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Draws are extremely common in high level play, and statistics don't seem to exist for all levels of play, but I'm willing to guess that it's fairly uncommon acr

• danielbarla 5y ago
  I agree that publicly available large datasets / statistics become fairly rare below the 1600, above that level they are fairly common. But anecdotally, I once messed around with a bunch of large datasets for the purpose of comparing high-level play to lower ones, and the statistics weren't spectacularly different. Yes, the results are essentially far more random the lower you go (especially below 1800, where play is essentially a lot less accurate), but draws are still fairly common at the 1600 level. If memory serves, top-level games had around two-thirds end in a draw, while at the 1600 level, it was basically down to one third. Not what I would call uncommon, though certainly no longer the dominant result.
• kmm 5y ago
  According to the Lichess opening explorer[0], across their ~419 million games, only 5.3% ended in a draw. If you change the database from Lichess to Masters however, with a total of 2 million games, about 43% end in a draw. Anecdotally, I'm rated ~1700 and only 2% of my games were drawn, and most of those were stalemates. 0: https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer