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- Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:09 pm
- Forum: Chess Players Forum
- Topic: Chess book recommendations?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7133
Re: Chess book recommendations?
Does anyone recommend the following books for thinking, planning, and position analysis (mostly middle game)? Reassess your chess 4th edition and My system . If not, then is there any book(s) out there that is arguably better? Also, what chess regimens that is best to use to help a chess player go ...
- Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:05 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3893
Re: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces...
Great stuff !
Thanks.
At a later time I will try to summarize the data and maybe combine it with the survival data. Now I have to prepare my things though; I have to go to the airport, heading to Boston tomorrow morning...
(If they let me through the Ebola control..)
Best
Axel
Thanks.
At a later time I will try to summarize the data and maybe combine it with the survival data. Now I have to prepare my things though; I have to go to the airport, heading to Boston tomorrow morning...
(If they let me through the Ebola control..)
Best
Axel
- Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:58 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3893
Re: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces...
Hello Axel: I find this topic very interesting. I coded a clumsy parser more than a year ago (link here ) in a try to search the frequency of promotions and underpromotions by file (a, b, ..., g, h). The results of that thread are a little off since my programming skills are very poor and that pars...
- Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:33 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3893
Re: Survival of opposing pieces....
The biggest difference is calculated for the c-pawn and then the d-pawn. I bet this is because bazillions of sicilians were played in the database. Guenther This is absolutely likely; at least (naturally) we do not have an equal distribution of openings. As such, as mentioned before, it would be go...
- Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3893
....with opposing colored bishops
The biggest difference is calculated for the c-pawn and then the d-pawn. I bet this is because bazillions of sicilians were played in the database. Guenther This is absolutely likely; at least (naturally) we do not have an equal distribution of openings. As such, as mentioned before, it would be go...
- Tue Oct 07, 2014 9:43 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3893
Re: Survival of opposing pieces....
The biggest difference is calculated for the c-pawn and then the d-pawn. I bet this is because bazillions of sicilians were played in the database. Guenther This is absolutely likely; at least (naturally) we do not have an equal distribution of openings. As such, as mentioned before, it would be go...
- Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:44 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3893
Chances of survival of individual chess pieces....
Hi all, I found this on the web, which I think is quite interesting: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-chances-of-survival-of-individual-chess-pieces-in-average-games http://i0.wp.com/www.chessluddite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Chances.jpg This result is based on the Million Base 2.2 (2.2m maste...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:34 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: New Moron 4.5 Special Edition
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8184
Re: New Moron 4.5 Special Edition
.....If that court favors you, as so many times is the case when an american citizen is challenged by someone like me, from a tiny country, I have already put in red alert my horde of Serbian servants, people of very bad character, all of them. Fern, you better switch to the Crimea-Russian syndicat...
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:46 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: New Moron 4.5 Special Edition
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8184
Re: New Moron 4.5 Special Edition
I heard this version is the official trainer for the Chilean football national team, which will play against Germany in ... 2 minutes from now. I find this is an unfair advantage.
- Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:14 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: What engine is World computer chess champion?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9464
Re: Undisputed WCCC-Champion 2014
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