Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:06:58 02/07/00
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On February 06, 2000 at 19:40:18, Mike S. wrote: >On February 06, 2000 at 19:11:44, David Eppstein wrote: > >>I was noticing in the games of the ICC CCT that there were very few draws, >>compared to many grandmaster tournaments(...) Would the number of draws go >>up if the level of the players got closer to the top grandmasters? Or what? > >It is my impression that the percentage of draws already has grown thru the >years. If you look at the detailed results of the Cadaqués tornament for >example, > >http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/ > >there are very many drawn games. Maybe in this tournament the bandwidth of >strength was smaller than on ICC. It seems to me that in the early days of >computer chess, the draws were less. But I didn't make an exact data comparison, >it's just an impression. The SSDF might be able to verify if this is true. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Some data: 31% draws out of the 6435 games posted by the SSDF and played between 1991 and 1998. 34% draws out of the 1152 SSDF games played in 1999. In my tournament of last year, 36% of 550 games were draws. In my current tournament, 40% out of 400 games are draws. Enrique
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