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(Message started by: omar on Feb 27^th, 2015, 4:47pm)

Title: When Grandmasters Blunder
Post by omar on Feb 27^th, 2015, 4:47pm

A friend of mine sent me a link to this article. It was a very interesting read. I thought the Arimaa community might find it interesting.

https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/when-grandmasters-blunder-a819860b883d

Title: Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 1^st, 2015, 8:38am

Fascinating. I'm astonished that patzers like myself blunder so seldom. I would have expected my own blunder rate to be much higher, based on my rating. I wonder what percentage of wins are attributable to gradually outplaying the opponent as opposed to blundering less often and/or less badly.

Title: Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
Post by clyring on Mar 1^st, 2015, 6:21pm

1% doesn't seem so small when considering the length of a chess game. Given 40 moves for each player, that means around half of all grandmaster games contain a multiple-pawn blunder. That's significantly more common than I would previously have guessed.

Title: Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 2^nd, 2015, 2:31pm

I agree, clyring. I'm surprised on both ends of the curve, i.e. surprised grandmasters blunder so often as much as I am surprised that patzers like me blunder so seldom. Thus my wondering how much of a typical Elo advantage is attributable to subtly outplaying the opponent as opposed to having a lower blunder rate.

Title: Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
Post by half_integer on Apr 12^th, 2015, 9:46pm

And no one commented on what they named their analysis cluster? (It's in the URL above)