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What software do the seconds use to do deep dive research into the moves of specific players?

dmurray 5y ago
Chessbase, mostly. This part is pretty much a solved problem: there just aren't that many games for any given player (thousands). For a world championship match, players have so much time to prepare and put so much focus on it that preparing for your opponent's previous openings is not as important - he's not that likely to stick with the same repertoire for this match. There are one or two exceptions: one wonders if France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave would have stuck with his rather narrow repertoire, especially with Black, if he'd managed to reach this match.
- cool_dude85 5y ago
  >For a world championship match, players have so much time to prepare and put so much focus on it that preparing for your opponent's previous openings is not as important - he's not that likely to stick with the same repertoire for this match To emphasize this, Nepo got a draw with black yesterday playing the Petroff, an opening that, according to the commentators, he had never before played in a competitive match.
  - beermonster 5y ago
    Carlsen said it was very much expected : “ Asked again whether he was surprised by Nepomniachtchi’s Petrov, Carlsen re-states that it was one of the openings he was well-prepared for. “It was one of the main openings that I expected seeing that he played it in the Candidates and also, in the first black game, he went for a more classical approach rather than a sharp one,” he says. “So it was very much expected. Couldn’t know obviously which exact Petrov line he was going to go for, but the Petrov in itself was very much expected.” “
  - dmurray 5y ago
    Carlsen's memory was a bit better than the commentators: Nepo's win with the Petroff against Wang Hao in the Candidates was literally the game that sealed his qualification to this match.

Chessbase, mostly. This part is pretty much a solved problem: there just aren't that many games for any given player (thousands). For a world championship match, players have so much time to prepare and put so much focus on it that preparing for your opponent's previous openings is not as important - he's not that likely to stick with the same repertoire for this match. There are one or two exceptions: one wonders if France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave would have stuck with his rather narrow repertoire, especially with Black, if he'd managed to reach this match.

cool_dude85 5y ago
>For a world championship match, players have so much time to prepare and put so much focus on it that preparing for your opponent's previous openings is not as important - he's not that likely to stick with the same repertoire for this match To emphasize this, Nepo got a draw with black yesterday playing the Petroff, an opening that, according to the commentators, he had never before played in a competitive match.
- beermonster 5y ago
  Carlsen said it was very much expected : “ Asked again whether he was surprised by Nepomniachtchi’s Petrov, Carlsen re-states that it was one of the openings he was well-prepared for. “It was one of the main openings that I expected seeing that he played it in the Candidates and also, in the first black game, he went for a more classical approach rather than a sharp one,” he says. “So it was very much expected. Couldn’t know obviously which exact Petrov line he was going to go for, but the Petrov in itself was very much expected.” “
- dmurray 5y ago
  Carlsen's memory was a bit better than the commentators: Nepo's win with the Petroff against Wang Hao in the Candidates was literally the game that sealed his qualification to this match.