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Boris Gelfand vs Alexander Grischuk
20th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2011) (blindfold), Monaco MNC, rd 2, Mar-13
King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation (E94)  ·  0-1

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Mar-13-11
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  Penguincw: ♔♖♙♙ vs. ♔♖ endgame statistics :

The superior side (in this case black) wins 79.1% of the time.

A draw occurs 20.6% of the time.

The inferior side (in this case white) wins 0.3% of the time.

Believe it or not,the inferior side has won 9 times.It even occured twice at the Amber tournament.

Piket vs Anand, 1998 and Gelfand vs Shirov, 2001.

Mar-13-11  Bdellovibrio: <Penguincw> thanks for those interesting stats.

In the opening, my instinct is that 14. h4, although weakening the kingside, is a better move in light of piece mobility, because it allows a choice of h2-b8 diagonal vs. c1-f4 diagonal for the bishop, and keeps the queen free to develop to an attacking square such as b3. Opinions?

Mar-13-11
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  Penguincw: Well,I got it from the two pages:

1)Endgame Explorer: RPP vs R

2)Endgame Explorer: RPP vs R

Mar-14-11  puzzlepatzer: fwiw here are some stats from my database. with connected pawns it is a win 88.6% of the time. if the pawns are isolated it is 75.6% and with doubled pawns it is a mere 39.3% of the time. with isolated pawns on both wings it is a win 85.2% of the time.

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