Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:45:08 10/16/03
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On October 16, 2003 at 11:06:18, Tord Romstad wrote: >On October 16, 2003 at 10:52:19, martin fierz wrote: > >>On October 16, 2003 at 10:27:41, José Carlos wrote: >> >>> KRPKR is hard without tablebases, same for KQKR, KBBK, KBBKN, KRKN and some >>>others. >> >>in my last 50 tournament games i didn't have a single one of these endgames you >>mention. > >Not even KRPKR? This is an extremely common endgame in my test games. It >occurs >more often than any other basic endgame. > >Tord i would also think that that is the single most important endgame. but no, it simply hasn't come up over the last year for me. i did a short chessbase search: of ~677'000 games in the mega-2003 database with an average elo > 2300 (of course this restriction was not necessary - i wanted to exclude games of weaker players because i thought chances to get to such an endgame were smaller there) chessbase found 0.73% KRP-KR endgames. my last such endgame dates back to the year 2000. since then i played a bit more than 100 tournament games - looks like i'm about on the chessbase average :-) cheers martin
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