Exact, Exacting: Who is the Most Accurate World Champion?

I did something similar (in German though), finding some trivia in all of the World Championship matches. Perhaps a fun playlist to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr60ZB1eZ88&list=PLc7puyNvVDqx0JWjecRGtOIQ3Ih2NDDZR. There is more to come throughout the current duel.

is really amazing how many funboys is out there. even in post like this

Brilliant article. The topic isn’t exactly flashy but it’s been a very enjoyable read nonetheless. Great writing worthy of the effort put into the research. While the absolute result is just confirming a natural long term trend everybody suspected, it’s interesting to have it put into historic context. Learned about the 1984 match being aborted and how far ahead of his time Capablanca was through that chart. Off I go watching Finegold‘s Capablanca spotlight in the „great players of the past“ series.

@manyways-play said in #52:
> I did something similar (in German though), finding some trivia in all of the World Championship matches. Perhaps a fun playlist to watch:
> . There is more to come throughout the current duel.
I think you forgot to add the link

As many people have touched upon, I feel that the ACPL is an imperfect measure of how "well" players have played, as opposed to accurate. It favors games where nothing much happened over very sharp ones because it would be much more of a feat to replicate such a super low ACPL in a Najdorf, where players are at some point on their own, as opposed to a position where both sides' plans are well trodden out. Also, a computer might regard it suboptimal to transform into a winning endgame, rather than continue sacrificing and mate in 13

Thanks for your amazing analysis. Do you think that shorter time controls should at least try to spice things up? Maybe if both players had 90 minutes with no increment they would be forced to play more decisively? Perhaps this is better than this entire ultra-conservative match going to the tiebreak phase?

What's the bottom line?

@Korniliousim said in #59:
> What's the bottom line?
Negative or even complex ACPL values I guess