From: Eiki Ito <eiki <at> HAL <dot> COM>
Date: 5 feb 2001
Subject: Re: Antwort: Ranging vs Static

Shogi Nenkan (Almanac), published by Shogi Renmei, has a complete breakdown
of how many times each player chose each opening variation, and how many
games were won.

-eiki

From: Alan Sawyer <amsawyer <at> BELLATLANTIC <dot> NET>
Subject: Re: Antwort: Ranging vs Static
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:25:45 -0500

> >>But is the percentage of won ranging rook games (in professional play)
> >>really greater for the ranging rook side?
> >>
> >  Normally, the ranging took side loses more than half the games.  But
> >very recently, ranging rook has been scoring well, especially in title games.
> >
> >>And if this is so, why do pros not play much more double ranging rook
> >>ames?
> >
> >     I predict that we will see many more such games soon.
> >
> >>Jochen.
> >
> >     Larry
>
> 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