What questions would you ask 1 Million Games?
I am about to analyze a million games from the Titled Tuesday Tournaments (3min games for tilted playeres) of chess_dot_com but I am not sure what the most important insights/results might be. There are around 500k games in each year and I plan to analyze 2023/2024 and the first half of 2025. But now I want to go into the actual games. So far I have in mind: 1.) How many games ended in mate vs resignation vs lost-on time 2a.) Of course a heat map of the first move (% of which piece moved with white) 2b.) And in response to the top 4 moves with white a heatmap of responses with black 3.) average time per move by title segment (GMs vs IMs etc.) 4.) % of pawn moves in the first 10 moves (I suspect GMs move more pawns when they play against one another to not commit too early). 5.) Certain meme openings? Cow, Bongcloud, etc 6.) Real openings (how many steps deep?) 7.) How much faster are Hikaru and Magnus vs the rest 8.) Biggest off-set (lower rated player beating higher rated players.) What insights would ambitious players to study smarter and more efficient to be able to compete in this format. And what would help the IM+ Players to become even more competitive? I analyzed some player stats and winning streaks in the past including some YT videos and chess_com articles: https://www.chess.com/article/view/magnus-carlsen-hikaru-nakamura-titled-tuesday https://www.chess.com/article/view/2024-titled-tuesday-awards https://youtu.be/DXj3AHEMIRI?views