Ken Thompson's 6-man Tables

Ken Thompson recently communicated some results mined from his set of 64 6-man endgame tables. These list some positions of interest, namely, mutual zugzwangs and those of maximum depth. The results have been analysed by the authors and found to be identical or compatible with the available or published findings of Karrer, Nalimov, Stiller and Wirth.

Ken Thompson's 6-man Statistical Graphs

This note reviews Ken Thompson's statistics on 6-man White wins with Black to move and explains the way in which the statistics have been graphed logarithmically.