The idea that the success rate of a team increases when playing home is broadly accepted and documented for a wide variety of sports. Investigations on the so-called “home …
In this article, we study the decision-making process of chess players by using a chess engine to evaluate the moves across different pools of games. We quantify the decisiveness …
We introduce a metric to quantify the fragility of chess positions using the interaction graph of pieces. This fragility score F captures the tension within a position and serves as a strong …
Concepts of statistical mechanics as well as other typical tools of physics have been largely used in the analysis of several aspects of social systems, for instance, in politics. In this work …
AL Schaigorodsky, JI Perotti, OV Billoni - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper we report the existence of long-range memory in the opening moves of a chronologically ordered set of chess games using an extensive chess database. We used …
JI Perotti, HH Jo, AL Schaigorodsky… - Europhysics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Complexity develops via the incorporation of innovative properties. Chess is one of the most complex strategy games, where expert contenders exercise decision making by imitating old …
Chess is an emblematic sport that stands out because of its age, popularity and complexity. It has served to study human behavior from the perspective of a wide number of disciplines …
E Lappo, NA Rosenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The study of cultural evolution benefits from detailed analysis of cultural transmission in specific human domains. Chess provides a platform for understanding the transmission of …
Chess is a centuries-old game that continues to be widely played worldwide. Opening Theory is one of the pillars of chess and requires years of study to be mastered. In this …