Through the Years: Long Correspondence

Do one of these files show how long it took for a game to complete ? Or do you need to keep track of all your downloads?

IIRC one of the files has the list of all games and dates of start and end for each of them.

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For those of you who like multiples of 13 and square numbers, there are now only 169 active games remaining in round 2!

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20 days later (data as of 2/27/2026 provided by Purble):

  • 163 games in progress, 191 players involved, 48 groups
  • 18 completed games
  • 17 players completed all their games, 1 of them with 9 wins
  • 3 groups completed all their games
  • 1 disqualified player

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Still involved in one of the remaining games. Hope it will not still be there in the 10 last ones.

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Now playing rather “fast” but my opponent keeps playing like twice a month. Move 204, the endgame drags on, I should win by 20 points unless I miss something … and hopefully will live on to the end.

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17 days later (data as of 3/16/2026 provided by Purble):

  • 156 games in progress, 188 players involved, 48 groups
  • 7 completed games
  • 3 players completed all their games
  • 2 disqualified players

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Well you should complete your game in under two years , and with plenty of games with fewer than 100 moves still, I think you are unlikely to have one of the last 10 games. Considering the little two bubble on the game performance chart for players with only 2 completed represents 14 of the remaining games , and none of those games are over 200 moves yet. And there are still multiple games with fewer than 100 moves so far.

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For those of you who like multiples of 10, we are down to 150 active games…

for the remaining active games:
games with fewest moves 66
median game. 141.5
games with most moves 240

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16 days later (data as of 4/1/2026 provided by Purble):

  • 148 games in progress, 181 players involved, 46 groups
  • 8 completed games
  • 7 players completed all their games, 2 of them with 9 wins
  • 2 groups completed all their games

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