From: Reijer Grimbergen yz yamagata-u ac jp> Date: 13 may 2005 Subject: Re: The results of the 15th WCSC Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Need a Laptop? Get a Sony Vaio Laptop Free! http://click.topica.com/= caadtaFa2i6YsbnuqMaa/ProductTestPanel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Theodore Hsu wrote: >=20 > I suppose it's likely that most games were played with the 1min + 30=20 > byoyomi that the majority of club24 games are played under. >=20 This is correct. If you can read Japanese, the YSS results are on this page= : http://www32.ocn.ne.jp/~yss/24rating.html Even if you can not read Japanese there is some interesting info on this= =20 page. The graph at the top shows how YSS's rating changed during the 52=20 games. The graph at the bottom shows how the YSS rating changed over the= =20 years. Extending this graph will mean that YSS will be the top club24=20 performer in less than five years... (not enough data to be sure, of=20 course.) > Would you expect it to be relatively weaker with the 15min + 60 byoyomi= =20 > time control? >=20 I have no idea, but my guess would be that it would not make that much=20 difference. I think that to topple computers, long term strategies are=20 needed combined with careful execution. 15'+60" sounds to fast for me to= =20 do this with a consistently high chance of success. BTW, a majority of the losses of YSS was against anaguma. This is a=20 problem strategy for most computers because breaking down an anaguma=20 requires a long term attacking plan. Give it a try next time you play a=20 computer... Reijer --=20 Reijer Grimbergen Department of Informatics, Yamagata University Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, 992-8510 Japan Tel: +81-(0)238-26-3740 FAX: +81-(0)238-26-3299 http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/ Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Want a laptop? Get an Apple iBook for free!=20 http://click.topica.com/= caadtaHa2i6YsbnuqMaf/Amazing Computer=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= bnuqMa.= c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=3DTEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------