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Subject: Re: Gentlemen please...

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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