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How long do games take?

Public forum discussion.

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#1 · Hjallti

8 Jul 2011

To organize the tournament I am planning I would like to have the results of all games of a certain season prior to the start of the season with number two higher. (Season 1 should be resolved before season 3 starts).

Therefor I would get a view of how long games take.

I would suppose that the important thing to look at is "mu + sigma" (84% of the game are finished by then).

Are ther players that have that data (in moves or in time) of the average and the deviation of the duration of games?

I would like to put them in 3 categories

where for instance: Go9 and MiniShogi are short games

reversi is middle

reversi10 is a long game

#2 · richyfourtytwo

8 Jul 2011

Have a look at the frequency of championships starting. That should give you a pretty good idea.

#3 · MRFvR

8 Jul 2011

go seems to be s very long game, specially in a 19x19 board

#4 · MRFvR

8 Jul 2011

For instance, since the beginning of this site (2002) there were only 9 Go championships, while Breakthrough (started in 2005) is already in its 14th edition

#5 · Hjallti

8 Jul 2011

The duration of championships is a good idea, but I guess wyps.asc will have e better result there than it should as it has much less players than other tourneys.