Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:59:09 12/23/99
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On December 23, 1999 at 20:45:51, Martin Grabriel wrote: >Hi, this may be off-topic, but a friend of mine who is "trying" to write a >programme asked me this: Statistically, which square at the 8th rank (or 1st >rank, depending on colour) is most likely for a pawn to queen. My request is : >can somebody wih a huge database of games, seek out games where there is /are >pawns being promoted/queened and give the breakdown of the % distribituion of >the square where the queening/promotion took place? My gut feel is that f8 and >g8 squares (or f1 and g1, depending on colour) have the highest % although >hanging pawns most often occurred at the c and d files. > >Better still, of such games, a further breakdown by % distribition by ECO and >name of computer program which lost the game would even be better. Basically, my >friend is toying with the idea of identifying the most commonly queened square >and pushing a pawn there, by among (many) other things, adopting an opening most >likely to achieve that and identitying if the opponent (a particular chess >program) makes it easy to do that. My English is not very good, I hope I make >sense. > >Thanks and Merry Christmas. I think that Dann Corbit probably has a huge database of games (I've heard) but I doubt if they're classified (I don't know). Try poking around his ftp and see what he has, or maybe he'll speak up and say "yes, I do" or "no, not me". ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/ Pete
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