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Subject: Re: Have You seen this: quite unbelievable!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:41:44 01/31/01

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On January 31, 2001 at 01:20:18, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On January 31, 2001 at 01:00:18, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/cad2001/cad2001.htm
>>
>>In Gadeques tournament Deep Fritz - Shredder 5 ended 10-10. But 14 games were
>>won by white! And I thought, that whites advantage is minimal in computer chess.
>>Have programs killer books or what?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>I don't feel that white's advantage is minimal in computer chess.
>
>bruce


That is quite right. If you load the "comp-comp" CAT database in Century 3
you will see that the white/black performance is 55%/45% exactly the same
as with human-human games.

The "comp-comp" CAT database is a collection of all major comp-comp games
of the recent years, about 5000-6000 games.

Ed

• Re: Have You seen this: quite unbelievable! Jouni Uski 01:03:10 01/31/01
  • White scored 85%! Jouni Uski 01:09:37 01/31/01
    • Re: White scored 85%! Howard Exner 19:47:26 01/31/01
      • Re: White scored 85%! Enrique Irazoqui 09:04:07 02/01/01
        • Re: White scored 85%! Uri Blass 12:45:51 02/02/01
        • Re: White scored 85%! Howard Exner 11:12:53 02/01/01
          • Re: White scored 85%! José Antônio Fabiano Mendes 11:39:45 02/02/01
    • Re: White scored 85%! CLiebert 02:10:55 01/31/01

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