Author: Don Dailey
Date: 07:13:25 07/28/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 03:53:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 28, 1998 at 03:40:14, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>I have no statistical evidence to back up this, but after looking at quite a few >>Comp vs Comp games it looks like computers programs with Black has an bigger >>winning percentage than black in Human vs Human games. >> >>If someone has a big database of Comp. games, perhaps they could check this out? >> >>Torstein > >Against stronger programs I've noticed the opposite. For example. Bruce and I >played a pretty long match a few months ago and the score was nearly perfect >for white... > >Speaking for Crafty, it definitely does better as white when playing other >programs on icc at least... I played a bunch of games between the latest Crafty and a 10 year old PC program of mine I ported to Unix using the xboard interface. The main thing I noticed was that having WHITE was a big advantage. When a program won or drew as black it was a big deal and was quite an advantage, just like in grandmaster matches. - Don
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