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Subject: Re: Programmers and lab Rats

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:05:06 06/08/02

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On June 08, 2002 at 09:36:23, Mark Rawlings wrote:

>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!
>

That would be ok.  Because if you know _both_ you could still determine
whether the position was won or drawn due to the N-move rule.  If you have
the DTC score to help interpret the DTM score...


>Mark



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