The TSW Challenge

@Toscani said in #40:

Chess is drawish, because engines or players considered a draw a win. If it was considered a loss, the game would rarely draw. But at the moment the players both get a half point. If only one had a half point and the other no points. Than the player that needs to win would take the risky path instead of the drawish path.

At the moment the chess goals are all made to avoid a loss at all costs, and a draw successfully achieves that.

But this has nothing to do with the topic under discussion. Even against opponents of equal level, series of 10 victories in a row are possible. Just by themselves at some point. And against much weaker opponents, the match consists almost entirely of them. For example. With a difference of 1000 rating points, the expected score between the opponents is approximately 243:1 (and this 1 is most likely a disconnect). That is, this entire match will consist almost entirely of series of victories by the stronger over the weaker. A bunch of series of 10 victories in a row in each. Most likely, this match will feature a series of more than 100 victories in a row. And I suggested an experiment to the author of the topic above. I suggested to him that I specifically easily beat him 10 times in a row during a match of 30 games. With a rating difference of 625 points between me and him, the expected score in the match should be approximately 29:1 in my favor. A series or series of 10 consecutive wins over him should happen here even just by the difference in ratings (that's what it means, that's its point, to predict the results of matches relatively accurately). Now I'm waiting for his answer.

@Toscani said in #40: > Chess is drawish, because engines or players considered a draw a win. If it was considered a loss, the game would rarely draw. But at the moment the players both get a half point. If only one had a half point and the other no points. Than the player that needs to win would take the risky path instead of the drawish path. > > At the moment the chess goals are all made to avoid a loss at all costs, and a draw successfully achieves that. But this has nothing to do with the topic under discussion. Even against opponents of equal level, series of 10 victories in a row are possible. Just by themselves at some point. And against much weaker opponents, the match consists almost entirely of them. For example. With a difference of 1000 rating points, the expected score between the opponents is approximately 243:1 (and this 1 is most likely a disconnect). That is, this entire match will consist almost entirely of series of victories by the stronger over the weaker. A bunch of series of 10 victories in a row in each. Most likely, this match will feature a series of more than 100 victories in a row. And I suggested an experiment to the author of the topic above. I suggested to him that I specifically easily beat him 10 times in a row during a match of 30 games. With a rating difference of 625 points between me and him, the expected score in the match should be approximately 29:1 in my favor. A series or series of 10 consecutive wins over him should happen here even just by the difference in ratings (that's what it means, that's its point, to predict the results of matches relatively accurately). Now I'm waiting for his answer.

Toscani

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I read in post #39 " But chess is too much of a drawish game" so I responded to that.
I also gave post 18 and 23, but that was not recent enough for the OP, yet answered his or her first post.
So I search and found one that was resent on post # 34.
Post number 34 fits the OP requirement.

I fail to see the point of dragging this out like we are spamming the forum to generate a million biased opinions.

I read in post #39 " But chess is too much of a drawish game" so I responded to that. I also gave post 18 and 23, but that was not recent enough for the OP, yet answered his or her first post. So I search and found one that was resent on post # 34. Post number 34 fits the OP requirement. I fail to see the point of dragging this out like we are spamming the forum to generate a million biased opinions.

firebrat

I think I have done that already - but it might have been a couple f years ago... :P

Toscani

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I think the op wants a profile that has a Current streak: - ...

https://lichess.org/@/Toscani/perf/blitz

Winning streak

Current streak: 4 games
from 1 Sept 2025, 11:20 to 1 Sept 2025, 13:24

If I play and win more games today which would require at least another hour or two of winning games, I might get a streak of ten. If i set the customs settings range to play players only less than my rating than i would be over inflating my rating to reach the TSW limit. I don't think that would be honorable. At the moment my custom rating range is set at 0 to +200.

I think the op wants a profile that has a Current streak: - ... https://lichess.org/@/Toscani/perf/blitz Winning streak Current streak: 4 games from 1 Sept 2025, 11:20 to 1 Sept 2025, 13:24 If I play and win more games today which would require at least another hour or two of winning games, I might get a streak of ten. If i set the customs settings range to play players only less than my rating than i would be over inflating my rating to reach the TSW limit. I don't think that would be honorable. At the moment my custom rating range is set at 0 to +200.

NM ThunderClap

I have 6 in a row as of now but earlier today/yesterday I had an 8 game streak' ... Yesterday a 7 game streak ... all searches were +350-350 White or Black pieces , Just need 4 more Today

ThinkSquareAcademy

If your interested in this challenge, find out how easy it is.
Book a free, educational consultation with our coaches FM Alexander Xhembulla, and CM Theodor Lindberg.
https://thinksquarechess.com/book-a-free-consultation
I only wish to help educate the chess community.

If your interested in this challenge, find out how easy it is. Book a free, educational consultation with our coaches FM Alexander Xhembulla, and CM Theodor Lindberg. https://thinksquarechess.com/book-a-free-consultation I only wish to help educate the chess community.

Inventor_1

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@ThinkSquareAcademy said in #46:

If your interested in this challenge, find out how easy it is.
Book a free, educational consultation with our coaches FM Alexander Xhembulla, and CM Theodor Lindberg.
thinksquarechess.com/book-a-free-consultation
I only wish to help educate the chess community.

This is simply at the level of "it couldn't be easier". This does not require any air traders, etc. This is available to almost all players (except for the weakest ones, at the level of very small children). It is not an achievement at all. It is done elementarily: just take much weaker opponents (for example, 1000 points weaker). And there will be series of not 10 wins in a row, but series of more than 100 wins in a row will periodically appear. Against opponents 1000 rating points weaker, the expected score is approximately 243:1 (and this 1 is most likely a disconnect). And among these 244 games there will be a whole bunch of series of 10 wins in a row. With close to 100% probability, there will be a series of more than 100 wins in a row. And I offered the author of the topic to play a match. So that I could beat him specifically 10 times in a row in a match of 30 games (according to the difference in my and his ratings (625 points), the expected score in the match between me and him is 29:1 in my favor; a series of 10 or more wins in a row of mine is expected here; maybe even more than 20 wins in a row of mine will happen). There is no answer from him yet (about 1 day has passed since I made such a proposal to him).

@ThinkSquareAcademy said in #46: > If your interested in this challenge, find out how easy it is. > Book a free, educational consultation with our coaches FM Alexander Xhembulla, and CM Theodor Lindberg. > thinksquarechess.com/book-a-free-consultation > I only wish to help educate the chess community. This is simply at the level of "it couldn't be easier". This does not require any air traders, etc. This is available to almost all players (except for the weakest ones, at the level of very small children). It is not an achievement at all. It is done elementarily: just take much weaker opponents (for example, 1000 points weaker). And there will be series of not 10 wins in a row, but series of more than 100 wins in a row will periodically appear. Against opponents 1000 rating points weaker, the expected score is approximately 243:1 (and this 1 is most likely a disconnect). And among these 244 games there will be a whole bunch of series of 10 wins in a row. With close to 100% probability, there will be a series of more than 100 wins in a row. And I offered the author of the topic to play a match. So that I could beat him specifically 10 times in a row in a match of 30 games (according to the difference in my and his ratings (625 points), the expected score in the match between me and him is 29:1 in my favor; a series of 10 or more wins in a row of mine is expected here; maybe even more than 20 wins in a row of mine will happen). There is no answer from him yet (about 1 day has passed since I made such a proposal to him).

Thymeflies

@Noflaps Fun challenge! I don’t know if this counts, but I just had a 16 win streak against an 1800 rated opponent in bullet chess (you can see it from my game history). I didn’t deliberately pick on a much lower-rated opponent, my opponent was a good sport and kept requesting rematches. Of course, if I had gotten opponents closer to my own rating, it’d be very challenging and would require an element of luck to reach 10 consecutive wins.

Noflaps

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Oh, WELL PLAYED mighty @Thymeflies.

It does indeed count! You are an achiever if ever I saw one!

Color me green with envy, rather than my usual golden-orange.

By the way -- although "being first" is a great honor, it's still quite an achievement to achieve, even for those who follow after.

So those who follow after will be like the third guy to step on the moon's surface: STILL a major dude (Note: no gender is being implied, since there are women who are "major dudes," too, in my experience).

Oh, WELL PLAYED mighty @Thymeflies. It does indeed count! You are an achiever if ever I saw one! Color me green with envy, rather than my usual golden-orange. By the way -- although "being first" is a great honor, it's still quite an achievement to achieve, even for those who follow after. So those who follow after will be like the third guy to step on the moon's surface: STILL a major dude (Note: no gender is being implied, since there are women who are "major dudes," too, in my experience).

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