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By count of standard play games using the v2 download file

games count (cumulative)
0-5 3000
0-10 5192
0-15 7005
0-20 8429
0-25 9351
0-30 10031
0-50 11359
0-100 11823
0-232 11881

If you leave out the rapid play only people ( but include those who don't have a standard play grade)

games count (cumulative)
1-5 1502
1-10 3694
1-15 5507
1-20 6931
1-25 7853
1-30 8533
1-50 9861
1-100 10326
1-232 10384

Leaving out those without a standard play grade

games count (cumulative)
1-5 1298
1-10 3415
1-15 5228
1-20 6652
1-25 7574
1-30 8254
1-50 9582
1-100 10047
1-232 10104

It's not that I can't do the maths, it's that I think the premise of paying per game is wrong

Paul Cooksey wrote:It's not that I can't do the maths, it's that I think the premise of paying per game is wrong

I'm not sure the relevance of that comment to activity statistics, but charging rating fees by event is a common method of wholly or partly financing chess federations world wide. They even do it that way in Scotland.

Paul Cooksey wrote:

Bill Shankly wrote:Get your retaliation in first

Please play nice, I am back now...