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Subject: Re: Question re occurrence of endgames otb

Author: Robert Allgeuer

Date: 04:32:54 01/16/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 17:51:43, Dieter Buerssner wrote:


With respect to the link with the list of endgame probabilities:
How have these probabilities been calculated? Is it the percentage of the
smallest position type reached that is counted. E.g. a game is KRPKRP and then
KRPKR, then KRKR. Does this count as KRKR only or as all 3 of them?

Thanks
Robert


>On January 15, 2004 at 09:23:29, GuyHaworth wrote:
>
>>Would be interested in any statistics available for 3-7-man endgames.
>
>Guy, if you would find statistics for 7-men really useful, I might be able to
>write something up pretty soon. Mike gave you a link for 3-4-5-6 men statistics.
>I don't have any high quality commercial databases. I have now about 3 million
>games downloaded from Dann Corbit. I cannot really remember, if the statisics in
>that link was from those games. The other alternative would have been the free
>part of Chesslib (? IIRC), where I downloaded once the database in Scid format
>and converted it to PGN (my code can only read PGN like formats).
>
>Regards,
>Dieter



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