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Bibs God Member Offline Posts: 2342 Joined: 10/24/06	Re: silly observation Reply #5 - 07/19/11 at 02:52:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	gwnn wrote on 07/18/11 at 22:36:09: It seems to me that 1 e4 players are (slightly) more likely to respond 1 d4-d5 (as opposed to 1 d4 players) and similarly 1 d4 players are more (slightly) more likely to play 1 e4-e5 than e4 players. Is it only me? If not, what would the explanation be? Troll? It's just you. Next....


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10775 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: silly observation Reply #4 - 07/19/11 at 01:25:52	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have played 1.e4 for more than 20 years and hardly played 1.d4 d5 as Black; I only do now now I play 1.d4 myself. At the other hand, when I still played 1.e4, I quite often replied with 1...e5. So far this statistical analysis with population 1.

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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: silly observation Reply #3 - 07/19/11 at 01:20:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	Complex queries can be broken down into series of simpler quests. I'm sure you can figure out how to do that. The only question remaining is whether it's worth your time to actually carry those queries out.


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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	Re: silly observation Reply #2 - 07/19/11 at 01:09:39	Post Tools	Print Post
	Not at all. Just wondering if anyone else observed this. I definitely don't expect anyone to spend any time on doing the actual statistics. If wanted to actually do the stats but I wouldn't really know where to begin - does chessbase provide for such complex queries?


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: silly observation Reply #1 - 07/19/11 at 00:54:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	You make a claim that is based on statistics without any reference to any statistical study that you, or others have performed. Are you really just waiting for someone else to look into the statistics to see if your "observation" is accurate?


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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	silly observation 07/18/11 at 22:36:09	Post Tools	Print Post
	It seems to me that 1 e4 players are (slightly) more likely to respond 1 d4-d5 (as opposed to 1 d4 players) and similarly 1 d4 players are more (slightly) more likely to play 1 e4-e5 than e4 players. Is it only me? If not, what would the explanation be?


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