Chess Novelties

Stats

Game stats
Top novelties by games featured in TWIC
# Novelty Count
1 11…Be7 in Grigoriants,S RUS – Ciric,Pavle 7
2 10.Be4 in LCZero 0.31-dag-c93c6a8-BT4-61 – Stockfish dev-20250118-8e3e22b 6
10…Nd7 in Dima,Ioan-Radu – Parligras,M 6
4 11…Nxg3 in Diaz Perez,Michel Alejandro – Puranik,A 5
11.O-O-O in Praggnanandhaa,R – Vachier Lagrave,M 5
8.exd5 in Dubov,Daniil – Sankalp,Gupta 5
9.Bf4 in Giri,A – Karthikeyan,M2 5
6.Qe2 in Maurizzi,MarcAndria – Deac,Bogdan-Daniel 5
9 11…d4 in Fressinet,L – Pasztor,Balazs 4
9.dxe5 in Suleymanli,Aydin – Gharibyan,Mamikon 4
14…b6 in Kejna,Piotr – Ilinca,Felix-Antonio 4
8.b3 in Giri,A – Madaminov,Mukhiddin 4
11…g6 in Niemann,Hans Moke – Perez Ponsa,F 4
12.Bxe4 in Narayanan,SL – Martirosyan,Haik M. 4
9.c3 in Durarbayli,Vasif – Todev,Simeon 4
13.a4 in Albertini,L – Chekletsov,Ilya 4
11.Na4 in Bartel,Mat – Dau Khuong Duy 4
Player stats
Top players by novelties played in the archive
# Player Count
1 Caruana,F 13
2 Nakamura,Hi 12
Erigaisi,Arjun 12
4 Nepomniachtchi,I 11
5 Giri,A 10
Sarana,A 10
7 Niemann,Hans Moke 9
8 LCZero 0.31-dag-c93c6a8-BT4-61 8
Praggnanandhaa,R 8
So,W 8
Ply stats
Distribution of the move number
White recorded 370 novelties, compared to 370 for Black. The mean and median values for White are 10.87 and 10 respectively, while for Black they are 9.91 and 10. Across all novelties, the mean and median are 10.39 and 10.
ECO stats
Distribution of the ECO code