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Given an elliptic curve \(E\) over \({\mathbb Q}\) with the \(L\)-function \(L_E(s)\), the authors consider the frequency of vanishing at \(1/2\) of the twists \(L_E(s,\chi _d)\) of \(L_E(s)\) with primitive quadratic characters \(\chi _d\) for fundamental discriminants \(d\). The coefficients of are normalized so that \(1/2\) is the center of the critical strip. These twists are also \(L\)-functions of certain elliptic curves and their behavior at \(1/2\) is thus of interest in view of the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. On the basis of the random matrix theory, two conjectures are made and numerically tested. It is assumed that the sign of the functional equation for \(L_E(s, \chi _d)\) is plus. Conjecture 1 is concerned with the question how often \(L_E(1/2,\chi _p)=0\) under the restriction that \(| d| =p\) is a prime. Conjecture 2 predicts the relative frequency of the cases when \(L_E(1/2, \chi _d)=0\) and \(\chi _d(p) =1\) or \(-1\), for a given prime \(p\) such that \(E\) has a good reduction \(\pmod{p}\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1002.00005].