Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 08:04:26 06/24/99
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On June 24, 1999 at 02:30:42, Nicholas Cooper wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I was just wondering how often each type of ending might occur in practical
>play? For instance, KRP-KR is very frequent but what of the others? Does anyone
>know what the relative frequencies are for the various endings- let's say just
>the five piece endings. How many times does KQP-KQ arise, and what of KNP-KN,
>KBP-KB etc. etc. etc.???
>
>If anyone has a large (say 1M games) database of games and the endings key
>"Finale" or something similar (which I have only heard of), would they mind
>generating a few statistics to get an idea of the prevalence of the endings?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Nick Cooper :)
I got this from the Soltis book called Grandmaster Secrets: Endings. It isn't
exactly what you asked for but I hope it helps.
- PERCENTAGE OF ALL ENDGAMES -
Tournament R+Ps R+[B|N]+P(s) N vs B Q N B B P
same opp
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Karlsbad 1911 19 30 5 14 3 4 .7 1.5
Moscow 1936 26 26 14 9 3 3 3 3
Santa Monica 1966 20 3 9 6 6 3 3 3
Leningrad 1973 26 29 6 12 3 0 3 3
Wijk aan Zee 1975 14 30 8 10 14 3 0 0
First four Kasparov- 21 54 6 9 2 2 0 0
Karpov Matches
US Championship 1993 19 26 8 22 0 0 4 0
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