Twixt Commentator — Stats

Commentator caches every completed game in its database if it is visited. The original intent of this was simply to prevent unnecessary requests to the Little Golem website, and to keep Commentator at least partially running even if Little Golem was down. But what I didn't expect was the web crawlers that index the web for search engines. Over the years, through their random visits, they inadvertently cached over 99% of Little Golem's Twixt games in Twixt Commentator's database. I have since added some periodically running scripts to keep up the total.

Metric Count
Games cached from Little Golem 105,016
Total Twixt games on Little Golem 105,120
Coverage 99.90%

The number from Little Golem includes games in progress, so it will never be 100%, but I do feel there are still a few missing.

Games by Board Size and Result

Size Resign Connect Forfeit Draw Total
24 75,244
74.8%
6,342
6.3%
18,890
18.8%
150
0.1%
100,626
95.8%
30 1,377
46.9%
49
1.7%
1,508
51.4%
1
0.0%
2,935
2.8%
48 500
34.4%
23
1.6%
932
64.1%
0
0.0%
1,455
1.4%
Total 77,121
73.4%
6,414
6.1%
21,330
20.3%
151
0.1%
105,016
100%

Games by Board Size Since Introduction

The table above is a little unfair: size 24 has a 15 year head start on other sizes. The next table counts each size's games only from the point when that size first appeared on Little Golem, so the percentages are directly comparable.

Size Games of This Size All Games Since Then Share
30 2,935 26,852 10.9%
48 1,455 26,841 5.4%