Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 10:28:00 02/18/05
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On February 17, 2005 at 09:12:25, Rémi Coulom 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 > >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 Viz. grandmaster "laziness", a good control would be to repeat the study using results from postal chess. I would suspect that's White's advantage would be even higher. -- Walter
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