Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:15:38 05/29/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 00:44:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 29, 2002 at 02:34:34, Robin Smith wrote: > >>The position is easily winning for white. But tablebases cause programs to want >>to play 1.Rxf5?? after which there is a tablebase mate in 65 .... except the 50 >>move rule kicks in first and the game ends up a draw. Are there any programs >>that avoid this type of blunder? [D] 5k2/3K4/8/R4b2/1R6/8/3B4/5r2 w - - 0 1 > > >Can't avoid it. The current tablebases don't include 50-move-rule >issues, so this is just a fact of life for tablebases. You can avoid it by translating mate in 67 to something like +2 so you are going to prefer safer ways to win the game if you can see them by search. Uri
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