First Move Advantage Analysis

Statistical analysis in determining if White has a consistent advantage in Chess

Table of Contents

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• Data
• Report
• Model Code
  • Cleaning Data
  • Variable Selection
  • Logistic Model
  • Significance Test

Data

https://www.kaggle.com/datasnaek/chess

To produce the cleaned data needed to run the analysis, do the following:

1. Set the working dir to the root of this repo

setwd(<< path to root of repo>>)

2. Download data from the link above

3. Make a new directory data in the root of this project

4. Move games.csv into the data directory (games.csv is the data downloaded from step 2.)

5. Run model/clean_data.R

This will create the clean_games.csv dataset used in the analysis.