Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 00:44:51 05/14/02
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On May 13, 2002 at 16:52:20, Jonathan Lee wrote: > Only 2 games (that I know of) has castled queenside and the comp. lost; > they are (Piket vs. Junior 5.6 GHZ) & (Wiel vs. Fritz 300 MHZ). > > The rest computer has castled kingside (almost 91 percent). > > 73 percent of the lost games are both human & comp. castled kingside. And, in other news, scientists announced that drinking milk is hazardous to the health. "We found that over 99% of people who died before the age of 35 had drunk milk at some time in their lives", said Dr Dodge E. Statistic. Perhaps 90% of *all* computer-v-grandmaster games feature the computer castling kingside. If so, then it would be no surprise that 90% of *lost* computer-v-grandmaster games do so too. It would be more interesting to know what proportion of *all* computer-v-grandmaster games in which the computer castles kingside are lost, and the same for games where the computer castles queenside or not at all. Note that even if it turns out that computers do lose more games when they castle kingside, making them do so less isn't necessarily going to help. The alternative to castling kingside in any given position is likely to be not castling at all... -- g
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