Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 03:43:42 01/11/03
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On January 08, 2003 at 15:18:18, Roger D Davis wrote: >We occasionally see posts where engines take turns playing the Nunn positions, >the idea being to give the engines an equal footing, but with some development. >But has anyone looked at whether white or black wins more often for each Nunn >position? Presumably, if white wins some 55% of the time for all openings (or >whatever the figure it, consult your database), then the same should hold true >for the Nunn positions: Given equal engines, white should win 55% of the time. > >Some large inequality between white or black would indicate that a particular >position ought to be deleted from the set, or some other position substituted. > >Roger Nunn picked the positions to give balanced chances to both sides. He's a very strong chessplayer, so I'd say that makes them validated. ;-) Dave
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