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Spartan Chess. A game with unequal armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 11:56 AM UTC:

I did run some 5-men Spartan end-games with my tablebase generator, and can confirm that the following endgames are all 'generally won' to white:

moves to conversion:
             max typ
K+Q+B vs K+W  44  10
K+Q+N vs K+W  45  10
K+Q+B vs K+G  33  18
K+Q+N vs K+G  39  18

'Generally won' means that with white to move it is virtually always won, except for the ~1% of cases where the initial position happens to be a fork or skewer against your K+Q. With black to move these are only won in about 35% of the cases, because in the remaining 65% the powerful black defender (W or G) will be able to capture either King or Queen in the initial position.

The first two end-games can already be found on this site (calculate by McCooey, where Warlord is called Pegasus), those with the General are new.