How to find chess data ?

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Date: 29 Dec 2006 12:38:25
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Subject: How to find chess data ?

I want to know the following data:
in a set of say: 1000 games

(a) how many pawns were killed?
(b) how many knights, quenns etc ...

is there any database awailable ???

any help would be appriciated

Date: 30 Dec 2006 08:25:41
From: Dave (from the UK)
Subject: Re: How to find chess data ?

[email protected] wrote:
> I want to know the following data:
> in a set of say: 1000 games
>
> (a) how many pawns were killed?
> (b) how many knights, quenns etc ...
>
>
> is there any database awailable ???
>
> any help would be appriciated
>

You, its quite easy to do.

1) Find a collection of games in PGN format (I suggest using a lot more
than 1000 if you statistically significant data), then use 'ChessDB'

http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/

to do the search for you. The "Material Search" will probably do what
you want. Here's a view of the menu where you would search for the
material.

http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/tutorial/t_search_material.php

I just did a quick check on my own games and find that all 4 knights are
off the board in about 40% of endings (516 games ended with no knights
out of 1304 games). 4 games ended with neither side having any material
at all.

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Dave (from the UK)

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Date: 29 Dec 2006 19:33:56
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Subject: Re: How to find chess data ?