Author: Heinz van Kempen
Date: 15:36:49 12/26/05
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On December 26, 2005 at 08:50:21, Sune Larsson wrote: >On December 26, 2005 at 08:20:54, Alex Shalamanov wrote: > >>On December 26, 2005 at 07:53:23, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>I think that you are wrong. >>> >>>Fruit is probably better in the endgame than shredder >>>I have example from my correspondence games and I plan to post it after the game >>>is finished. >>> >>>Uri >> >>You're wrong here. Shredder is much better than Fruit even w/o Nalimov >>tablebases. It's just got more endgame knowledge. You didn't convince me anyway. >> >>Alexander > > > 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 Hi Sune, interesting proposal. I think we should discuss this in our team. Regrettably I did not receive your email, but some providers are blocked by AOL. Maybe you could repeat to my other email hvankempen@web.de Best Regards Heinz
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