Check out McCooey's Hexagonal Chess, our featured variant for May, 2025.


[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]
[ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ]
[ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]

Single Comment

Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 07:42 PM UTC:
Hans Aberg:
| By experience, certain generic types of endgames will empirically 
| classified by this system. Those that aspiring becoming GMs study 
| hard to refine it, so that exceptions are covered. Once learned, 
| it can be used to instantly evaluate a position.
What do you mean by this? The result of end-games is not determinedby the
material present. There are KRKBPP end games that are won for the Rook,
and that are won for the Bishop. Similar for KRKBP and KRKBPPP. So how
would you derive a piece-value system of this?