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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How to exploit an opponent must-win situation
I am 1.5 points clear of the field, and my last-round opponent is in a must-win situation for a prize. Is there a mathematically/statistically proven way for me to take advantage of this state of ...
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Are there any papers that highlight the problems with rating systems?
Ratings are a paradox. Mathematically they seem to dependent on other factors than ability. Yet people are obsessed with their rating as if it defines them as a person somehow.
Are their any ...
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What is the average speed in tournaments for USFC rapid chess ratings?
Rapid ratings cover a very wide range of time controls and bump up against regular (where games are dual rated) as well as blitz time controls.
What is the average time for USCF rapid games that are ...
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Is there an analysis of World Champions' games that shows the statistics of their game?
Is there an analysis of World Champion games, with the help of engines, that shows statistics like percentage of best moves played, blunders made, creative moves which computers can only see at high ...
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Are there any moves that are more popular in databases of GM games but are objectively inferior?
Usually in a particular opening position, if move A is more popular (in GM games) than move B, then either move A is objectively better than move B, or move A is equally good as move B.
Are there ...
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Why have engines not increased top rated chess players' Elo?
The arrival of strong chess engines as Stockfish, Houdini or Rybka allow top players to deeply prepare lines in openings or to study better endgames.
I would expect a rating increase of top players. ...
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Why I did not see the first-mover advantage in my game history? [closed]
I have played over a thousand blitz games at chess.com and here are the results:
I failed to notice any obvious difference between white and black. In other word, I do not see the the first-mover ...
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In Swiss tournaments, is it common to play weaker players when playing White?
I was looking at the statistics for my tournament games in SCID, and found something surprising. When I played opponents rated under 1000, 13 out of 15 times I've had White. Conversely, when I played ...
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Draw rates in classical chess between elite players?
I'm looking for detailed statistics exhibiting draw rate for elite players. I did find this and this publications, however, they only contain aggregated data for 2600+ players, and arrive at a figure ...
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Is there a low-end ELO Deflation?
I've heard often about Elo Inflation among the top chess players, meaning that a player rated 2650 Elo nowadays is weaker compared to a player rated 2650 Elo player 10 years ago.
I'm curious if there'...
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How often does castling occur in grandmaster games?
May I know how to find in all grandmaster games, what the percentage of each of the following is?
Kingside castling
Queenside castling
Never castled by the end of the game but still has the right to ...
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Is my low blitz game drawing rate at www.chess.com an indicator that I am weak in chess?
I have played 630 blitz game at chess.com and only 10.3% of my games are draw; see the diagram.
When I play black, my drawing rate is slightly higher than my drawing rate playing white. This is ...
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What is the draw frequency for 3 consecutive games (same players; amateur level)?
In Mr. Robot (TV series) episode "eps2.2_init_1.asec", Elliot and Mr. Robot drew 3 consecutive chess games. They remark it's impossible.
The odds of that are Impossible.
As far as TV shows go, Mr. ...
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In the opening stage, can we determine that one move is better than another by looking at winning percentage?
After 1.c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6, thousands of games have been played with the following two moves of white: 3.g3 and 3.e4. It seems that the winning percentage suggested that 3.e4 is clearly better than 3....
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What is the average number of legal moves per turn?
For example in the first turn there are 20 possible legal moves (16 pawn moves and 4 knights moves). This number increases in the middlegame and then decreases in the Endgame.
Are there some ...
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Oscillating Stockfish Evaluation on Laptop
I'm using stockfish-9-bmi2 on my laptop to provide me move by move evaluation of games. I've set Stockfish to evaluate to depth = 25 plys. I find that the evaluation provided oscillates move-on-move ...
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Are there statistics on the results of armageddon games at the GM level?
I've tried finding statistics on the results of competitive armageddon games played at a high level (say, GM level), but to no avail. Evidently, these statistics must exist, as for example FIDE ...
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Can an Optimal Stopping strategy be applied to search functions?
Can the solution to the famous Secretary Problem be applied to the search function of a chess engine? Rejecting the first 37% moves and choosing the best one after that,or maybe even just checking the ...
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Why are games more likely to last 60, 80 and 120 moves?
I've downloaded and parsed the king-base chess database (about 1.5 million games) and am looking at distribution of moves for games. When plotting the distribution for different outcomes, I see spikes ...
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Database program for statistics about mistakes
I wonder if there is an application that will help with statistics for my own games. Of course - there are applications (eg. Scid, Chessbase) that allow to make some statistics out of database - but ...
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What kind of statistics should I run on a database? [closed]
I have written a python script to verify the strategical rule of "controlling the center".
I have parsed the free 2.2 million games database (it takes about 5 minutes) and I have found that the ...
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What is the number of chess position for each move? [closed]
I have read some articles that chess has a numbers of 10 to power of 120. Can some one can throw lights to it:
White 1st move: No of Position
White 2nd move: No of Position
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White 72nd move: No ...
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Winning percentage in chess 960
How does the winning percentage (white win/draw/black win) in chess 960 (Fischer random) compare to that of regular chess? Are there more white wins, fewer draws,...?
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Improvement of chess engines over time
Chess engine strength has increased considerably over time due to increase of computer strength, but also improvement in algorithms/parameters.
Is there any statistics or graph out there which shows ...
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Where can I find a rarity table of chess player ratings? [duplicate]
Now it's fine either as percentage of all FIDE players registered or just as number itself (like either 1/100k players are rated above X, or 23 players rated above X, respectively). Let's say by ...
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Draws by game number in championship matches
Some commentators have expressed surprise at the two relatively bland draws to open out the most recent (Carlsen-Karjakin) World Championships. I'm wondering whether there's been any study as to ...
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Carlsen vs Karjakin individual encounter results statistics so far?
I wonder how many times Carlsen and Karjakin played so far and who won the more number of games. Any idea?
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Why is 7. f3 so ubiquitous in the Yugoslav Sicilian?
I'm a mid-level player just starting to systematically study openings, and I'm wondering why it is that after the signature Yugoslav initiation 6. Be3 by White, and the certain follow-up 6. ... Bg7, ...
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Does engine score correlate with winning chances?
I was wondering if there is a statistical or probabilistic (at least approximate) way of looking at a score of a chess position of a certain fixed engine, say "crafty version 5" for example.
i.e. ...
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Statistical Right Handedness Bias in Move Selection?
It seems clear to me that there must be a statistical bias in the move selection of master level games in relation to the natural "hand" of the move, right or left.
Let me explain. For the sake of ...
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If the Sicilian is so strong, why do people still play e4 in competitions?
1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for white due to the high success rate of the Sicilian defence against 1.e4
I understand it's fun to play different openings, but at the highest level, ...
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chess win expectancy by material difference table or calculator
Houdini Chess engine is said to have a calibrated evaluation in which engine scores correlate directly with the win expectancy in the position. A +1.00 pawn advantage gives a 80% chance of winning the ...
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Live viewers for top chess events
What is the average number of live viewers (online and TV) for top chess events like the world championship match and the candidates tournament? Are there some statistics publicly available?
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How to see average game length for specific chess opening (number of moves)?
How to see average game lenght for specific chess opening?
Is there some chess database which allow me to see specific opening game length?
For example:
Sicilian defense (average length is: 80.5)
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Meaning of move stats in opening databases
I naively thought that if I picked the biggest winning move (for example using white) in the database and kept picking moves that white would always win,
but at some point the advantage for white ...
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What features can I add to this FIDE chess application? (edits made 2/25)
EDIT: Most of the app is completed. Now all I have to complete is implementation of FIDE arbiters, a dynamic 3d plot (right now it only has 3 variables being plotted, no inputs affect it), adding more ...
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Statistically, what is the best opening?
Statistically, what opening has white won with the most?
Such as, 1.e4 e5 2?
What is the move that white makes that has won the most games?
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What's the average piece density?
In a position, the piece density is equal to the total number of pieces on the board (Whites pieces + Black pieces) divided by the total number of squares (64).
At the beginning of every game, the ...
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What is the percentage of players who are women in the sections where both men and women can play in?
I am NOT asking for the percentage of chess players that are women.
I am asking for the percentage of players who are women in the sections where both men and women can play in.
That percentage is ...
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What is the probability that a position has been played before?
When reading annotated games from GMs, I sometimes find annotations such as "This was tried by XXX in 1975 vs YYY". Such annotations are sometimes found very deeply in the game, sometimes past move 20....
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What is the average length of a game of chess with only random moves?
The famous Shannon number, 10^120, an estimated lower bound on the number of possible chess games, is based on the assumption that a typical game lasts 40 moves.
In games between skilled human ...
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What is the percent of players in the top X that are women for different values of X?
I have already found some numbers thanks to this website: http://www.ferimex.com/icc/frl.php?list=0&country=0&title=0&sex=0&year=0&old=0&cat=0&size=9&update=yes
Top 50:...
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Rating rise: luck or actual increase in playing strength?
The FIDE rating of very active chess players can vary a lot: rating fluctuations of 50 rating points are not unusual.
Is there a way to distinguish whether a rating rise/drop can be explained by ...
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What is the average age to become a grandmaster?
On average, what is the age of people when they obtain the title of international master or grandmaster? I also wonder how the age distribution looks like.
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Bishop vs Knight
I read in a book written by Fischer about piece values, and he said that a knight is worth 3 pawns, and a bishop is worth 3,25 pawns. I know that in closed positions knights are better, and I have ...
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What are the winning chances of every pieces? (6men egtb)
Is there a site or document which shows what the winning chances are of every "Specific Pieces vs. Specific Pieces" endgame?
e.g. What are the winning chances of Rook & Bishop vs 2 Knights?
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Top player with the lowest drawing rate
Which player of the top 50 has the lowest drawing rate ? Who is it in the top 100 ?
And which woman in the top 50 has the lowest drawing rate ?
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Is the number of possible chess games infinite?
This question is somewhat related to Can the total number of possible wins/draws/losses be calculated?, but slightly different.
There is a recent TV show episode that claims that there are "more ...
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In an opening tree on ChessBase, how can we fix the statistics so that transpositions are not taken into account in the total number of games?
In an opening tree (also called "opening explorer" or "openings book") on ChessBase 12, here are the statistics that we get after 1. Nf3 c5 :
So it seems that after 1. Nf3 c5 White will play 2. e4 93%...
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Is there a list of unsound openings?
Not so long ago I was looking for a comprehensive list of openings (and received an excellent answer with a huge list). Hearing a lot about unsound openings, I am curious whether I can have a ...
