Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 06:36:23 06/08/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 01:02:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >I don't know about the "quicker" part. But the 50-move rule is a serious >problem. It would seem that we need to soon convert to a combination of >DTM/DTC so that we can work around the 50 move rule with some sort of reasonable >algorithm that will work in a running chess engine. > >But in any case, current DTM or DTC by themselves have difficulties that are >serious problems.. I agree that eventually having both DTM and DTC tablebases would be useful. It's probably not worth the effort to spend a lot of time trying to incorporate the 50-move rule into the tablebase. I can see someone spending several years doing this and then FIDE changing it to the 60-move rule! Mark
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