This paper studies gender differences in performance a male?dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We find that the composition of games affects behaviors both men and women ways worsen outcomes for women. Using unique measure within?game quality play, we show make more mistakes when playing against men. Men, however, play equally well male female opponents. also persist longer be...

The assessment of chess players is both an increasingly attractive opportunity and an unfortunate necessity. The chess community needs to limit potential reputational damage by inhibiting cheating and unjustified accusations of cheating: there has been a recent rise in both. A number of counter-intuitive discoveries have been made by benchmarking the intrinsic merit of players’ moves: these cal...

Background The chess game is a good example of cognitive task which needs a lot of training and experience. The aim of this work is to compare applicability of two nonlinear methods Higuchi Fractal Dimension and Empirical Mode Decomposition in analysis of EEG data recorded during chess match. We analyzed data of three master chess players registered during their matches with computer program. M...

Paired comparison data in which the abilities or merits of the objects being compared may be changing over time can be modelled as a non-linear state space model. When the population of objects being compared is large, likelihood-based analyses can be too computationally cumbersome to carry out regularly. This presents a problem for rating populations of chess players and other large groups whi...

The opening book is an important component of a chess engine, and thus computer chess programmers have been developing automated methods to improve the quality of their books. For chess, which has a very rich opening theory, large databases of highquality games can be used as the basis of an opening book, from which statistics relating to move choices from given positions can be collected. In o...

The present study explored the ability of expert and novice chess players to rapidly distinguish between regions of a chessboard that were relevant to the best move on the board, and regions of the board that were irrelevant. Accordingly, we monitored the eye movements of expert and novice chess players, while they selected white's best move for a variety of chess problems. To manipulate releva...

Chess memory has been vital problem in the field of expertise research. It has been the forefront of general skills research for decades and a large number of important insights has been made firstly by chess researchers. Djakov et al. (1926) as well as de Groot (1965, 1966) showed that there are essential differences between players of various skill levels in their ability to recall chess posi...

The rating system I entered into the Deloitte/FIDE Chess Rating Challenge, the “Glicko-boost” system, is a substantial extension of the Glicko system. The Glicko system (Glickman, 1999) is a rating system I invented in the mid-1990s in which each player is characterized at any time by two parameters: a rating, and a “ratings deviation” (RD). The RD, the main innovation of the Glicko system, is ...