Endgame statistics with fantasy pieces
Dave McCooey has carried out an extensive computer analysis of endgames with two kings, and two pieces, on an 8 by 8 chessboard, that involve at least one fantasy chess piece, taken from a set. Here, you find what he found.Also, I asked Dave about the endgames with two kings and one fantasy piece. His answer to this question can be found at the end of this file.
See also:
- Endgame statistics for three pieces, by Dave McCooey.
Here are the endgame summaries for all possible 2-piece endgames on an 8x8 square chessboard involving at least one fantasy piece from the following set:
- Amazon (symbol = A)
- Moves like a Queen or a Knight
- Chancellor (symbol = C)
- Moves like a Rook or a Knight
- Pegasus (symbol = G)
- Moves like a Bishop or a Knight
- Knightrider (symbol = I)
- Moves like a Knight except that it may continue moving in a straight line through unoccupied squares, each a Knight's move from the last and in the same direction away from the starting square.
- Camel (symbol = L)
- Moves to any of the 8 squares that are at the opposite corner of a 2-by-4 rectangle from the starting square. It hops from square to square like a Knight. This piece is restricted to a single color (like a Bishop is).
- Zebra (symbol = Z)
- Moves to any of the 8 squares that are at the opposite corner of a 3-by-4 rectangle from the starting square. It hops from square to square like a Knight. This piece always moves to a square of the opposite color (like a Knight does).
- Wazir (symbol = W)
- Moves like a Rook, but only one square at a time.
- Ferz (symbol = F)
- Moves like a Bishop, but only one square at a time.
Definitions used in the statistics:
- Unique Legal Positions:
- Each legal position is one of either 4 or 8 equivalent positions due to rotations and/or reflections. If all pieces are on a long diagonal, then the number is 4. Otherwise it is 8. The Unique Legal Positions considers a set of equivalent positions as a single position.
- WHITE win:
- WHITE can force a win.
- BLACK win:
- BLACK can force a win.
- Simple draw:
- The weaker side can force a simplification of the position (i.e. by capture), resulting in a simplified position which, of course, must be a draw.
- Perpetual check:
- The weaker side cannot force a simplification but can nevertheless force a sequence of positions in which the stronger side cannot escape being checked without either losing or allowing simplification.
- Fortress draw:
- The weaker side can force neither a simplification nor a perpetual check but can nevertheless hold the draw.
- Longest win:
- The maximum number of half-moves that it can require to force a win.
- The Pegasus is better than the Rook, although the KGvKR endgame is a draw in general.
- The Pegasus is closer in strength to the Rook than to the Chancellor.
- The Queen does not beat the Pegasus in general.
- The KAvKC endgame has 23 fortress draws. These positions are
"reverse perpetual checks" where the strong side (i.e. Amazon)
must keep checking the weak side in order to prevent the weak
side from either forcing a simplification or getting its own
perpetual check! Here are three examples:
- WHITE: Kd6, Aa7 BLACK: Kg6, Ch7 (WHITE to move)
- WHITE: Kc8, Ab8 BLACK: Kc2, Cd5 (WHITE to move)
- WHITE: Kc8, Ah2 BLACK: Kb3, Ce4 (WHITE to move)
- A Rook does not beat a Camel in general, but it wins considerably more often than it does against a Bishop or Knight. The longest win can take 35 moves (70 halfmoves).
- A Rook beats a Zebra.
- A Zebra seems to be almost universally weaker than a Camel, but not by much, of course. This is somewhat unexpected, because the Zebra can reach all 64 squares and the Camel cannot.
- A Rook beats a Ferz, which is expected.
- A Rook beats a Wazir, which is expected. This endgame contains
two sets of fortress draws illustrated by the following positions:
- Set #1: WHITE: Kc8, Rb8 BLACK: Ka7, Wa6 (BLACK to move)
- Set #2: WHITE: Kd8, Rc8 BLACK: Kb7, Wb6 (BLACK to move)
- A Pegasus beats a Knightrider, and it can take as long as 57 moves (113 halfmoves) to win.
- Two Knightriders can checkmate a lone King.
- A Knightrider and any piece from the set {N,L,Z,W,F} can checkmate a lone King.
- A Bishop and any piece from the set {L,Z,W,F} can checkmate a lone King, as long as the Camel or Ferz (in such a case) is on a color different than the Bishop's.
- The KIFvK endgame has 526 fortress draws, i.e. positions where the lone King can keep the pieces occupied forever. All of these positions have the Knightrider in the corner or one rook-move next to the corner while the Ferz is stuck being protected by the Knightrider. The Black King keeps threatening the Ferz, and the White King is too far away to help.
- The KBLvK(d) endgame has 15 fortress draws, i.e. positions where
the King can keep the pieces occupied forever. They are divided
into two sets of positions:
- Set #1: WHITE: Kb7, Be5, Le8 BLACK: Kg8 (BLACK to move)
- Set #2: WHITE: Kd7, Be3, Lg6 BLACK: Ke5 (BLACK to move)
- The KBWvK endgame has exactly 2 (unique) fortress drawn positions
and here they are:
- WHITE: Kd5, Bc8, Wa8 BLACK: Kc7 (WHITE to move)
- WHITE: Kd5, Ba6, Wa8 BLACK: Kc7 (BLACK to move)
- The KNLvK endgame has 13 fortress draws, i.e. positions where
the King can keep the pieces occupied forever. They are all in
a single connected set:
- WHITE: Kd5, Ne2, Lg4 BLACK: Kf3 (WHITE to move)
- The number of fortress draws in the KNWvK endgame is very unusual (4.29%), being neither very large nor very small. This means there are plenty of pitfalls for WHITE in this more-or-less won endgame.
- The KLWvK endgame has 567 fortress draws, i.e. positions where
the King can keep the pieces occupied forever. The vast majority
of these positions have the Wazir in the corner with the Black
King between it and the White King. The Camel is stuck protecting
the Wazir while being harassed by the Black King. The remaining
positions fall into two sets:
- Set #1: WHITE: Ka8, La7, Wd8 BLACK: Kc8 (BLACK to move)
- Set #2: WHITE: Kd5, Le2, Wg4 BLACK: Kg2 (BLACK to move)
- Two Wazirs cannot checkmate a lone King.
- Two Ferz's, even on different colors, cannot checkmate a lone King.
- A Wazir and a Ferz cannot checkmate a lone King.
- Two Camels, even on different colors, cannot checkmate a lone King.
- A Camel and a Zebra cannot checkmate a lone King.
- A Camel and a Wazir can checkmate a lone King, which is surprising. It can take as long as 77 moves (154 halfmoves) to force mate. I've played through this endgame a few times, and it appears that the corner colored opposite the Camel is "safe" for the lone King: Even when the White King and both pieces are bearing down on the lone King in this corner, is still takes over 40 moves (80 halfmoves) to force him into the "deadly" corner and checkmate him. Checkmate seems always to be given by the Wazir on the square next to the deadly corner.
- A Knight and a Camel can checkmate a lone King.
- A Knight and a Zebra cannot checkmate a lone King.
- A Knight and a Wazir can checkmate a lone King.
Sincerely,
Dave McCooey Email: dmccooey at earthlink dot net
(8x8 SQUARE BOARD)
Endgames: [King + One Piece] vs [King + One Piece]
(A)mazon, (Q)ueen, (C)hancellor, Pe(G)asus, (R)ook, (B)ishop, K(N)ight Kn(I)ghtrider, Came(L), (Z)ebra, (W)azir, (F)erz
(d) = colorbound pieces on different colored squares
(s) = colorbound pieces on same colored squares
------------------------------------------------------------ ||||||||||||||||| Percentage Breakdown ||||||||||||||||| Two Unique ------------------------------------------------------------ Piece Legal WHITE BLACK Simple Fortress Perpetual Stale- Endgame Positions Wins Wins Draws Draws Checks mates ------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- KAvKA 1957100 38.011241 38.011241 1.257166 22.720352 0.000000 0.000000 KAvKQ 2097766 47.066260 22.256105 8.358368 4.568908 17.750359 0.000000 KAvKC 2185790 57.044089 19.866044 6.802255 0.001052 16.285279 0.001281 KAvKG 2317082 78.143933 16.387335 2.876463 0.000000 2.583249 0.009020 KAvKR 2326456 79.972671 16.618539 3.353986 0.000000 0.053515 0.001290 KAvKI 2435852 83.654754 0.000000 16.333628 0.000000 0.001149 0.010469 KAvKB 2457748 86.003122 0.000000 13.987398 0.000000 0.000000 0.009480 KAvKN 2545772 89.224526 0.000000 10.764711 0.000000 0.000000 0.010763 KAvKL 2569013 89.260934 0.000000 10.728439 0.000000 0.000000 0.010627 KAvKZ 2585666 89.952801 0.000000 10.036060 0.000000 0.000000 0.011138 KAvKW 2590546 90.661814 0.000000 9.336680 0.000000 0.000000 0.001505 KAvKF 2602900 91.039072 0.000000 8.951208 0.000000 0.000000 0.009720 KQvKQ 2238432 21.099815 21.099815 0.558248 57.242123 0.000000 0.000000 KQvKC 2326456 31.175488 26.860168 12.005170 18.808050 11.151124 0.000000 KQvKG 2457748 34.440594 19.463590 4.469539 38.102360 3.523673 0.000244 KQvKR 2467122 80.708858 15.745269 3.461483 0.000000 0.084390 0.000000 KQvKI 2576518 81.378123 0.000000 18.619082 0.000000 0.002562 0.000233 KQvKB 2598414 86.704159 0.000000 13.295379 0.000000 0.000000 0.000462 KQvKN 2686438 88.341216 0.000000 11.658188 0.000000 0.000372 0.000223 KQvKL 2709679 89.720812 0.000185 10.278561 0.000000 0.000000 0.000443 KQvKZ 2726332 90.403847 0.000220 9.595493 0.000000 0.000000 0.000440 KQvKW 2731212 91.143419 0.000000 8.855812 0.000000 0.000769 0.000000 KQvKF 2743566 91.507075 0.000000 8.492488 0.000000 0.000000 0.000437 KCvKC 2414480 18.969592 18.969592 0.730841 61.329976 0.000000 0.000000 KCvKG 2545772 35.445005 21.255281 3.691847 32.256266 7.350265 0.001336 KCvKR 2555146 44.564851 15.506315 3.659086 36.202941 0.066806 0.000000 KCvKI 2664542 84.389625 0.000000 15.584404 0.000000 0.025708 0.000263 KCvKB 2686438 85.873264 0.000000 14.126140 0.000000 0.000000 0.000596 KCvKN 2774462 89.931706 0.000000 10.064618 0.000000 0.003424 0.000252 KCvKL 2797703 89.925164 0.000000 10.074336 0.000000 0.000000 0.000500 KCvKZ 2814356 90.594331 0.000000 9.405171 0.000000 0.000000 0.000497 KCvKW 2819236 91.309312 0.000000 8.690688 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 KCvKF 2831590 91.680010 0.000000 8.319425 0.000000 0.000000 0.000565 KGvKG 2677064 15.160116 15.160116 0.539322 69.140446 0.000000 0.000000 KGvKR 2686438 25.785631 17.818688 5.470664 50.888723 0.034953 0.001340 KGvKI 2795834 84.690400 0.000000 15.267931 0.000000 0.040382 0.001288 KGvKB 2817730 87.354395 0.000106 12.645498 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 KGvKN 2905754 90.317487 0.000000 9.675905 0.000000 0.005300 0.001308 KGvKL 2928995 90.234978 0.000205 9.763656 0.000000 0.000000 0.001161 KGvKZ 2945648 90.922303 0.000204 9.076169 0.000000 0.000000 0.001324 KGvKW 2950528 91.629566 0.000000 8.369112 0.000000 0.000000 0.001322 KGvKF 2962882 92.020911 0.000135 7.978954 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 KRvKR 2695812 14.894102 14.894102 0.211958 69.999837 0.000000 0.000000 KRvKI 2805208 18.000412 0.000927 18.126000 63.838867 0.033580 0.000214 KRvKB 2827104 18.435226 0.000000 13.635756 67.928594 0.000000 0.000424 KRvKN 2915128 28.203358 0.000172 11.119203 60.673219 0.003842 0.000206 KRvKL 2938369 51.211165 0.000170 9.702185 39.086071 0.000000 0.000408 KRvKZ 2955022 90.960338 0.000372 9.038884 0.000000 0.000000 0.000406 KRvKW 2959902 91.713408 0.000068 8.283653 0.000777 0.002095 0.000000 KRvKF 2972256 92.064916 0.000000 7.934680 0.000000 0.000000 0.000404 KIvKI 2914604 0.000995 0.000995 0.000000 99.998010 0.000000 0.000000 KIvKB 2936500 0.000988 0.000102 14.389750 85.609161 0.000000 0.000000 KIvKN 3024524 0.000959 0.000198 11.083430 88.867108 0.048305 0.000000 KIvKL 3047765 0.002362 0.000197 9.580463 90.416978 0.000000 0.000000 KIvKZ 3064418 0.001273 0.000359 8.893858 91.104510 0.000000 0.000000 KIvKW 3069298 0.002346 0.000098 8.601869 87.273116 4.122571 0.000000 KIvKF 3081652 0.000941 0.000130 8.027188 91.971741 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKB 2958396 0.002231 0.002231 0.000068 99.995471 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKN 3046420 0.000098 0.000197 21.324998 78.674707 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKL(d) 1553412 0.004249 0.001352 5.328271 94.666128 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKL(s) 1516249 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 (100) 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKZ 3086314 0.000486 0.000389 9.123278 90.875847 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKW 3091194 0.000000 0.000000 0.006308 99.993692 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKF(d) 1570937 0.004201 0.000446 5.324784 94.670569 0.000000 0.000000 KBvKF(s) 1532611 0.000000 0.000000 0.000130 99.999870 0.000000 0.000000 KNvKN 3134444 0.000191 0.000191 0.000000 99.999617 0.000000 0.000000 KNvKL 3157685 0.000507 0.000190 10.244087 89.755216 0.000000 0.000000 KNvKZ 3174338 0.000504 0.000347 9.877934 90.121216 0.000000 0.000000 KNvKW 3179218 0.000503 0.000094 11.152994 0.000000 88.846408 0.000000 KNvKF 3191572 0.000188 0.000125 9.388101 90.611586 0.000000 0.000000 KLvKL(d) 1613456 0.001302 0.001302 0.000000 99.997397 0.000000 0.000000 KLvKL(s) 1567470 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 (100) 0.000000 0.000000 KLvKZ 3197579 0.000657 0.000375 8.694734 91.304234 0.000000 0.000000 KLvKW 3202459 0.000656 0.000156 10.209998 0.000000 89.789190 0.000000 KLvKF(d) 1630981 0.001288 0.000429 5.225015 94.773268 0.000000 0.000000 KLvKF(s) 1583832 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 (100) 0.000000 0.000000 KZvKZ 3214232 0.000684 0.000684 0.000000 99.998631 0.000000 0.000000 KZvKW 3219112 0.000683 0.000155 13.695268 0.000000 86.303894 0.000000 KZvKF 3231466 0.000681 0.000217 10.409053 89.590050 0.000000 0.000000 KWvKW 3223992 0.000155 0.000155 0.012717 99.986973 0.000000 0.000000 KWvKF 3236346 0.000000 0.000000 0.006489 99.993511 0.000000 0.000000 KFvKF(d) 1648506 0.000425 0.000425 0.000000 99.999151 0.000000 0.000000 KFvKF(s) 1600194 0.000000 0.000000 0.000125 99.999875 0.000000 0.000000
Two Piece Endgame | Longest WHITE win | Longest BLACK win |
- | (halfmoves) | (halfmoves) |
KAvKA | 21 | 21 |
KAvKQ | 60 | 13 |
KAvKC | 46 | 13 |
KAvKG | 44 | 9 |
KAvKR | 24 | 5 |
KAvKI | 12 | 0 |
KAvKB | 10 | 0 |
KAvKN | 10 | 0 |
KAvKL | 8 | 0 |
KAvKZ | 8 | 0 |
KAvKW | 16 | 0 |
KAvKF | 8 | 0 |
KQvKQ | 19 | 19 |
KQvKC | 24 | 23 |
KQvKG | 41 | 9 |
KQvKR | 62 | 5 |
KQvKI | 52 | 0 |
KQvKB | 24 | 0 |
KQvKN | 38 | 0 |
KQvKL | 20 | 1 |
KQvKZ | 18 | 1 |
KQvKW | 26 | 0 |
KQvKF | 20 | 0 |
KCvKC | 20 | 20 |
KCvKG | 32 | 16 |
KCvKR | 79 | 5 |
KCvKI | 33 | 0 |
KCvKB | 26 | 0 |
KCvKN | 28 | 0 |
KCvKL | 16 | 0 |
KCvKZ | 14 | 0 |
KCvKW | 20 | 0 |
KCvKF | 22 | 0 |
KGvKG | 17 | 17 |
KGvKR | 27 | 11 |
KGvKI | 113 | 0 |
KGvKB | 64 | 1 |
KGvKN | 43 | 0 |
KGvKL | 24 | 1 |
KGvKZ | 20 | 1 |
KGvKW | 26 | 0 |
KGvKF | 26 | 1 |
KRvKR | 7 | 7 |
KRvKI | 17 | 1 |
KRvKB | 36 | 0 |
KRvKN | 54 | 1 |
KRvKL | 70 | 1 |
KRvKZ | 50 | 1 |
KRvKW | 46 | 1 |
KRvKF | 40 | 0 |
KIvKI | 1 | 1 |
KIvKB | 1 | 1 |
KIvKN | 1 | 1 |
KIvKL | 1 | 1 |
KIvKZ | 1 | 1 |
KIvKW | 1 | 1 |
KIvKF | 1 | 1 |
KBvKB | 1 | 1 |
KBvKN | 1 | 1 |
KBvKL(d) | 1 | 1 |
KBvKL(s) | 0 | 0 |
KBvKZ | 1 | 1 |
KBvKW | 0 | 0 |
KBvKF(d) | 1 | 1 |
KBvKF(s) | 0 | 0 |
KNvKN | 1 | 1 |
KNvKL | 1 | 1 |
KNvKZ | 1 | 1 |
KNvKW | 1 | 1 |
KNvKF | 1 | 1 |
KLvKL(d) | 1 | 1 |
KLvKL(s) | 0 | 0 |
KLvKZ | 1 | 1 |
KLvKW | 1 | 1 |
KLvKF(d) | 1 | 1 |
KLvKF(s) | 0 | 0 |
KZvKZ | 1 | 1 |
KZvKW | 1 | 1 |
KZvKF | 1 | 1 |
KWvKW | 1 | 1 |
KWvKF | 0 | 0 |
KFvKF(d) | 1 | 1 |
KFvKF(s) | 0 | 0 |
(8x8 SQUARE BOARD)
Endgames: [King + Two Pieces] vs [King]
(A)mazon, (Q)ueen, (C)hancellor, Pe(G)asus, (R)ook, (B)ishop, K(N)ight Kn(I)ghtrider, Came(L), (Z)ebra, (W)azir, (F)erz
(d) = colorbound pieces on different colored squares
(s) = colorbound pieces on same colored squares
------------------------------------------------------------ ||||||||||||||||| Percentage Breakdown ||||||||||||||||| Two Unique ------------------------------------------------------------ Piece Legal WHITE BLACK Simple Fortress Perpetual Stale- Endgame Positions Wins Wins Draws Draws Checks mates ------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- KAAvK 1125175 98.943809 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.056191 KAQvK 2326649 98.758730 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.241270 KACvK 2385238 98.799826 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.200174 KAGvK 2473365 99.373930 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.626070 KARvK 2462480 99.456889 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.543111 KAIvK 2547214 93.904124 0.000000 5.593170 0.000000 0.000000 0.502706 KABvK 2550607 93.785401 0.000000 5.715894 0.000000 0.000000 0.498705 KANvK 2609196 93.781763 0.000000 5.894919 0.000000 0.000000 0.323318 KALvK 2623313 93.692556 0.000000 5.968788 0.000000 0.000000 0.338656 KAZvK 2632666 93.673789 0.000000 6.020399 0.000000 0.000000 0.305812 KAWvK 2627928 93.600510 0.000000 6.110517 0.000000 0.000000 0.288973 KAFvK 2637776 93.597068 0.000000 6.112612 0.000000 0.000000 0.290320 KQQvK 1208031 98.537124 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.462876 KQCvK 2483526 98.677002 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.322998 KQGvK 2581813 99.226861 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.773139 KQRvK 2571940 99.312426 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.687574 KQIvK 2669137 94.102176 0.000000 5.337680 0.000000 0.000000 0.560144 KQBvK 2670227 94.002495 0.000000 5.459835 0.000000 0.000000 0.537670 KQNvK 2738690 93.987417 0.000000 5.616189 0.000000 0.000000 0.396394 KQLvK 2753099 93.924192 0.000000 5.687409 0.000000 0.000000 0.388399 KQZvK 2763786 93.922503 0.000000 5.734778 0.000000 0.000000 0.342718 KQWvK 2760115 93.846017 0.000000 5.817874 0.000000 0.000000 0.336109 KQFvK 2770649 93.855266 0.000000 5.819467 0.000000 0.000000 0.325267 KCCvK 1271038 98.861875 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.138125 KCGvK 2660975 99.335056 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.664944 KCRvK 2639391 99.260966 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.739034 KCIvK 2739315 94.237026 0.000000 5.200935 0.000000 0.000000 0.562038 KCBvK 2759263 94.212259 0.000000 5.283657 0.000000 0.000000 0.504084 KCNvK 2816840 94.172441 0.000000 5.460374 0.000000 0.000000 0.367185 KCLvK 2834623 94.059598 0.000000 5.523839 0.000000 0.000000 0.416563 KCZvK 2846260 94.110587 0.000000 5.568606 0.000000 0.000000 0.320807 KCWvK 2842870 94.045419 0.000000 5.648517 0.000000 0.000000 0.306064 KCFvK 2857898 94.040585 0.000000 5.641804 0.000000 0.000000 0.317611 KGGvK 1375726 99.650875 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.349125 KGRvK 2769423 99.745109 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.254891 KGIvK 2851166 94.797357 0.000000 4.997008 0.000000 0.000000 0.205635 KGBvK 2858810 94.703775 0.000000 5.099674 0.000000 0.000000 0.196550 KGNvK 2937972 94.642597 0.000000 5.235346 0.000000 0.000000 0.122057 KGLvK 2957255 94.590389 0.000000 5.294876 0.000000 0.000000 0.114735 KGZvK 2970290 94.567298 0.000000 5.336179 0.000000 0.000000 0.096523 KGWvK 2972755 94.508226 0.000000 5.401723 0.000000 0.000000 0.090051 KGFvK 2979243 94.486485 0.000000 5.412012 0.000000 0.000000 0.101502 KRRvK 1374940 99.820501 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.179499 KRIvK 2861238 94.834054 0.000000 4.979313 0.000000 0.000000 0.186632 KRBvK 2878883 94.781379 0.000000 5.064117 0.000000 0.000000 0.154504 KRNvK 2946334 94.678506 0.000000 5.220386 0.000000 0.000000 0.101109 KRLvK 2964409 94.606547 0.000000 5.281997 0.000000 0.000000 0.111456 KRZvK 2977380 94.610765 0.000000 5.323372 0.000000 0.000000 0.065863 KRWvK 2975057 94.539332 0.000000 5.397544 0.000000 0.000000 0.063125 KRFvK 2990771 94.550937 0.000000 5.391152 0.000000 0.000000 0.057911 KIIvK 1473381 90.211765 0.000000 9.709437 0.000000 0.000000 0.078798 KIBvK 2973089 90.063500 0.000000 9.862268 0.000000 0.000000 0.074233 KINvK 3043267 90.100704 0.000000 9.845833 0.000000 0.000000 0.053462 KILvK 3066558 89.939665 0.000000 10.011126 0.000000 0.000000 0.049208 KIZvK 3080730 89.877529 0.000000 10.075567 0.000000 0.000000 0.046904 KIWvK 3084188 89.749522 0.000000 10.204598 0.000000 0.000000 0.045879 KIFvK 3095018 89.592468 0.000000 10.348631 0.016995 0.000000 0.041906 KBBvK 746684 89.021058 0.000000 10.889881 0.000000 0.000000 0.089060 KBNvK 3067466 89.704466 0.000000 10.243015 0.000000 0.000000 0.052519 KBLvK(d) 1553412 88.722245 0.000000 11.219174 0.000966 0.000000 0.057615 KBLvK(s) 1533629 0.000000 0.000000 8.495797 91.453018 0.000000 0.051186 KBZvK 3101410 90.084736 0.000000 9.867222 0.000000 0.000000 0.048043 KBWvK 3104942 89.593461 0.000000 10.353076 0.000064 0.000000 0.053399 KBFvK(d) 1570937 87.340549 0.000000 12.608335 0.000000 0.000000 0.051116 KBFvK(s) 1541179 0.000000 0.000000 8.642409 91.309900 0.000000 0.047691 KNNvK 1573368 0.005847 0.000000 10.502375 89.461016 0.000000 0.030762 KNLvK 3168565 89.491110 0.000000 10.475689 0.000410 0.000000 0.032791 KNZvK 3183884 0.006376 0.000000 10.660941 89.307022 0.000000 0.025660 KNWvK 3187697 79.122796 0.000000 16.561329 4.290558 0.000000 0.025316 KNFvK 3199365 2.363594 0.000000 17.885205 79.725446 0.000000 0.025755 KLLvK(d) 806728 0.019585 0.000000 11.280258 88.665696 0.000000 0.034460 KLLvK(s) 787969 0.000000 0.000000 8.858217 91.104980 0.000000 0.036803 KLZvK 3205579 0.007362 0.000000 9.982627 89.979595 0.000000 0.030416 KLWvK 3209471 88.411081 0.000000 11.540999 0.017666 0.000000 0.030254 KLFvK(d) 1630981 0.010301 0.000000 14.310406 85.648760 0.000000 0.030534 KLFvK(s) 1590215 0.000000 0.000000 10.455567 89.513745 0.000000 0.030688 KZZvK 1610472 0.004843 0.000000 10.341689 89.630990 0.000000 0.022478 KZWvK 3225089 0.009116 0.000000 11.394135 88.575013 0.000000 0.021736 KZFvK 3236871 1.494468 0.000000 11.828522 86.652140 0.000000 0.024870 KWWvK 1614603 0.010653 0.000000 33.685061 66.282609 0.000000 0.021677 KWFvK 3241410 0.924659 0.000000 36.766407 62.283790 0.000000 0.025143 KFFvK(d) 824253 0.004610 0.000000 30.115632 69.853310 0.000000 0.026448 KFFvK(s) 802344 0.000000 0.000000 26.404136 73.568694 0.000000 0.027170
Two Piece Longest WHITE Longest BLACK Endgame win (halfmoves) win (halfmoves) ------- --------------- --------------- KAAvK 5 0 KAQvK 5 0 KACvK 5 0 KAGvK 5 0 KARvK 5 0 KAIvK 6 0 KABvK 8 0 KANvK 8 0 KALvK 8 0 KAZvK 8 0 KAWvK 8 0 KAFvK 10 0 KQQvK 7 0 KQCvK 7 0 KQGvK 9 0 KQRvK 9 0 KQIvK 13 0 KQBvK 13 0 KQNvK 15 0 KQLvK 16 0 KQZvK 17 0 KQWvK 20 0 KQFvK 18 0 KCCvK 7 0 KCGvK 9 0 KCRvK 9 0 KCIvK 14 0 KCBvK 15 0 KCNvK 16 0 KCLvK 20 0 KCZvK 20 0 KCWvK 24 0 KCFvK 22 0 KGGvK 11 0 KGRvK 13 0 KGIvK 19 0 KGBvK 21 0 KGNvK 23 0 KGLvK 25 0 KGZvK 27 0 KGWvK 34 0 KGFvK 30 0 KRRvK 11 0 KRIvK 22 0 KRBvK 24 0 KRNvK 24 0 KRLvK 26 0 KRZvK 28 0 KRWvK 29 0 KRFvK 30 0 KIIvK 44 0 KIBvK 44 0 KINvK 54 0 KILvK 56 0 KIZvK 61 0 KIWvK 60 0 KIFvK 84 0 KBBvK 38 0 KBNvK 66 0 KBLvK(d) 66 0 KBLvK(s) 0 0 KBZvK 78 0 KBWvK 86 0 KBFvK(d) 74 0 KBFvK(s) 0 0 KNNvK 1 0 KNLvK 98 0 KNZvK 1 0 KNWvK 90 0 KNFvK 72 0 KLLvK(d) 3 0 KLLvK(s) 0 0 KLZvK 3 0 KLWvK 154 0 KLFvK(d) 3 0 KLFvK(s) 0 0 KZZvK 1 0 KZWvK 1 0 KZFvK 93 0 KWWvK 1 0 KWFvK 91 0 KFFvK(d) 3 0 KFFvK(s) 0 0
The one-piece endgame results are as one can predict: The Amazon, Chancellor, and Pegasus can force mate, while the other 5 cannot. In fact, the other 5 fantasy pieces can't checkmate even if the lone King cooperates! (None of these pieces can cover two adjacent squares.)
The maximum number of moves that it can take the Amazon, Chancellor, or Pegasus to checkmate are as follows:
Amazon: | 4 |
Chancellor: | 11 |
Pegasus: | 17 |
For comparison:
Queen: | 10 |
Rook: | 16 |
The database file created by my program for a given 2-piece endgame contains all simplified versions of the endgame as well. So, it is possible to play a King + Pegaus vs King endgame using any of the 2-piece endgame databases that contain the Pegasus piece. What I don't have, however, is a percentage breakdown for 1-piece endgames.
See also:
- Endgame statistics for three pieces, by Dave McCooey.
Written by: Dave McCooey.
WWW page created: July 16, 1996. Last modified: September 5, 2001.