Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 01:35:06 01/17/04
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Not sure what you mean by "minimum difficulty of winning"
... or "% of endgames required" ...
If one was to define 'difficulty of winning' in quantitative terms, 'depth of
win' would be a way to do it.
However, when do you say you have a 'win' ...
a) when you have mated [DTM(ate) metric)
b) when the force on the board converts to something else
[DTC(onversion) metric], or
c) when conversion or a P-push occurs
[DT(move-count-_Z_eroing-move) metric]
Whatever, the statistics are available (given some file manipulation) to do what
you want.
If you think that most players aim for the next successful capture, DTC is the
most natural metric to use.
Unfortunately, a high proportion of wins are 'wins in 1' because there is some
easy capture.
John Tamplin and I have studied the effect of the 50-man rule, at least over
3-to-5-man and most 6-man P-less endgames. This sort of exercise seems to be
'in the same zone'.
Results are available from a stats file at:
www.icga.org
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