Survival of pieces

vivify

rain

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09 Jun 15

vivify

rain

Joined: 08 Mar 11
Moves: 12456

09 Jun 15

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I got this from a poster at Chess.com. The following link is a diagram with stats on how likely a piece is to survive until the end of the game (white, of course, is the set of pieces at the bottom):

http://i.imgur.com/ggDZVwn.png

Interesting stuff.

PaulTheLion

Joined: 23 Apr 15
Moves: 1833

17 Jul 15

what is it based on?

Stansi

Joined: 29 May 14
Moves: 500

18 Jul 15

Originally posted by PaulTheLion
what is it based on?

It comes from Oliver Brennan's answer at

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-chances-of-survival-of-individual-chess-pieces-in-average-games

which says that the data was extracted from Million Base 2.2.