08 Jun '09 01:25>1 edit
Originally posted by philidor positionYes the blundercheck is a good method - maybe even better than top 3 matchup.
you're welcome.
you don't. you only have the deviation from the best line. but it's all automated, so you don't have to spend ages going through the game manually and note everything down.
The problem is that there's a lack of evidence of what is humanly possible & where the threshold for suspected engine assistance would lie with this method.
The data is already known for top 3 out of book matchup stats.
If you spent many hours carefully collecting blundercheck analysis for a suspect in, say 20 games, then send the evidence to the games mods, I reckon the mods would then have to do top 3 matchup analysis from scratch in these games anyway!
The mods may of course have done extensive blundercheck analysis on top pre-1980 CC games & super GM OTB games, but until someone does, the blundercheck method remains merely an interesting secondary method.