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Subject: Re: a question about list of opening lines ordered by popularity

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:33:21 02/10/03

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On February 10, 2003 at 13:39:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>I am interested if someone cared to do a program to find
>a list of lines that lead to chess positions ordered by the popularity of the
>position
>
>The idea is to take a big pgn of games and to order positions based on the
>frequency of the position in games(the initial position is position number 1
>with frequency of 100% because it happens in 100% of the games)
>

This is how Crafty's opening book is done, in fact.  That is what the
"percentages"
mean.


>The list can be something like
>
>no moves 100%
>1.e4 51%
>1.d4 49%
>1.d4 Nf6 32%
>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 27%(includes also 1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 but only the popular way to get
>the position is written in the list)
>1.e4 c5 23%
>1.e4 c5 Nf3 20%
>1.e4 e5 14%
>1.d4 d5 13%
>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 12%
>1.c4 11%
>1.Nf3 10%
>
>It may be interesting to find what is the first position when program can
>blunder in the list and the first position when top program can blunder even
>after many hours of analysis.
>
>Note that it is possible also to include lines when white wasted a tempo inside
>lines that are written so game that began 1.c3 e5 2.c4 can be included in the
>1.e4 c5 line.
>
>Uri



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