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Hi Jorg,
I don't think it was just a statistical fluctuation in 2008. There were "2,323 public matches in fiscal 2008", not few matches. Maybe it is because Shogi is really balanced?
I would like to hear some comments from someone with a strong statistical knowledge.
p.s. Small sample, anyway: http://www.iggamecenter.com/stats/game95.html
Number of wins by the 1st player (excluding quits) 285 (41.91%)
Number of wins by the 2nd player (excluding quits) 357 (52.50%)
I don't think it was just a statistical fluctuation in 2008. There were "2,323 public matches in fiscal 2008", not few matches. Maybe it is because Shogi is really balanced?
I would like to hear some comments from someone with a strong statistical knowledge.
p.s. Small sample, anyway: http://www.iggamecenter.com/stats/game95.html
Number of wins by the 1st player (excluding quits) 285 (41.91%)
Number of wins by the 2nd player (excluding quits) 357 (52.50%)
Thanks, Matteo, for digging out the reference. It says "Of the 2,323 public matches in fiscal 2008, white players won 1,167 and lost 1,156, a win rate of 50.2 percent, it was discovered on Tuesday. The previous highest win rate was 49.5 percent in fiscal 1968, and the lowest 46.4 percent in fiscal 2004." So, there was a constant black (who moves first in Shogi) advantage for 4 decades, but in 2008 the situation was reversed. Given the relative small number of recorded Shogi games, the 2008 result may be just a statiscal fluctuation. Are there more recent numbers published somewhere?
I really curious too. In the past I made some internet researches but didn't find anything satisfying. So I hope someone can find some reliable statistics. Anyway, I could find just these two pages (of the same author): http://shogi.typepad.jp/eweblog/2009/06/winning-percent.html https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/shogi-l/GixqTlUmSpI
After following the long thread on the first move advantage in chess, I am curious about the first move advantage in Shogi. The major difference between chess and shogi lies in the "decisiveness" of the two games: Western chess is rather drawish, while almost all shogi games come out as wins or losses. Is there a first move advantage in shogi (I don't know statistics, but I suspect that there is a first move advantage, although some Shogi pages claim the opposite) and how large is it?
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