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On average. Some starting positions are much less balanced than regular chess.
by kelipso 2y ago
On average. Some starting positions are much less balanced than regular chess.
- xpe 2y ago>> I'm also interested in the underlying distribution (not just the average). > On average. Some starting positions are much less balanced than regular chess. Yes, I expect variation, which I why I asked. :confused-face: At the risk of over-explaining, when I said "distribution" I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_distribution What does "much less" mean, quantitatively? For each position, what is the white-winning probability if you used e.g. Stockfish or some suitably adapted tool? I would love to see e.g. a histogram where the x-axis buckets the estimated-advantage-to-white and the y-axis counts how many of the 960 starting positions fall into the bucket. What shape might it take? Lacking any particular insight, I would guess normal.