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A Visual Recap of the Sinquefield and Cairns Cup 2026
The Sinquefield Cup was again filled with many top players and it also served as the last leg of this year’s Grand Chess Tour before the finals, which start on the 22nd of August.
Alongside the Sinquefield Cup, there was also the Cairns C...
How Many Moves Does It Take to Reach a New Position?
Opening preparation has changed a lot in the last few decades, first with the introduction of databases and engines, and nowadays it’s often said that top players are avoiding theory to get a game.
In this post, I’ll look at the number of...
How the Last Moved Piece Affects the Next Move
In theory, a move in a chess game should only depend on the current position and not on what happened before. However, we all know that in games, players often make decisions based on the previous moves, either because they want to execute...
Comparing Different Ways to Calculate Accuracy
In recent years, game accuracy has become the most popular metric to determine how well players played in a game. It replaced centipawn loss (CPL), and is generally the better measure, as it uses the winning chances in the background, not j...
A Visual Recap of Norway Chess 2026
As every year, Norway Chess included a lot of top players, both in the open section and the women’s section.
In this post, I want to illustrate what happened in the tournament using some graphs.
Open section
Scores
As usual, the s...
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I'm currently studying mathematics and I really enjoy trying different things with chess engines. I try to see how to get most out of them. Here I want to share my experiments.
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