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Chigorin Chess. White has knights instead of bishops and a chancellor for his queen; black has bishops instead of knights. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Feb 18, 2005 04:22 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

Dave McCooey - Fairy endgames with 3 pieces (8x8 board)
Amazon(R+B+N), Queen(R+B), Chancellor(R+N),
Unicorn(B+NN): a Bishop-Nightrider combination.
|||||        Longest Wins for the Strong Side (WHITE)        |||||
|||||   (strong side has 2 pieces, weak side has 1 piece)    |||||
Three-------------Number---Type-----------------------------------Side
Piece-----Half------Of------Of-------------------------------------To
Endgame---Moves--Positions-Win------Example Position--------------Move
KRRvKQ-----30-------14 f-captr WK(c8) WR(h2) WR(g8) BK(a1) BQ(d1) WHITE
KRRvKU----202--------4 capture WK(b8) WR(d5) WR(h8) BK(d7) BU(e1) BLACK
KRRvKC-----87--------9 capture WK(d6) WR(a6) WR(a7) BK(g6) BC(d3) WHITE
Queens and Chancellors have good chances of drawing by 
perpetual check.  If they fail, then the game ends fairly quickly.
The Unicorn has little chance of drawing, but it can drag 
the loss out to an incredible 101 moves.