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Subject: Re: impact of early queen exchange on performance

Author: Mike S.

Date: 14:26:47 10/09/02

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On October 09, 2002 at 16:58:46, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On October 09, 2002 at 15:36:13, Mike S. wrote:
>>(...)
>>Percentages, based on a large comp-comp database:
>>
>>Engine          | #Games   total  W    B  | total eQE* W/eQE   B/eQE
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Fritz 7         |  784      69%  72%  65% | 59% (#57)   53%     67%
>>Chess Tiger 14  |  850      66%  71%  62% | 72% (#71)   73%     71%
>>Shredder 6/-P.  |  743      61%  65%  57% | 58% (#58)   63%     53%
>>Junior 7        |  799      55%  58%  53% | 41% (#60)   25% !   56%
>>Crafty 18.x     |  741      48%  48%  47% | 51% (#52)   51%     52%
>>
>>*) "eQE" = early queen exchange (within the first 10 moves)

>(...)
>Like I indicated in my other post, you can't really draw any reasonable
>conclusions from these statistics. Too many variables are unaccounted for.

The figures *themselves* are the information (and don't require
interpretations/assumptions at first). IOW, factual like: Junior 7 scored 55% in
that databse in total, and 41% when queens were exchanged early.

So unless somebody finds another large game collection which gives much
different figures, I draw the conclusion that Junior 7 achieves a much worse
score without queens, at least with white (58%/25%). Isn't that reasonable?

But of course the next thing you think about is: What *could* be the reason?
There are i.e. testsuite results which indicate that Tiger 14 and Crafty 18
indeed are relatively better in the endgame, compared to their other strengths,
and for Junior 7 vice versa.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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