A Method for Comparing Chess Openings
25 Pages Posted: 27 Mar 2014
Date Written: February 25, 2014
Abstract
A quantitative method is described for comparing chess openings. Test openings and baseline openings are run through chess engines under controlled conditions and compared to evaluate the effectiveness of the test openings. The results are intuitively appealing and in some cases they agree with expert opinion. The specific contribution of this work is the development of an objective measure that may be used for the evaluation and refutation of chess openings, a process that had been left to thought experiments and subjective conjectures and thereby to a large variety of opinion and a great deal of debate
Keywords: chess openings, chess engines, refutation, methodology, Monte Carlo simulation, numerical analysis, probability vector, Euclidean distance, robust statistics, bootstrap
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