	2295	25	40	47%	nihalsarin2004	87
2.	cRO1enqG	bz/li	Dec 09, 2021	192	2294	15	38	21%	galeonovich	51
3.	2IGczbOg	bz/li	Oct 10, 2021	203	2283	15	39	36%	hovik7	74
4.	9sV1tQWT	sb/li	Aug 12, 2021	341	2280	25	40	46%	drmelekess	84
5.	LBXXNFH6	sb/li	Oct 24, 2021	163	2279	20	39	14%	gevo199064	59
6.	dxPeOTzq	bz/li	Jul 25, 2021	217	2278	18	39	29%	greennight	63
7.	ZteA7BD1	sb/li	Feb 17, 2022	141	2269	20	40	23%	mbojan23	74
8.	pBlF6JFb	bz/li	Jun 24, 2021	138	2266	14	38	8%	donnerhall	53
9.	I2c8M0y8	bz/li	Sep 26, 2021	124	2264	12	40	11%	arthurpijpers	35
10.	yDlSJ5XS	bz/li	Aug 19, 2021	218	2263	19	38	58%	the_chess_experience	92

How many titled players already took part in the Lichess Bundesliga?

According to Thijscom's ranking, 380 registered GMs, 22 WGM and at least 600 IMs participated in at least one of the Lichess Bundesligas. As the page stops at 1000 players, there were for sure many more :-)

World Champion Magnus Carlsen also played 2 games in the Lichess Bundesliga

On March 7th 2021, World Champion Magnus Carlsen supported his Team Offerspill Sjakklub in the 6th division of the Lichess Bundesliga and won both games:

Game 1:

https://lichess.org/E17VUmbz

Game 2:

https://lichess.org/0WadYh09

How can my team participate in the Lichess Bundesliga and where do I find the links for my team?

Teams may contact me via Lichess PM anytime to get their teams added into the league. Teams can join, pause and withdraw anytime. Teams find all the information about upcoming links via tournament descriptions (if a team becomes first, it can just click on "Team 1..." in the description and it can join the future Arena shortly after the Arena ends). They can also look it up anytime also in the announcement forum with an overview of all Lichess Bundesliga team battles and an overview of all teams.

How can I create or join a team of the Lichess Bundesliga?

If you don't have a team yet, you can either create a team yourself or you can lookup any team. Some teams may accept anyone who wants to join their team, some others might choose themselves if they will let you in or not. If you want to support the team of Lichess, feel free to play in the Lichess Bundesliga for the official Lichess Discord Bundesliga Team.

Thank you Lichess and thanks to all team captains and participants!

Last but not least I would like to take the opportunity to thank Lichess again for making the former "Quarantine League" the official Lichess League and for the ongoing support of this project. A big thanks also to all the active team leaders, team captains who gather their teams together in each edition, as well to all participants who also love chess and like to play in a team!

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