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Subject: Re: Pondering ("think on opponent's time")

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 08:18:22 11/11/02

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On November 11, 2002 at 10:42:41, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On November 11, 2002 at 10:24:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

[snip]

>>Depends.  In games vs GM players, Crafty averages predicting correctly 70-80%
>>of the time.  In games vs computers, this might drop to 60-70 for whatever
>>reasons.  But it is generally > 50% for all cases until you start throwing in
>>very weak opponents, as it drops to almost nothing in those cases, for
>>obvious reasons.  :)
>
>What's that?  : )
>
>Amateur chess is better than GM chess because there are more surprises.
>
>Bob D.

Or let your computer play KRBKNN (the famous position with mate in 223) w/o
tablebases against the perfect TBs and see how good the prediction is... My
guess is: a bit below 50%...

Sargon



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