Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:43:29 10/23/02
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On October 23, 2002 at 21:49:36, Mike S. wrote: >On October 23, 2002 at 21:10:07, John Rice wrote: > >>(...) >>With the exception of 2 draws, black won every game (final score, DF7 wins >>W5-L3-D2)!? I know this is statistically possible, but doesn't it seem fairly >>unlikely? Not one win for white, strange. > >Unlikely indeed, but OTOH the number of games was small. Maybe you'd get only >white wins and draws in the next 10 games. In the long run, Black should make >~45%. > >But for White's advantage: Although it's visible in computerchess, mostly due to >the opening books probably, it is more a human thing so to speak. I made an >experiment with a huge developement advantage, which no normal book variant >could provide: > >[D]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/3PP3/2NB1N2/PPPBQPPP/R3K2R b KQkq - 0 7 >A chess parody more or less. > >Still, Black scored 14.5 points from 72 games, including 9 black wins! For >example, CT 14 won with black against Shredder 5.32 (but also vice versa), >Hiarcs 7.32 won against GT 2.0, etc. It may be interesting to see results of the same experiment at slower time control(120/40) Uri
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