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Top Move 10 Board Positions in Chess

Top 64 Board positions after move 10

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Using Python do so some data analysis on the most common board positions after move 10

Intro

In doing some research on openings, one thing I wanted was to see what the most common board positions one could find themselves in after several moves into the game. I decided to look at the most common positions after 10 moves, but I could easily redo this for any amount of moves. I used the Lichess database https://database.lichess.org/ for the full database and the https://database.nikonoel.fr/ for the master's database. I used Python with Pandas to dissect these databases to sort by the most common board positions after move 10, then I build several Lichess studies sorted by White Win Rate, Evaluation Bar, and Black Win Rate.

Code

I will not get deep into the code, but it is quite simple and can be found at my GitHub page here: https://github.com/bigurb10/Chess-Top-Move-10-FENS/blob/main/fen%20to%20csv%20then%20sort%20with%20pandas.ipynb

YouTube Video

I also made an accompanying YouTube video which can be found here:
https://youtu.be/Rt-s4S3J6JI

The Studies

And here are the Studies:

Masters Games:

Sorted by Number of Games: https://lichess.org/study/2rpqmEPE

Sorted By White Win Rate: https://lichess.org/study/6y3Vd9Cq

Sorted by Evaluation: https://lichess.org/study/ThjfDBlq

Sorted by Black Win Rate: https://lichess.org/study/LcI9gm3r

Full Database(All Games)

Sorted by Number of Games: https://lichess.org/study/b3XN5I2t

Sorted By White Win Rate: https://lichess.org/study/IulVT3fJ

Sorted by Evaluation: https://lichess.org/study/yHtIaJKc

Sorted by Black Win Rate: https://lichess.org/study/oy3PDlYX

Places to Follow Me:

You can follow me on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUlStYf1szBrN9gXrpq6r9Q
And Twitch at: https://www.twitch.tv/ryvegenesis

My linktree with all of my other projects as well: https://linktr.ee/bigurb