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Subject: Re: A Statistical Study of Chess Results

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 09:17:59 02/17/05

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On February 17, 2005 at 11:37:44, Norm Pollock wrote:

>On February 17, 2005 at 10:47:26, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>I would be interested in how the draw % is affected by game length too.
>
>Hi Ricardo,
>
>As you asked, I included the draw % into the study. Please re-visit the above
>link and you will find the new results posted.

Thanks. Very interesting. My perception had been that heading for an endgame is
good way to sharpen the struggle, but apparently I was mistaken. I guess my
experience simply reflects that I'm relatively stronger in the endgame and this
has skewed my perception. At least your study shows that I'm not giving anything
away scoring%-wise with my partiality to endgames.



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