Chess Engine Lab
JulianPosts about many different chess engine experiments.
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How the Evaluation and Clock impact Results of Blitz Games
One area that always interests me is how engine evaluations affect the result of a game, especially when the clock is a factor.
In the past, I’ve already looked at how an opening advantage impacts results in online blitz games and I’ve al...
A Visual Recap of the 2026 Candidates Tournaments
Now that the Candidates tournaments are over, I want to take a look at some stats about both tournaments, as I’ve done previously for other tournaments.
Open section
Score
The open section was defined by Sindarov’s historic performa...
How Can Sindarov Be Caught at the Candidates?
I’m following along with the Candidates and update this page after each round with the odds according to my prediction model.
Now that we have the penultimate rest day, I thought it’d be interesting to take a closer look at the simulation...
Candidates 2026 Predictions
Now that the Candidates is right around the corner, I want to see what my tournament prediction model says about the eventual winners.
To recap the model briefly, I use only the FIDE ratings of the players as inputs and simulate the tourna...
How to Win the Candidates Tournament
Now that the Candidates is less than a week away, I thought that it would be interesting to look at past Candidates tournaments and see if there are any trends that separate the eventual winner from the rest of the field.
I looked at all C...
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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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