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With all Hive-related tournaments having come to an end and the last round of the Hivechess 960 from 
Upon opening, you get a breakdown of how much chess you have played in the year 2025, and that is not all. You also get what your most played opening was, opponents, and more. I will share mine in this post.
Number of Games Played
I had a total of 898 games played, in which I won 458 of these games. The rest were left to draws and losses. That is quite interesting to me, given that I started playing Hive-related tournaments this year. I trust the number is still small compared to the number of games out there played by several chess lovers like myself. I wonder what next year would look like for chess for me.
Type of Chess Variants played
The number of games played was broken down into the different kinds of chess variants I played on Lichess. Although there are several different kinds of chess variants on Lichess, I only played in four kinds:
- Blitz with a total of 651 games
- Bullet with a total of 166 games
- Chess960 with a total of 79 games
- Rapid with a total of 2 games
I am surprised that the number of chess960 games I played is high, given that I do not enjoy playing that variant. It is because of the Hive tournaments that is why the number is high. Moving forward, I will try to play a lot of rapid games to help improve my chess.
Players I played the most
Lichess decided to call them the best chess foes because these are the players who have played the most this year. Here is another surprise for me when I got to see Odnoobraz_bcm, the player I played the most. That is interesting. All of these players are from the Friday Hivechess tournament, and they rank as follows:
Most Played Opening as White
My most played opening as white is the English Opening: King's English Variation.
Most Played Opening as White
My most played opening as white is the Benoni Defense: Old Benoni.
Number of Puzzles Solved
I solved a total of 90 puzzles, which is quite low. I guess I need to solve more.
This is my brief recap on Lichess. Go check out your stats and see how many games you played this year, or better still, learn more about your game. You might be surprised by what you would get to learn from this data.
