Author: martin fierz
Date: 16:36:14 04/30/02
hi dieter, you were asking about general rules for endings like R+B vs N+N etc recently. it seems that there is a book which answers some of these questions: secrets of pawnless endings by john nunn, a full review is available on http://www.chesscafe.com/REVIEWS/books.HTM, i ripped a part and posted it below. most of it is irrelevant for computer chess thanks to tablebases, but the six-man-ending section might be interesting. aloha martin Excluding the addition of 62 pages devoted to selected 6-piece endings, the material in this second edition is virtually unchanged from the first. There are 14 basic chapters: (1) Rook v Knight; (2) Rook v Bishop; (3) Queen v Rook; (4) Queen and Knight v Queen; (5) Queen and Bishop v Queen; (6) Rook and Knight v Rook; (7) Rook and Bishop v Rook; (8) Queen v Rook and Bishop; (9) Queen v Rook and Knight; (10) Queen v Bishop and Knight; (11) Queen v Two Bishops; (12) Queen v Two Knights; (13) Other Five-Man Endings; and (14) Six-Man Endings. The “other five-man endings” are Queen v Two Rooks; Queen and Rook v Queen; Two Queens v Queen; and Odds and Ends. The new chapter on six-man endings has eight sub-sections: (1) Rook and Minor Piece v Two Minor Pieces; (2) Two Rooks v Rook and Minor Piece; (3) Rook and Two Minor Pieces v Queen; (4) Queen and Minor Piece v Two Rooks; (5) Queen and Rook v Queen and Minor Piece; (6) Queen and Rook v Queen and Rook; (7) Two Queens v Queen and Rook; and (8) Two Queens v Two Queens.
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