Questions tagged [statistics]
Questions about game statistics, e.g. the winning percentage of a "line," the probability of some event occurring in a game, or player statistics.
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Percentage of "playable" openings
Google says 197,742 positions are possible after 4 halfmoves. Let's call a position
playable if it is not worse than 0.5 pawn units on the engine of your choice (I use Lichess Stockfish). By this ...
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Has anyone looked at the percent of brilliant, best, book, etc moves in chess.com by rating?
After a game, chess.com lists moves as "brilliant", "best" etc down to "blunder". I'm wondering about the % of each for random selections of players at different levels ...
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The Most Frequent Checkmate Patterns
Of the main checkmate patterns which are the most frequent (in games that ended with a checkmate)? Based on chess literature the Back-rank mate is arguably the most common, I would expect the Queen ...
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How to access high level tournament game data
I am currently in need of data from high level tournaments for a project and the data needs to include information like each individual move, the engine evaluation after each move, and the time ...
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Transferring data from chess engine to statistical software
How do I extract data such as board configuration, engine evaluation, time spent per move etc from an engine into a statistical software package like stata? I am currently trying to investigate the ...
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How common are tripled pawns in chess games?
Recently I played a nice OTB game where I sacked a pawn to triple my enemy's pawns, and won convincingly. Having played thousands of games online and dozens OTB, I somehow fail to remember any other ...
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Ecological footprint of chess
Chess must be a very "green" sport, the resource demand is minimal.
But then, lately online chess is in vogue, and servers eat amps.
Any estimation how much energy online chess is consuming ...
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Who is the first woman to play USCF rated chess in all 50 US states?
On X/Twitter this tweet appeared by somebody called Megan:
Today was a historic day for my #chess life. I wrapped up the 50 states quest in Alaska, with Fairbanks Chess Club's #NationalChessDay G/15 ...
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En passant capture - statistically advantageous?
If anyone is doing chess score analysis (on say, last 10 years of competitive games), I wonder if it's identifiable how many times en passant (EP) capture could have been played vs how many times it ...
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Which officer type makes (on average) the most moves in a chess game?
I suppose K the least (endgame will up the ante for K, but not that many games
will reach the endgame) and N the most (the knight is slow in regrouping) but
I don't have access to a megabase. I expect ...
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How often do strong master level players (2400+) make illegal moves?
In the latest podcast from the Chicken Chess Club, Laurent Fressinet admitted that in his latest tournament, the French rapid and blitz championships, he made an illegal move. He asked the other two ...
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According to Wikipedia, only three women have EVER been top 100 in chess. How many men have ever been top 100?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_chess
"Three women, Maia Chiburdanidze, Polgár, and Hou Yifan, have been ranked in the world's top 100 players."
That is, right now, there are not ...
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Most combative head-to-head World Championships?
Chess.com keep tweeting about how combative this match is. 3 out of 5 games so far have been decisive, more than any other match in the last 10 years. Of course, us old timers remember Reykjavik 1972 ...
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How often do super GMs blunder mate in 1?
Yesterday (5th April 2023) Nakamura blundered a pretty mate in 1 against Caruana in the Chessable Masters:
[Title "Caruana - Nakamura, Chessable Masters 2023"]
[fen "Rb6/5kp1/8/1r1P3P/...
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Who are the top 10 youngest players to reach a FIDE standard rating of 2200?
In age order of achieving the rating, who are the 10 youngest players to reach 2200 standard FIDE rating? Prag and Karjakin obviously feature, but who else?
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