Has RHP ever produced statistics from it's growing database of completed correspondence games other than the player tables? I'm thinking of things like number of exact-duplicate games (if any) that have occurred, the top 10 or 20 most popular openings, total number of 1-0, 0-1, and 1/2-1/2 results, player tables broken down by country (e.g. top 100 players in the UK for example), bar-graph of the busiest months or weeks of the year for RHP, mean time-per-move by country and by rating.
I have no really serious reason for asking, but I think it would be quite interesting to see these sorts of stats and I think it would be relatively straight-forward to automate the process of generating them assuming that all the games are stored in an SQL database somewhere.
I do agree with you that all these are very intersting statistics, but I think it causes too much servertraffic to offer things like that. So I guess this will not come 🙁
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Would these be useful as part of the statistics displayed on a players' profile page?
-Since there is quite a bit of discussion about claiming time-out victories, it would be interesting to see some data that shows this as a percentage of a players' total wins and losses.
-Another item that might be informative would be something that shows how many times a player has used the 'on vacation' option, and an average for how often it is left on.
Originally posted by mwmiller -Since there is quite a bit of discussion about claiming time-out victories, it would be interesting to see some data that shows this as a percentage of a players' total wins and losses.
-Another item that might be informative would be something that shows how many times a player has used the 'on vacation' option, and an average for how often it is left on.
Marc
Yes I agree, % of wins acheived by timeout would be a useful statistic on the player pages. Also, I think a player's mean time-between-moves would be useful (perhaps more so than than user-selectable move frequency).
And on the tricky subject of timeouts, I don't think players should be allowed to make any moves when they are set to on-vacation. I've finally given-in and just reluctantly timed out an opponent who has been set to on vacation for approx. 3 weeks, but who still occasionally made moves within that period. The fact that he entitled the game "very frequent mover" and has a move-frequency of "All day" wound me up a bit too!
Originally posted by Phlabibit The 'guys' have talked about an RHP Database.... some time.
I would like to have an FTP site where I can download all the games played here. It can start with a ziped with all the games finished until Abril 30, and every 1st day of the month, a new file, smaller, containing only the games finished during the last month is added to the FTP server. Every month, a new file is added to the collection. I think this can use minimal server resources (I don't know the possible size of the file, but I'm pretty sure that if you zip/gzip/bzip it, it becobe very small, as all games are stored in a big PGN file, that happens to be a flat text file, a kind of file that usually has good compression rates).