During the Carlsen – Anand World Championship match in Sochi, an average of about 175,000 people joined my commentary for each game (blog, twitter, and facebook), with a high of well over 200,000. These are the numbers for game 11 from the top 10 countries There were followers from over 150 countries overall. Norway came […]
Interesting chess stats
Chess tournament games and Elo ratingsPosted on May 24, 2014 by Randy Olson Chess is by far one of my favorite games. Ever since Seth Kadish shared one of his visualizations of square utilization by chess masters, I’ve been wanting to follow up to see what else we can visualize about chess. A few months […]
Visualization Of Popular Opening Chess Moves
A Visualization Of Popular Opening Chess Moves Over TimeGeorge DvorskyToday 1:40pm Theoretically, there are 71,852 positions that can be obtained in chess after each player’s fourth move, the vast majority of which are strategically useless. So where to start? This remarkable visualization shows how the opinions on this matter have changed over time. These graphs […]
Special chess statistics
I am trying to compile some very special statistics: World Champions, who also ranked #1 in the world, as well as winning Olympiad Gold. Please feel free to add more names if you can think of any, or correct any mistake.It is difficult to trace back to older champions as rating lists are hard to […]
American gold at the Chess Olympiad
List of American players who have won Gold medals in the Chess Olympiads (unless stated, it is team gold): Men: Kashdan (team and individual gold)Marshall (team and individual gold)Horowitz (team and individual gold)Fine (team and individual gold)Dake (team and individual gold) Seirawan (individual gold) ByrneEvansLombardyKavalekTarjanCommonsReshevskyKupchikSteiner and SimonsonWomen: Polgar (team and individual gold) Zatonskih (individual gold)Please […]
Gibraltar Stat
Monday 24 January – Thursday 3 February 2011PRESS RELEASE 29 JANUARY 2011 OFFICIAL 2011 FESTIVAL STATISTICSTOTAL NUMBER OR PLAYERS: 306 FEDERATIONS: 51 TITLED PLAYERS: 115 53 GM/ 30 IM 2 WGM/ 1 WIM 22 FM/ 3 WFM/ 4 CM GIBRALTAR MASTERS: 232 playersAMATEUR A – 30 playersCHALLENGER A – 55 playersAMATEUR B – 41 playersCHALLENGER […]
Olympiad popularity
Here are some of the top countries with visitors to this site in the last round of the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. Country Name United States United Kingdom Canada South Africa Germany Philippines Norway India Brazil Hungary Spain Italy Sri Lanka Ukraine France China Belgium Poland Estonia Russian Federation Portugal Bangladesh Guatemala Colombia Japan […]
Elitist politics
FIDE – An Inglorious InventoryBy Léo Battesti, Vice President of the French Chess Federation It seems incredible, but the work of Fabrice Touvron is a first. His tables (link at the bottom of the page) give details, federation by federation, of the number of FIDE rated players by rating classes as well as the number […]
Fan support continues for So and Hammer
Once again, the fan support for Wesley So from the Filipino community continues. Here is the top 20 countries (of 127) which follow this blog in the past 24 hour: Perc. Country Name 18.99% Philippines 13.92% United Kingdom 10.13% United States 7.59% Norway 6.33% Estonia 5.06% Hungary 3.80% Netherlands 3.80% Russia 3.80% Spain 3.80% Australia […]
Interesting Olympiad statistics
All-time Olympic records (Men’s Olympiad) * Most Olympic appearances: 20 – Portisch; 19 – Torre, Westerinen; 17 – Hook, Kortschnoj; 16 – Andersson, Bouaziz. Torre (57 years old), Andersson (57, Bouaziz (58), Hook (83) and Kortschnoj (77) are still active players. Eugenio Torre participated in 19 consecutive Olympiads but was not in the team in […]