In the game of chess, there are three conventional phases of the game; opening, middle game, end game.
Opening is crucial to win a game of chess and there are many openings that have been discovered. Each of these openings have different implications. Hence we want to know if a player should open with the opening moves that is the most popular among winners or the moves that lead to the most win percentage?
On the whole we want to know...
"How to Open?"
We have data of around 20000 chess games with the opening move of each game and the piece color of the winners. Using this we try to determine the top 20 openings that give the best win percentage for a color piece and the 20 most used opening moves by the winning players.
Out of all the games that have been won, white won 52.3% games whereas black won 47.7% of the games
This visualization also follows Typographic emphasizes [1] to highlight win percentage of white and black and Color mappings with white representing white winners and grey representing black winners.
References
[1] Hullman, Jessica, and Nick Diakopoulos. "Visualization rhetoric: Framing effects in narrative visualization." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 17.12 (2011): 2231-2240.