Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 01:48:18 06/09/99
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Deriving statistics from endgame databases can be very misleading. This would not settle anything. Giving every position in the ETB equal weight is an arbitrary decision that is unwarranted. Garbage in, garbage out. All the positions are not equally likely. It is quite conceivable that some positions in a database never occur with correct or reasonably correct play. I have a vague recollection of someone (Nunn?) citing a statistic about RP+R vs R endings. Roughly the same proportion of positions were winning as in CP+R vs R endings (C=center). Quite contrary to accepted experience that the CP is much stronger than a RP in such endings. One case where experience is more reliable.
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