1% accuracy??

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Knights_of_Doom

A friend of mine just finished a game and the site evaluated his opponent's accuracy as "1.0%".

Sure, the opponent played pretty terrible and lost in 11 moves, but the rundown was:

1 excellent
6 book
1 inaccuracy
1 mistake
1 blunder

I'm curious how that becomes 1% - surely one could play much worse.  Only 3 of his 10 moves were less than excellent.  Even if you throw out the book moves, 25% of the moves were "excellent".

MaddyCole

ever consider that the evaluator is pure garbage?  huh, ever consider this?

Knights_of_Doom

The programmer in me can't help trying to understand the algorithm.

mstivers

It may be that the moves have an additional score. So maybe the bad moves were exceptionally bad, and the excellent move was not judged as hard to find.

 

Moonwarrior_1

I had 30+ blunders in one game with 0.9 accuracy 

Duckfest

I like how you frame the situation. You state that, if you ignore the book moves, 25% of moves is excellent. You could also say, if you ignore book moves, your friend managed to lose the game in just 4 moves. Playing a blunder, an inaccuracy and mistake consecutively is pretty close to playing the worst possible game. Even if you find 1 excellent move, you are basically dead.

But I'm not challenging your point. There must be plenty of games available that deserve a 1% rating more than this game. I think it's fair to assume the accuracy rating is very unreliable when there aren't many moves played. Which makes sense, since statistics always become unreliable with a small sample size.

ChampoftheBepoCamp

Maybe you could provide the game? I would like to see the 1% for kicks, really rare stuff...

Knights_of_Doom
Foolsmateinfinity wrote:

Maybe you could provide the game? I would like to see the 1% for kicks, really rare stuff...

It isn't my goal to embarrass anyone.  I'll just list the moves.  White is a friend of mine, about 1450, and black is the opponent who got 1% - he is about 1350.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bb3 f5 8.Nxe5 d6 9.Nxc6 Bb7 10.Nxd8 Rxd8 11.Re1 resigns
White got 17.2 accuracy(!?), and black got 1.0 accuracy.  I don't understand either of those numbers.
The "Game Report" said: "That was an intense game". Very strange.  I don't think it was intense at all, just a standard opening followed by a couple of blunders on moves 8 and 9.

Duckfest

Thanks for posting. It looks natural enough. He can't be the only one to have played this sequence.

 

On depth 30 accuracy rating are 51.7 vs 1.1%, btw. My numbers below are based on d-30, somehow the linked analysis is at a lower depth, so values are slightly off.
If you look at the best move diff, you see book moves are rated at +- 0. So move 7 is +3 diff, equivalent of losing a minor piece (which is what happend. The second non book move was +15 (equivalent of losing Q+R), third move played is +4. Had the opponent played better we're looking at losing 20 points in 3 moves, that's impressive. Even after excellent Rd8 on move 10, I doubt you can do much worse. It's actually not easy to find moves that are worse lol. For example sac Queen on move 8 (Qg5), that's a better move than d6. So I guess the reasoning is of all possible sequences of 4 moves, this one is as far from perfect play as you can get. 
Thanks again for posting, I enjoyed replaying this game

Bruce1960s

How many points where deducted for the mistake, blunder, and inaccuracies? read as MISTAKE -3.0 deducting 3 points from your average for your mistake. Adds up in a 11 move game. Your friend can not make any of the lower points i.e. bad moves to get a 80% or better in a 11 moves game.