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Subject: Re: Tablebases and 50 moves rule

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 17:51:37 09/14/01

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The program should play by the rules of chess, or else the program per
definition does not play chess. Close to chess, yes! And maybe someday the rules
will be changed. And you forget the cases where a win is possible outside the 50
moves, but search + tabebases are not enough to show it as a fact. And what if
one program claims a win in X moves. You then take the rules of chess to be
dependant on each programs implementation of search and tablebase use. You would
then need some kind of 'official' arbitration software. It would open a whole
can of worms.



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