Fig 1.
Percentage of draws in World Chess Championship matches 1886–2021.
Table 1.
An example of classical vs. Fast chess time-controls.
Table 2.
Summary statistics: The player with the lower cumulative (C) TPLV is declared the tiebreak winner.
For details, see Fig 4. Δ represents the numerical difference and % represents the percentage difference (with respect to the lower value) between the two C-TPLVs.
Fig 2.
TPLVs of Irina Krush and Jennifer Yu in the 2022 US Women Chess Championship games.
Lower TPLV implies better play.
Table 3.
TPLV vs Armageddon tiebreakers in the 2022 US Women Chess Championship.
Irina Krush would have been the champion because she had significantly lower cumulative TPLV in the tournament.
Table 4.
Calculation of TPLV after Carlsen’s draw offer to Caruana.
Negative values imply that the chess engine deems Carlsen’s position better as he has the black pieces.
Table 5.
The terminology used in game theory and chess.
Fig 3.
TPLV dynamics in game 5 of the 1987 Kasparov-Karpov match under different depths.
Fig 4.
TPLVs per round/game in World Chess Championship matches.
Fig 5.
Outcomes of world championship matches with 14 or fewer classical games: A hollow dot represents a draw, a solid dot represents a win for the first player, and a cross represents a loss for the first player.
Fig 6.
Outcomes of world championship matches with 24 classical games: A hollow dot represents a draw, a solid dot represents a win for the first player, and a cross represents a loss for the first player.