What your games say about you

What insights are, and what they are not

A single game tells you what happened. An archive tells you what you do. Insights read every game you have imported and answer the questions a game cannot: which openings hold up, which pieces do your work, whether your games end in the middlegame or grind to an endgame, what time of day you play well, and how often a chance on the board got taken.

What your own archive would show

Overview

How many games are in the window, and how they split into wins, losses and draws: for both seats and for each one on its own.

How your games end

Resignation, checkmate, timeout, agreement, repetition, insufficient material. Split by whether you won or lost, because the two lists rarely look alike.

Game phases

Whether your games finish in the opening, the middlegame or the endgame, and how long they run in moves.

Openings

Your most played lines with the results under each, for one seat at a time: a line held from both sides is two questions merged into one number.

Mastery

How many moves of book you hold before the game leaves theory, and who left it first.

Pieces

Moves per piece across the archive, and how often each one was left hanging.

Loose pieces

Pieces you left where the material could be won, and the loose pieces you were handed against the ones you took. The capture sequence is walked from the cheapest attacker inwards, which is arithmetic on the board and asks no engine.

Castling

Which phase you castle in, and how the games go when you never do.

Tactics

Mate in one, found against missed. Only that, and only when the position really had it.

The clock

How long your moves take, how much of the game is played under time pressure, and which hours and weekdays you win in.

Where the games come from

Declare a chess.com or a Lichess username and Chesslord pulls the games itself. Declaring an account and syncing it are separate acts, so a sync names no username and can destroy nothing.

Neither service hands over a complete history: chess.com serves the most recent month, and Lichess a window of the newest games that never backfills, so a game not read while it was in the window is not reachable later. What Chesslord has read it keeps, which is why the archive fills out as you keep playing. Only standard chess is read. Variants are dropped and the number dropped is reported, because Stockfish does not refuse them, it returns wrong numbers that look right.

Questions about insights

Do I need an account?

Yes. Chesslord requires an account to use at all: there is no anonymous mode. The archive on this page is a public one shown so you can see what the figures look like before you decide.

How many of my games does it read?

Every game it has read, and it keeps them: the archive fills out as you keep playing rather than sliding forward. What any one read reaches is up to the service, and neither hands over a complete history.

Can I use a Lichess account?

Yes, and one of each: a chess.com account and a Lichess account can be declared at the same time. Declaring an account and syncing it are separate acts, so a sync names no username and can destroy nothing.