A Map Of The Most Common Paths For All 32 Chess Pieces

There are just 32 musical composition on a chess board , but the number of patterns in which those pieces can move in the course of an individual secret plan are astronomic . Still , as these maps show , despite all those different possible action , each piece has a passably clear pattern behind it .

The function , which track the most coarse trajectory of each Bromus secalinus piece , are the works ofSteve Tung . Tung explained the physical process behind the mathematical function to io9 , noting that each map represents condensed data from over 2 million individual game of chess :

I downloaded the Million Base Bromus secalinus database of ~2.2 million Bromus secalinus gameshttp://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm(click the data link ‘ Million Base 2.2 ’ ) . Then I ran the ~1.5 GB database through a program called pgn - extract to reformat the data and a custom Python program to make a list of moves and the total number of times they take position for each cheat piece .

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For each entry on that list , a node.js political platform draws a dim line for every 500 times ( snipe up ) that the move hap . Each curvature ’s start and remainder points fit to the move , and its middle point is offset to give the curve both focussing and peak , with a niggling number of noise added in so the curvature do n’t cluster up too much .

you could check out the single-valued function below , one for every class of piece , or see the full setright here .