From: Chiaki Ito <shogi <at> MAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 2 feb 2001
Subject: Re: Antwort: Ranging vs Static

i have also seen such statistics somewhere on shuukan shogi.  dont they
have it once every year?

chiaki

At 23:12 01/02/01 -0500, you wrote:
> At 04:25 PM 2/1/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Has there been a breakdown of who does better in each game type as either
> black or white?
> >I know that usually it is around 51% : 49% but do these ratios change
> depending on whether double static, static vs ranging (both
> >ways around) and double ranging?
> >Alan
> >
>      I have seen such statistics for individual years in the past, but not
> recently.  The traditional view, presumably based on actual results, is
> that ranging rook is more suitable for the second player because it was
> considered primarily defensive in nature.  I believe that in double static
> games, the first move feels more significant, and probably the statistics
> favor the first player by more than the overall average.  There are
> normally not enough double ranging games for such statistics to be very
> meaningful.
>      However recently the ranging rook has become more of an offensive
> strategy, at least when the static side avoids a quick attack.  Perhaps for
> this reason, the first move is also starting to mean more in static vs.
> ranging games, and therefore ranging rook is now seen almost as frequently
> for the first player as for the second.  All of this is primarily due to
> the influence of Ryu-O Fujii.
>
>      Larry
>