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Subject: Re: What openings do programs play best?

Author: Jim Monaghan

Date: 05:56:48 03/10/03

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On March 10, 2003 at 08:13:54, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>Has there been made any statistic overview over what openings the say top 15
>prgrams on the SSDF list, plays the best(individually that is). For eaxample
>what opening choice on the first move is best for Shredder 7 from a statistical
>point of view? of course this could be made more complex, but should do for now
>:)
>
>Regards
>Jonas

Hi Jonas,

I found 160 SSDF Shredder 7 games on Tony's site. Here's the stats for White:

Move     #       1-0      0-1      =      %
1.e4     38      18        6       14     65.8
1.d4     25       6        6       13     50.0
1.c4      8       4        2        2     62.5
1.Nf3     9       6        0        3     83.3
Total    80      34       14       32     62.5

And as Black:
Move     #       1-0      0-1      =      %
1.e4     32       8       16       8      62.5
1.d4     38      11       11      16      50.0
1.Nf3     4       0        2       2      75.0
1.c4      5       1        2       2      60.0
1.b3      1       0        1       0     100.0
Total    80      20       32      28      57.5

Pretty impressive performance. BTW, Shredder's performance as Black in the
Sicilian is:
Move     #       1-0      0-1      =      %
1...c5   19       4       10        5     65.8

The answer to your question is 1.Nf3! based on only 9 games though. 1.e4 also
looks good, certainly better then 1.d4.

Cheers,
Jim








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