{"id":40,"date":"2024-10-28T01:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/notes\/?p=40"},"modified":"2024-10-29T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T14:44:49","slug":"european-club-cup-2024-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/2024\/10\/28\/european-club-cup-2024-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"European Club Cup 2024. Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 39th European Chess Club Cup was held in Vrnjacka Banja (Serbia) from 20 to 26 October 2024. All results can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr989841.aspx?lan=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chess-Results<\/a>. <br>We have gathered opening preference statistics. Here is the report &#8212; currently we have 1574 games (all except the last boards of the last round).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>First move<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.e4<\/strong> &#8212; 722 games of 1574 (46 %) <br><strong>1.d4<\/strong> &#8212; 558 (35%)<br><strong>1.Nf3<\/strong> &#8212; 185 (12%)<br><strong>1.c4<\/strong> &#8212; 90 (6%)<br><strong>1.b3<\/strong> &#8212; 9 <strong>1.g3<\/strong> &#8212; 4 <strong>1.f4<\/strong> &#8212; 3 <strong>1.b4<\/strong> &#8212; 2 <strong>1.Nc3<\/strong> &#8212; 1 (1%)<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"m-chart-container-71-1\" class=\"m-chart-container chartjs\">\n\t<canvas id=\"m-chart-71-1\" class=\"m-chart\" height=\"300\" aria-label=\"Openings &#8212; European Chess Club Cup 2024\" role=\"img\" style=\"height: 300px;\"><\/canvas>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\tvar m_chart_container_71_1_canvas = document.getElementById( 'm-chart-71-1' ).getContext('2d');\n\n\tvar m_chart_chartjs_71_1 = {\n\t\tchart_args: {\"type\":\"bar\",\"options\":{\"plugins\":{\"title\":{\"display\":true,\"text\":\"Openings - European Chess Club Cup 2024\",\"font\":{\"size\":21,\"weight\":\"normal\"},\"padding\":{\"bottom\":15}},\"legend\":{\"display\":false,\"position\":\"bottom\",\"labels\":{\"font\":{\"weight\":\"bold\"},\"usePointStyle\":true}},\"tooltip\":{\"enabled\":true},\"datalabels\":{\"color\":\"black\",\"font\":{\"weight\":\"bold\"},\"offset\":3,\"display\":\"auto\"}},\"elements\":{\"point\":{\"hoverRadius\":7,\"hitRadius\":13}},\"responsive\":true,\"maintainAspectRatio\":false,\"locale\":\"en-US\",\"scales\":{\"x\":{\"grid\":{\"borderWidth\":0},\"title\":{\"display\":true,\"text\":\"Frequency\"}},\"y\":{\"grid\":{\"borderWidth\":0,\"display\":false},\"title\":{\"display\":true,\"text\":\"First move\"}}},\"indexAxis\":\"y\"},\"data\":{\"labels\":[\"e4\",\"d4\",\"Nf3\",\"c4\",\"b3\",\"g3\",\"f4\",\"b4\",\"Nc3\"],\"datasets\":[{\"data\":[722,558,185,90,9,4,3,2,1],\"backgroundColor\":\"#56a0e5\",\"datalabels\":{\"align\":\"end\",\"anchor\":\"end\",\"color\":\"#56a0e5\"}}]},\"value_prefix\":\"\",\"value_suffix\":\"\",\"locale\":\"en-US\",\"labels_pos\":\"first_column\"},\n\t\tpost_id: 71,\n\t\tinstance: 1,\n\t\trender_1: true\n\t};\n\n\t\n\t(function( $ ) {\n\t\tm_chart_chartjs_71_1.render_chart = function() {\n\t\t\t$( '.m-chart' ).trigger({\n\t\t\t\ttype:     'render_start',\n\t\t\t\tpost_id:  this.post_id,\n\t\t\t\tinstance: this.instance\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tvar target = this.chart_args.options.animation;\n            \n\t\t\tvar source = {\n\t\t\t\tonComplete: function() {\n\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ This deals with an issue in Chart.js 3.1.0 where onComplete can run too many times\n\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ We only want to trigger on the first render anyway so we'll just check\n\t\t\t\t\tif ( false === m_chart_chartjs_71_1.render_1 ) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\n\t\t\t\t\tm_chart_chartjs_71_1.render_1 = false;\n\n\t\t\t\t\t$( '.m-chart' ).trigger({\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype:     'render_done',\n\t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:  m_chart_chartjs_71_1.post_id,\n\t\t\t\t\t\tinstance: m_chart_chartjs_71_1.instance\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n           \n\t\t\tif ( ! 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All results can be found on the Chess-Results. We have gathered opening preference statistics. Here is the report &#8212; currently we have 1574 games (all except the last boards of the last round). First move 1.e4 &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chessnova.eu\/runotes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}