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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 3, 2015 08:29 PM UTC:
I have finished running a new set of 12 trials. These ran on Chessv at four minutes per move. Since the last three games to finish were taking a long time, I stopped them occasionally and finally finished them at two minutes per move. By this time, that would probably still give them more thinking time than they had when all 12 games were going simultaneously. Here are the results:

Colorbound Clobberers, as white, beat Fabulous FIDEs and Remarkable Rookies, losing to Nutty Knights. As black, they beat Nutty Knights, losing to Fabulous FIDEs and Remarkable Rookies. These are perfectly even results. Total score: 3

Fabulous FIDEs, as white, beat Colorbound Clobberers, drew Nutty Knights, and lost to Remarkable Rookies. As black, they drew Nutty Knights but lost to Colorbound Clobberers and Remarkable Rookies. Total score: 2

Nutty Knights, as white, drew Fabulous FIDEs and Remarkable Rookies but lost to Colorbound Clobberers. As black, they beat Colorbound Clobberers and Remarkable Rookies, drawing Fabulous FIDEs. Total score: 3.5

Remarkable Rookies, as white, beat Colorbound Clobberers and Fabulous FIDEs, losing to Nutty Knights. As black, they beat Fabulous FIDEs, drew Nutty Knights, and lost to Colorbound Clobberers. Total score: 3.5

This time, Nutty Knights and Remarkable Rookies tied for first, though in games against each other, the Nutty Knights did better. The FIDEs still came in last, but they did better this time.

Notably, these are the most even scores I have gotten so far, and they result from longer thinking time than previous trials have had. Two of the longest games were Fabulous FIDEs vs Remarkable Rookies. These games seemed drawish at times but were eventually won by the Rookies. The other longest game was Fabulous FIDEs (w) vs Nutty Knights (b), which drew despite the Nutty Knights having a major piece vs. a Bishop and equal numbers of Pawns. I thought the Nutty Knights had a chance if the King would just move along the squares the Bishop couldn't reach and help out the other piece, but it didn't happen.

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