COVID, Queen's Gambit, and Average Blitz Rating - Chess Forums

Periodically over the last year I've gone to 's stats page and taken screenshots like these:- - -That picture is for today, April 2, 2021. It shows the number of active blitz players as 12.7 million and the average blitz rating as 849. How this has changed over the last year is interesting because

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