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Measuring Level of Play in different Endgame Types
Using Stockfish to see which players improve their winning chances the most in different types of en…
How Opening Advantages Translate into Results in Online Games
Measuring conversion rates in online blitz and bullet games for 1200 to 2400 rated players
Do Attacking Players play more Forcing Moves?
Finding forcing moves and looking through the games of world champions
How the World Cup Format impacts Results
Taking a look at all matches from previous world cups
How does the Clock impact the Rate of Mistakes?
Looking at the relative number of mistakes depending on the time left on the clock
Quantifying Piece Activity
A second attempt to calculate the activity of a chess position
Identifying the Style of Different Players
Automatically categorising players into play styles
Looking at the Quality of Rapid and Blitz Games
How does the quality of play from GMs change in different time controls?
Is Carlsen better after losing a game?
Looking at Carlsen's score based on the previous result
Norway Chess 2025 in 7 Graphs
A visual recap of Norway Chess
Quantifying Volatility of Chess Games
Trying to capture how wild a game was
How well does Carlsen score in equal Endgames?
Looking at the data to see if Carlsen really squeezes out more wins
Finding Traps with Stockfish
Can an engine figure out if there is a trap in a position?
Looking at the Quality of Play in Chess 960
With the Grenke Freestyle Open, there was now an event where many chess 960 games with classical tim…
The Women's World Championship Match in 6 Graphs
How Ju Wenjun defended her title
Quantifying the Control over Squares
What goes into controlling squares on the board?
How Well do Different Opening Moves Score Across Rating Ranges?
One of the many great things about Lichess is the database and opening explorer. With them one can l…
Comparing the Rise of 3 Generations of Chess Prodigies
How has the climb through the ranks changed?
A Visual Recap of Tata Steel 2025
As every year, the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee was very exciting. Many young stars partici…
Creating an Accuracy Score based on GM Games
How can the quality of classical grandmaster games be calculated?
Expected Score of Grandmasters based on Evaluation
Trying to find a function that approximates how well GMs convert advantages in classical games
The World Championship Match in 5 Graphs
Looking back at an exciting match
Engine Analysis of Games 10-12 from the World Championship
The tension was already very high going into this series of three games. After a calm draw, Gukesh m…