81道場 WebシステムWins, losses and draws percentage for sente and gote in professional games
lalibee (1818) 2017-04-07 17:17I want to ask if someone knows the percentage for wins, losses and draws in professional shougi games.
World Shogi Forum > Shogi in General > Wins, losses and draws percentage for sente and gote in professional games
lalibee (1818) 2017-04-07 17:17
Excluding draws sente seems to have roughly 53% win rate. It seems roughly 3% of games end in a draw. In short games sente's advantage seems to grow (one source looked at five consecutive NHK cup seasons and sente's win rate was 56%.) Watanabe has mentioned that with shorter thinking time it's a bigger advantage to attack first (presumably because attacking is easier than defending).