We are sharing some fun facts from the first 500,000 Chess.com games played on ChessUp 2.
Time format popularity:
The most active user played 1,018 games !! (*and there are several more users who played 900+).
The group gained over 200,000 ratings points.
ChessUp 2 users have logged in from 158 countries.
Users range from 100 rating to 2766 rating. Everyone is welcome 
1,679 users attempted bullet games…and 279 miraculously won.
I absolutly love the product. I am using it for 100% chess.com online games atm. And after the bugs in december, i had zero broken games with it. No disconnections etc. User leaving a game is handled properly. Connection problems are handled properly. Interaction ( quitting or draw) is handled correctly.
It regained full trust for me , as i never think about “oh hope it does not disconnect”.
Great job 
10/0 is surprising to see as the most popular time control. I would have thought 10/5 would have been more popular due to having to move your opponents piece on your time. I’m glad to see 15/10 is right up there though, that’s my favorite time control.
Thanks some incredible stats. Congrats on all the growth with the board. Well done 
Indeed! Very surprising as no increment in my opinion is a heavy handicap.
Are the 200k rating points absolute? Or is this only taking into account the gains? What about the losses?
Basically it is a snapshot of “rating at most recent sighting on CU2” - “rating at first sighting on CU2” for every user summed together. Not everyone gained rating, but majority did. Some gained hundreds, many gained or lost small amounts, etc.
It is actually probably better than that if we could correct for the fact that chess.com seeds accounts at 1200 (which is ~90th percentile so most people end up below 1200). And there are many new accounts in the data that settle into an accurate rating below 1200.
I seemed to have trouble getting takers at 10/05 but a bit better at 10/0 so it does not surprise me.
