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Subject: Re: What openings do programs play best?

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 06:25:06 03/10/03

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On March 10, 2003 at 08:56:48, Jim Monaghan wrote:

>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

Thank you for your answer, that is great!

I think that it would be interesting to do more statistics like this, especially
to see if the different programs score very differently or very similar (which
could be a good indication of what openings work or don't work in compchess)

Maybe someone could make a program ala' elostat which could calibrate from a pgn
file all the statistics needed from all the individual entries, based on
openings and their sucess rate + a bunch of other obvious and less obvious
functions.

Regards
Jonas



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