Author: Matthew White
Date: 12:36:27 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 Do these stats take transpositions into account, or only the initial move? The reason that I ask is Nf3 can transpose into a Sicilian (for example) by 1. Nf3 c5 2. e4, etc. It is fairly common for transpositions like this to occur (Nf3 is a flexible move that allows transpositions into MOST openings. Matt
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