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What would you do if you were the e-pawn?
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Hope for the day when I turn into a queen...
Dec 26, 2014
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#45
The_Ghostess_Lola wrote:
My question is:
If you had to be a pawn, then which one would it be to prolong your life ? There must be some quantitative #'s out there from professional games showing the pawns most likely to enjoy their life the longest....hmmm.
Help anyone ?....Help ?
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-10-chess-pieces-most-likely-to-survive-a-game
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-10-chess-pieces-least-likely-to-survive-a-game
Dec 26, 2014
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#46
Great links/articles, J-Star-Roar. That's exactly what I expected, too, which in fact is the 3rd assumption in a study I did of rapidity of endgame mates (http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/which-endgame-mate-is-faster).
I think of the expansion of units onto a board as two pies baking with their crusts rising, where the pies are facing each other and are close to each other so that their crusts will soon come into contact. Contact facilitates annihilation, so that fact combined with the tendency for units to occupy the center, implies the center units get wiped out first. Equivalently, that means the units that tend to survive the longest are the units near the edge, namely the a-pawns and h-pawns.
Recently I played a game as White against my computer where virtually all my pawns in my expanding frontier got locked into an immobile position against Black's pawns, which resulted in a draw. The only thing remarkable about that game was that the final position clearly showed the normal and preferable pawn expansion pattern that White should try to achieve, sort of like a snapshot of a rising bubble in time. If anybody's particularly interested, I'll try to find that game and post it.
Surrender and beg for mercy, because my leader has forsaken me for the good of the unit?