Sunday, December 2, 2007

The endgame play in Movesky

I was fortunate to meet the author of 东萍棋谱仓库 over MSN last night. He offered me a VIP account in his database. I finally can check the so called 顶尖对局 in the database. The games are played in the highest level of Movesky with 30-minutes time control. I have checked with some endgame play to see in this over-the-board plays, how often do these top players, some with computer assistance, miss the winning or drawing move?

In the case of knpkpbb endgame, there are 12 incidents in the 顶尖对局 database. There are 3 wins and 3 draws hold, which means the outcome of the games matches the calculation of EGDB. In other word, the players didn't make blunder. In other 6 games, there are 5 missed win and 1 missed draw, which means the moving side missed the chance to win or to draw. These are 50% of improving space. I wonder if people study EGDB more, these kind of misses will be reduced.

With the method I mention in the previous post, this kind of survey became relative easy. If you find this to be useful, you may want to consider registering a VIP account from 东萍棋谱仓库.

2 comments:

Michael said...

the knpkpbb endgame is really not easy

Pai said...

Welcome, Michael!