🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Mar 28, 2015 04:39 PM UTC:
In order to put data behind what I was saying, I ran Chess with Different Armies on Zillions of Games at 2 seconds per move 12 times, once for each combination of different armies against each other. These are the results:
Colorbound Clobberers (W) beat Fabulous FIDEs and Nutty Knights, drawing with Remarkable Rookies.
Fabulous FIDEs (W) beat Remarkable Rookies and Nutty Knights, losing to Colorbound Clobberers
Nutty Knights (W) drew games with Remarkable Rookies and Fabulous FIDEs, losing to Colorbound Clobberers
Remarkable Rookies (W) beat Fabulous FIDEs and Nutty Knights, drawing with Colorbound Clobberers
Giving one point for a win, half a point for a draw, here is how they did:
Colorbound Clobberers: 5 4.5
Remarkable Rookies: 4.5
Fabulous FIDEs: 2.5 2
Nutty Knights: 1
These results overturn my initial estimations. It may be that I overestimated endgame values and underestimated the value of mid-game tactics. But this is only one set of trials, and at two seconds a move, there is still room for bad moves. I'll do more trials later with longer periods of time to move.
In order to put data behind what I was saying, I ran Chess with Different Armies on Zillions of Games at 2 seconds per move 12 times, once for each combination of different armies against each other. These are the results:
Giving one point for a win, half a point for a draw, here is how they did:
54.52.52These results overturn my initial estimations. It may be that I overestimated endgame values and underestimated the value of mid-game tactics. But this is only one set of trials, and at two seconds a move, there is still room for bad moves. I'll do more trials later with longer periods of time to move.