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George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 07:31 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Statistics. In 'Finished Games' for all 4 years of the Game Courier, counted quickly by hand so being within +/-2, there are: *Shogi* 200, *FRC* 80, Pocket Mutation 62, *Xiangqi* 52, **Chess** 40, CDA (36+4)= 40, Moderate Progressive 35, 4-Way 30, Ultima 29, Falcon Chess (23+2)= 25, Rococo (18+6)= 24, Alice 24, Chu Shogi 24, Shatranj 23, Grand 21, Anti-King 21, Omega 20...(They start bunching up near 20 decisive.) Maybe Moderate Progressive, 4-Way, Ultima, and Falcon Chess each show not so valid number because of specialists Stephen Stockman, Stephen Stockman, Matthew Montchalin, and George Duke respectively playing most of theirs completed. The first real variant, Pocket Mutation, would reach 300 game scores after 20 years at the rate. Only 300 games of P.M. or Rococo after supposed 12 or 20 years would not really establish that serious opening repertoires yet. However, Ultima's several hundred eventually might amplify other sources' records of Ultima games back to 1960's. And Alice may have small inventory of old ones too to add together. Of course, *FRC* has tens of thousands, and *Shogi*, Xiangqi, and Chess so many millions that the 100 or 1000 more generating here the first quarter century do not matter much. Those four games'(all hundreds years old) openings, and novelties, would tend to repeat thematically, if only rarely exact positions after 11 to 15 moves. Even FRC(Fischer's 1996 announcement the latest update of invention actually out of the 1820's) from differing initial arrays occasionally reaches positions already known -- exactly the same as another score's previously played and analyzed from that point. (In FRC itself, merely transposing Queen and King, or Bishop and Rook surprisingly devolves once in a while to the same-positioned game (of Chess or FRC) after some 8/12/16 moves, it has been found.)

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