Alice Lee's chess, by the numbers
October 16, 2026 · 297 games: the last 200 blitz on chess.com, October 2025 to October 2026, and 97 classical, 2024 to 2026
Lee's last 200 blitz games on chess.com and 97 classical games, every move checked by Stockfish, counted the way anyone's games are. Here is what the count found.
Lee won the 2026 Women's Speed Chess Championship, beating Hou Yifan in the final, took gold on board 2 at the 2026 Olympiad, and in March 2026 became the first woman to pass 3000 on chess.com, in bullet. At the 2026 U.S. Women's Championship in St. Louis they led after five rounds; of the round-5 win over Tatev Abrahamyan: "Once it got to the endgame, I thought it was very pleasant," Lee said (chess.com's round-5 report, October 14, 2026). Rachael Li beat them the next day.
This page counts how they play: their last 200 blitz games on chess.com and 97 classical games from the Olympiads, the Cairns Cups and the Washington and Charlotte norm events, every move checked by the engine, with the same questions a club player's games get asked.
How they play
Every player gets one of four profiles from two measures: how often they force matters with a check or a capture, against what the position asks for, and how rarely one of their pieces is left loose. Lee's pieces are rarely loose (87 of 100 in blitz, 95 in classical; the line is at 64). On forcing they sit just over the line in blitz at 54, the Striker, as Mishra does, and right on it in classical at 50. The other blitz scores: closing 86, accuracy 79, recovery 55; in classical, accuracy 89 and closing 95.
1.Nf3 in blitz, 1.d4 in classical.
85% of 98 blitz games as White opened with Nf3
As White in blitz, Lee opened with the knight, 1.Nf3, in 83 of 98 games; 1.g3 five times, 1.e4 and 1.d4 four each. No other player counted this week leads with the knight that often: So, the only other, plays it 41% of the time. In classical the first move changes: 1.d4 in 34 of 51 games, 1.Nf3 in 15, and the games go most often into the Queen's Gambit Declined (14, scoring 75%).
Once clearly winning, they finish it.
95% of decisive advantages converted in classical
In 97 classical games Lee reached a decisive advantage 41 times and won 39; the other two were drawn, none lost. In blitz, 94 of 109 (86%), with 12 lost. Five moves in the 97 classical games cost 30 points of winning chances or more.
41 of 65 blitz losses had no blunder in them.
41 of 65 blitz losses had no blunder in them
Of 65 blitz losses against people, 41 have no single move that cost 30 or more points of winning chances: outplayed a little at a time, 63% of the time (Carlsen 54%, Liang 77%). In classical it is 13 of 17. The blitz is played at the top of the women's field: a median opponent of 2880, with 146 of 200 games within 100 points (55%).
In classical, the Black games are the harder half.
0.68 points a game as White in classical, against 0.54 as Black
In 97 classical games Lee scores 0.68 points a game as White and 0.54 as Black. The first move is worth about 0.05 in most players' games, so part of the gap is their own, and it is made of losses: 12 of 46 games as Black were lost (26%), 5 of 51 as White (10%). As Black, 1…e5 and 1…c5 share the answers to 1.e4 (15 and 13 of 29). Carissa Yip, their Olympiad teammate, has the opposite shape.
The full reports
- Lee's blitz report
200 blitz games (mostly 3+0) on chess.com as powerofapoint, October 2025 to October 2026: 103 wins, 29 draws, 68 losses. Download the games (PGN) - Lee's classical report
97 classical games, 2024 to 2026: the Olympiads of 2024 (10) and 2026 (10), the Cairns Cups of 2025 and 2026 (9 each), the Washington International 2024 and 2025, the DC International, the Charlotte norm events, Cornerstone Holidays, the Women's World Cup 2025 and the American Cup 2026, from Lichess's broadcasts. 39 wins, 41 draws, 17 losses. Download the games (PGN)
Each report opens as a deck of slides, one finding to a slide, with the positions behind every number. A blunder is a move that cost 30 or more points of winning chances; winning chances are the engine's estimate of how likely a player is to win, from 0 to 100.
How this was measured
Plysight analyzes games the same way for everyone: Stockfish evaluates every move, and the findings are counted from those evaluations. The reports compare a player with others at their rating where a fair comparison exists; at Lee's rating there is none, so those lines are left out. Advice lines, written for a player reading their own report, are left out too. The six house words the reports use are defined on each report's last slide.
Blitz games from chess.com's public archive of powerofapoint; classical games from Lichess's broadcasts, among them the 2026 Cairns Cup. Plysight is independent of chess.com, Lichess and Lee. Lee's FIDE profile. Published October 16, 2026; updated October 16, 2026.
Piece art by Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0.