Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 06:12:25 02/17/05
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On February 17, 2005 at 08:46:50, Norm Pollock wrote: >Due to the availability of database software and the availability of chess games >in pgn form, I was able to do a study of chess results. I think I came up with a >surprising observation. Rather than ramble on, let me just give you the link to >the thread at the winboard forum where I posted the study: > >http://volker-pittlik.name/wbforum/viewtopic.php?t=1660 Interesting. In a similar spirit, I recently tried to measure whether the proportion of draws increases as strength increases. This is true for human players, but not at all for computers. I ran this study on the big database containing all of Leo Dijksman's WBEC games, so the range of playing strength was very wide. I did this because someone pointed at the increase in the proportion of draws with strength as supporting the hypothesis that the theoretical value of the starting position is a draw. Comparing with computers indicate that this increase mainly support the hypothesis that grandmasters are lazy. Rémi
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