R-Mobility

The goal of reset-mobility is to achieve a position after the last pawn move or capture where your opponent has as few legal moves available as possible. Not being in check is counted as an additional 0.5 move.

When fewer legal moves are available, this results in a worse scoring.

Being in check is considered worse than not being in check.

• Mate is 0 legal moves and in check and thus worst possible result for side being mated and best result for side doing mating.
• Stalemate is 0 legal moves and not in check and thus 2nd worst possible result for side being stalemated and 2nd best result for side doing mating.
• 1 legal move in check is 3rd result.
• 1 legal move not in check is 4th result and so on.

Short syntax for goal is Gn.m where n is number of legal moves and m is 0.5 if not in check and - if black wins.

• mate = G0.0
• stalemate = G0.5
• 1 legal move in check = G1.0
• 1 legal move not in chek = G1.5

If win is for black, then - as added to front: -G8.5

For reset mobility (r-mobility) only positions since the last pawn move or capture in the game are considered.

If used for tiebreak purposes, then points decide tournament as usual and is 100% compatible with both FIDE and ICCF rules, except for tiebreak calculations unless added to the end of current tiebreaks. In this case the first (additional) tiebreak is number of times stalemating opponent - number of time being stalemated by opponent. The second tiebreak same, but for G1.0 result, the third tiebreak for G1.5 result, etc..

Basic endgames

KPvK

                                                                                                                ♚        ♙        ♔

Position after 1. Ke6

Mate or stalemate unless the pawn can be captured. Diagram for common stalemate result.

KBvK

                                                                                                                                           ♔♗♚

Position after 1. Bf5

Usually G1.5, example game:

1. Bf5 (diagram)

Subgoal is to get positions where the lone king is forced further towards edge.

Game continues with

1... Kh5 2.Kf4 Kh6 3.Kg4 (diagram)

Now black king has only 1 legal move and is not in check (G1.5).

Players can continue game until a threefold happens or 50-move rule kicks in, but unless black blunders, white will never achieve a better result (stalemate, or one legal move while in check) and thus players might as well agree on the game result here.

                                                                                                                                     ♚      ♗         ♔

Position after 3. Kg4

Stalemate is possible if the the lone king is near any corner and the other king is nearby in a suitable position.

1.Kf6 (diagram) Kf8 2.Bd7 Kg8 3.Be6+ Kh7 4.Bf7 Kh8 5.Kg6

                                                                                                                  ♚                ♔        ♗

Position after 1. Kf6

KNvK

                                                                                                                                         ♚♘♔

Position after 1. Nd5

Usually G3.5 (diagram) but G1.5, G2.5 and stalemate are possible depending position. Rarely G2.0, G3.0 and G1.0.

KvK

                                                                                                                            ♚               ♔

Position after 1. Ke5

Usually G5.5, example:

1. Ke5 (diagram) Kg6 2.Ke6 Threefold will soon follow, as neither side is able to improve on the result.

G3.5, G8.5, G2.5, G1.5 and G4.5 results also possible depending on position.

With G8.5 or -G8.5 position (diagram) if either side tries to go closer to other king, will then lose to G5.5, for example in diagram position after

1.Kd5 Kf5

white has 5 legal moves and thus black wins game with -G5.5.

                                                                                                                                          ♔   ♚

Position after 1... Kxg5

Thus both players have to keep distance and threefold follows soon and result stays at -G8.5.

KNNvK

Stalemate unless a knight can be captured or mate in 1 is available.

Whole game mobility

For whole game mobility all positions in game are included. 2-5 piece tablebases have been generated for wg-mobility and longest records and statistics are available at [1] R-mobility is often same, but there are crucial differences and some games are longer and more natural for r-mobility.