Will the things listed show up in any of the 14 games played by Ding Liren in the Tata steel 2024 tournament, excluding tiebreaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Steel_Chess_Tournament_2024 It runs Jan 12-28 2024

We include just Ding's games, but moves by either player are both counted.

Only the 1st 14 (or fewer) games, to make it easier to estimate. I wish we were guaranteed 14 total games; I'd rather run the risk of it ending early than prepare to do some difficult interpolation, so we'll just use as many of the non tiebreak 14 games as they actually play.

For the same reason we do not count tiebreak games. That would distort estimation too much until the exact time.

If he plays at least 9 games to a normal result, we will not NA. If he drops out before finishing 9 games, I will NA and we will be sad, but we will try again, since globally this type of dropout is very rare. If Ding tries to play but other people NA and Ding ends up not playing 9 games, we also will NA.

Rules and explanations for the in-game terms

• By "points" I mean the traditional (~inaccurate) point heuristic: 1 point per pawn, 3 points per bishop or knight, 5 for a rook, 9 for a queen. Because of complexity, I do not currently use anything related to engine's "points of advantage estimation" in this market.

• Bishop and knight means this endgame on board: b+k+possibly pawns vs n+k+possibly pawns, with at least one pawn

• There is no "Ding POV"; so if the claim is "10% for each win" it does NOT mean "for each Ding win" - it means a win outcome for the game.

• "Piece" means any chess piece. I don't use the meaning "a knight or a bishop" here, for simplicity

• For questions which mention Pawns dying, they are considered to die when promoting

• For questions which mention "survival" we do mean linear personal survival. i.e. if a queen is captured and then the player gains another via promotion, then the game ends, you would not say that the queen survived. It was captured.

• Knights on the rim means a knight on the a or h file.

• Strictness: if the claim is we get to a "mate with bishop and knight" it means we really need that on the board. If it's B+N+1 pawn+K vs K, and the person with B+N just has to take the pawn, but the opponent resigns, that's gotta be a NO since it didn't appear on board. This isn't ideal, but in general I'm attempting to avoid "implied" positions here to make judging possible.

• I know it's very annoying, but if they shake hands on a draw 1 move before an official stalemate happens, that means the stalemate didn't happen. I wish we could resolve this "ends early" ambiguity but I don't see a way now. Open to suggestions.

• "self-capture chess" aka "capture anything". https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/28487/is-there-a-name-for-a-chess-variant-where-you-are-allowed-to-capture-your-own-pi Note that if the game mode switches, the defender can also capture anything to get out of check. So be careful when evaluating this.

This market is an early, test version of a similar megamarket for the 2024 world chess championships, which is here:

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