💡📝Sam Trenholme wrote on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 11:57 AM UTC:
Yesterday and last night, I had my computer play 100 40-moves-in-10-seconds games of each of the 15 ChessV-derived Schoolbook openings (1500 games in total played). Next, I tallied the results, with a win for White counting as a full point and a draw counting as a half point. The results are in percentages: 100% means White wins all games; 50% means White draws all games, White wins half of all games, or a combination thereof (such as White drawing half the games, winning a quarter of the games, and losing a quarter of the games).
Note that games lost on time do not count; only games with a definite resolution were counted in these statistics (if we played 100 games and 10 were lost on time, I only counted the other 90):
Here, the first column is the first two moves played; the second column is the percent figure as described above. I’ve grouped all of whites moved together in the above list, and have sorted them based on White’s winning percentage if Black makes his best reply.
Anyway, that was fun but this should be my last work on Schoolbook until 2010, when I start preparing for the Schoolbook 2010 tournament. I have a DNS server that I want to finish up that I’ve been neglecting this last week.
Note that games lost on time do not count; only games with a definite resolution were counted in these statistics (if we played 100 games and 10 were lost on time, I only counted the other 90):
Nd3-Nd6 57%
Nd3-Ng6 56%
Nd3-f5 55%
e4-Ng6 57%
e4-d5 52%
e4-e5 51%
f4-Nd6 60%
f4-f5 52%
f4-c6 47%
c3-e5 58%
c3-Ng6 47%
c3-e6 46%
Ng3-e5 49%
Ng3-Ng6 48%
Ng3-c6 45%
Here, the first column is the first two moves played; the second column is the percent figure as described above. I’ve grouped all of whites moved together in the above list, and have sorted them based on White’s winning percentage if Black makes his best reply.
Anyway, that was fun but this should be my last work on Schoolbook until 2010, when I start preparing for the Schoolbook 2010 tournament. I have a DNS server that I want to finish up that I’ve been neglecting this last week.