Author: William Penn
Date: 08:07:12 12/26/05
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On December 26, 2005 at 08:50:21, Sune Larsson wrote: > > Wrong here and wrong there - and everybody just trying to win the argument. > > Why not settle this once and for all by making a *Ratinglist for Endings*? > > There are a lot of testers out there with good hardware so I think it will > be possible. Actually I mailed Heinz van Kempen about this. Such a ratinglist > would be very interesting, IMO. > > As a start I suggest the Nunn positions. There are 10 of them but n:o 3 is not > valid since there are only 5 pieces in that position. Short description: > > 1+4 are rook endings > 2 is pawn ending > 5 is queen ending > 6 is knight ending > 7 is bishop vs knight ending > 8 is opposite coloured bishops ending > 9 is bishop ending (same colour) > 10 is rooks+opposite coloured bishops ending > > > I suggest 40 moves in 40 minutes. Additional positions are of course > possible - like "good knight vs bad bishop" - themes like "rook behind the > pawn" - "activity in rookendings" etc. > > I have played several games from NunnEnding1 - and you'll be surprised of > how revealing this simple position is! > [D]8/1ppr1kp1/p1p4p/8/8/5P2/PPP1RKPP/8 w - - 0 1 > > /S Excellent! I want to see this get started! I also have personal impressions and opinions, but enough of that. Let's test the endgame abilities of the top engines in a scientific way. Let them compete starting from basic endgame positions, swapping sides with the same position, so it is a double Round Robin. I'm not familiar with "Nunn" although I see the word used a lot here. Is there a fundamental reference/URL/link to explain it? WP
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