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Engine Analysis of Games 4-6 from the World Championship
The match started with one win for each player in the first three games. While none of the games 4-6…
Engine Analysis of Games 1-3 from the World Championship
Now that the first 3 games of the world chess championship match between Ding and Gukesh have been p…
What changed in Ding's play?
Ding struggled a lot since he won the world championship last year. I don't want to speculate about …
Taking a closer look at a single game with engines
I've written a couple of posts in the past where I looked at different aspects of chess games with e…
Finding Threats and Piece Manoeuvres with Engines
How helpful are the mainlines of Stockfish to explain the ideas behind moves?
Looking at Piece Heatmaps in Different Openings
When studying openings, it’s important to get a feeling where the pieces generally belong in that st…
Calculating Piece Activity
One part I find always very intriguing about chess is piece activity. When watching great attacking …
Sharpness of Games and Players
I've written quite a bit about sharpness in the past. But until now I've mostly looked at the sharpn…
Finding Pawn Breaks automatically
Difficult concepts like pawn breaks are best understood when looking at many examples. But finding t…
Concepts Discovered by AlphaZero
Looking at a paper from DeepMind about concept discovery and transfer
Using Stockfish to automatically find Tactics Puzzles
Can an engine find a tactical puzzle by itself?
Analysing Armageddon Games: Time Usage, Scores and Sharpness
Taking a closer look at armageddon games from Norway Chess
Norway Chess 2024 in Graphs
I always enjoy taking a closer look at top tournaments, but going through each game takes a lot of t…
Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
How can an engine be used to answer positional questions?
Comparing Stats from Erigaisi's Open and Closed Tournaments
Recently, I got very interested in the play of Arjun Erigaisi, not only because he made the jump int…
Opening novelty rates of the 2024 Candidates
Who played the most novelties in the Candidates?
Testing Maia's Puzzle Performance
How strong are the Maia engines when solving tactics?
The Candidates in 13 Graphs
Looking at stats from the 2024 Candidates tournament
Calculating the Sharpness of Different Players
How well does the sharpness score agree with the human intuition about sharpness?
Centipawn Loss Distribution
I'm always interested in values and stats calculated by engines that can give an overview of a chess…
Evaluating Sharpness using LC0's WDL
Can engines tell how sharp a position is?
Using LC0's WDL to Analyze Games
I always like to look at the analysis graph of a chess game. It gives a nice overview of how the gam…
Identifying Brilliant Moves With Leela Chess Zero
One of the most captivating things about chess are brilliant moves, moves that are unexpected, beaut…