Tool to determine best game in a list of pgn files ?

Hi,

I'd like to know if such tool exists. Is there a metric to compare the overall quality of two games ?

Thx
JCLL

Define „best“ then we‘ll see.

Shortest win is best because Power = Work / Time.

There is the average centipawn loss

@CM Sarg0n : sure it's hard to define "best". My question is exactly that. Wouldn't it be interesting de refine a formula that includes other parameters (time, movements, turnarounds, danger, etc) ?

@jcll what do you want exactly ?

@nh78 : I am curious to know if the chess community can compare the overall quality of two games. I'd like either a formula to quantify the quality of a game, or an existing tool to sort a list of games.

Me again. I think that the evolution of centipawn loss in a game is enough for me. Thx anyway.

@jcll Of course the chess community can compare the quality of two games and make a subjective decision.

An automated but not ideal solution would be #3. As you already said, elo of players and thinking time is also a criteria.

I dont know a software which sorts pgn game lists based on this criteria but it should not be too difficult to implement this with a software like eg python-chess. You can read PGNs with it and you can communicate with chess engines, you dont need more.

Quality of Play Index could be interesting too: chess-db.com/public/research/qualityofplay.html

That's more used to quantify players though... but maybe it's worth trying on single games?

Not sure how good centipawn would be, as we have seen objectively bad games what go on for 80+ will have a low centipawn loss because of a long drawish endgame.