com Compares the Champions: Who was the greatest chess player of all time?
Return to Compare the Champions Main Page                or Return to Truechess.com home The Project I highly recommend “Computer Analysis of World Chess Champions” by Matej Guid and Ivan Bratko which can be found here. Many of the ideas discussed by Guid and Bratko are applicable to this project. (I had already started the programming for this project when I read the Guid-Bratko paper. My real inspiration was Jeff Sonas’s ChessMetrics site.) For 15 months (from February 2007 through May 2008) I used 12 computing threads (on three Intel quad-core Q6600 computers running at 3.0 GHz) to computer-analyze a total of 617,446 positions from 18,785 games involving the world’s greatest players from Morphy to Anand. (As a comparison, Guid and Bratko analyzed 37,000 positions from 1397 games and called this “a relatively large sample.”) Guid and Bratko analyzed only the games played in the World Championships while this project tried to analyze ent
