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Justin Kramer.

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Being the geek that I am, I periodically harvest my games off of KGS and do statistics on them. For the curious, latest results (as of June 2, 2003) are below. Interesting factoid: I win more often as white than as black.[1]

         games played     win/loss    as white    as black    win  loss
                                                              streaks
 Rated:  169 (83W/78B)    64% / 36%   73% / 27%   62% / 38%   10   5
 Free:   160 (78W/73B)    58% / 42%   71% / 29%   52% / 48%   6    4
 All:    329 (161W/151B)  61% / 39%   72% / 28%   57% / 43%   13   5

[1] - Neat. Probably just means you play better against a handicap than with a handicap. Wouldn't it be nice if KGS had such statistics readily available . . . or better yet if they had a game database you could fiddle around with? Aside - weren't you one of the people who 'beat' tartrate? - A Dude?

yoyoma: I think it's because the traditional handicap scheme gives an advantage to White, see Bill Spight's comment and more info in StepsBetweenRanks.

Justin: Before doing the stats, I actually thought it was the opposite: I thought I did better with handicaps than against. Worth noting however is that I don't play many games with handicaps above 2 or 3. I should try doing stats on just handicap games.

It would be nice if KGS had these kinds of stats readily available. To make my stats, I wrote a Perl script to pull down all my games from their [ext] archive and insert them into a local database, which I can fiddle with to my heart's content.

Re beating tartrate...embarassing subject. Technically I lost. I should have won by 20+ points, but I put a large group of mine into atari while filling dame at the end, and lost by 4.5. Just thinking of it makes me wince!



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