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aviage

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Registered: Oct 27, 2021
One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 12, 2023, 10:51 AM

The game database now has over 1 million entries in it. Congratulations to everyone who's played a game in that million.

I wonder if there's some way to determine who played the one millionth game?


madmike

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Registered: May 27, 2014
From: Abilene, TX
Age: 69
Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 12, 2023, 5:57 PM

i am curious, I only see 916K in the database.

watsu

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Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 12, 2023, 5:58 PM

Likely the 1M figure includes variants.

Retired from TB Pente, but still playing live games & exploring variants like D, poof and boat
aviage

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Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 13, 2023, 1:47 AM

On my home page, it says strategy center, and under that, "search and filter 1,000,249 games by position."

watsu

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Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 13, 2023, 2:13 AM

@madmike - the 916k figure is only showing the top 20 first moves by black. The non top 20 moves add an extra 20k or so games, I'd guess, based on the 937,082 matching games in the DB. The DB says it has 1,112,160 games, but that likely includes both variants and speed games. I'm taking a wild guess and saying the 1M+249 figure is non speed with variants.

Retired from TB Pente, but still playing live games & exploring variants like D, poof and boat
madmike

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Registered: May 27, 2014
From: Abilene, TX
Age: 69
Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 13, 2023, 4:11 PM

well in that case, "Congratulations to everyone who's played a game in that million."
and to rainwolf and his predecessors for keeping pente.org up and running.

invictus

Posts: 437
Registered: Jan 23, 2009
From: north carolina
Age: 48
Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 14, 2023, 4:46 AM

it has been proposed in the past that the database be 'edited'.
the reason for this being some feel the perfect game has been solved and to reveal it somehow defeats the game.
at least as i understand their point.
perhaps it has (not so sure but what do i know).
i can say that in the 1 mil+ games in the db, i prob wouldn't know it if i saw it.
lol
but rest assured fellow pentonians(?)!
i spoke w/ rainwolf and he assures me that the database has never been edited and every game entered is still there.
for better or worse, lol.
so ty everyone for your contributions!
and here's to 1 million more!

bloodied but unbowed
invictus

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Registered: Jan 23, 2009
From: north carolina
Age: 48
Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 14, 2023, 4:57 AM

p.s.
if you happen to find said 'perfect game'...
pls msg me!!!
lol

bloodied but unbowed
madmike

Posts: 139
Registered: May 27, 2014
From: Abilene, TX
Age: 69
Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 14, 2023, 5:57 AM

I am sure the game has been solved.
I dont know it and 51.9% of the 916k games of Pente in the db, tells me a lot of other people dont know it either.

Statistics
# Move Games Wins
1 L9 359,181 51.4%
2 L10 197,486 48%
3 M9 91,217 46.4%
4 M10 81,545 44.5%
5 N9 33,681 52.3%
6 N7 31,727 37%
7 M8 30,933 39.3%
8 N10 30,178 38.4%
9 N8 28,346 50%
10 O9 12,678 55.6%
11 O8 4,505 48.1%
12 O10 3,904 38.4%
13 O7 3,402 48.9%
14 O6 2,127 50.7%
15 P6 1,170 49.9%
16 P7 1,072 45.4%
17 P10 1,058 40.4%
18 P5 798 44.6%
19 Q5 734 43.1%
20 P9 628 47%
Total 916,370 48.1%

aviage

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Registered: Oct 27, 2021
Re: One Million Games!
Posted: Oct 14, 2023, 1:32 PM

There are a huge number of possible positions with pente, so it would be very hard to prove that any particular algorithm is the most optimal... but as Invictus said, if you do find the perfect game, let me know!

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