The insight of this article is less in describing the dynamics of chess games than in the fact that you can apply the methodology of network analysis, percolation, phase transitions etc. to recover them.
This is interesting because both chess and complexity science have a long but unrelated history. So it’s a bit harsh to call this out for “Publish or Perish”.
This is interesting because both chess and complexity science have a long but unrelated history. So it’s a bit harsh to call this out for “Publish or Perish”.