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Subject: Re: WCCC 2003 - Strangely Low Proportion Of Draws

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 03:16:39 11/25/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 05:58:04, Graham Laight wrote:

>32 games have been played - and only 3 of them have ended in draws.
>
>As the standard of chess improves, one would expect the proportion of draws to
>rise - but we're not seeing this here.
>
>Best guess - there is a wide spread of playing ability between the 16 different
>computers at this competition.
>
>Here's a graph of the proportion of draws between human players of close elo
>ratings: http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/ratings/Draws.jpg
>
>-g

I'd be interested to know whether the graph for comp-comp games looks similar.
Maybe Dann Corbit can formulate a cool SQL-statement and provide a graph. :)

Sargon



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