The Candidates in 13 Graphs - by Julian - Chess Engine Lab
Recently I’ve written about various ways to use chess engines in order to get an overview of a game or individual players. Now that the Candidates tournament is over, I thought that it might be interesting to look at this tournament. I certainly wasn’t disappointed.
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One thing that often makes or breaks a tournament is holding worse positions. Therefore I looked at the number of games where each player was significantly worse (more than a -1 disadvantage) and compared it to the number of games they’ve lost.
It’s amazing that Gukesh was only clearly worse in one game (his loss against Firouzja). This shows how well he played. It’s also impressive that Nepomniachtchi was clearly worse in 6 games, but hasn’t lost any of them.
This plot shows that Caruana didn’t use his chances as effectively as others. Again, it’s amazing how well Nepo utilised all his chances.
