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Subject: Only 20 according to Nunn

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 13:24:30 11/07/05

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On November 07, 2005 at 16:21:40, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>Hi Christian
>I am wondering for years which is the
>correct Nunn2 Test. It is well known
>that John Nunn created at first a test
>of only 10 positions and later on made
>a new collection of 20 games. With the
>exception of ChessBase nobody gives a
>Nunn2 Test with 25 positions. Very
>strange indeed.
>Regards
>Kurt

No, there is no doubt on this. There are only 20 positions. I asked Nunn himself
in the CSS for4um and he said he had no idea what the 25 positions in CB were,
but that the set he designed had only 20 positions.

                                        Albert



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