Author: blass uri
Date: 15:42:38 10/14/98
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On October 14, 1998 at 18:25:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 14, 1998 at 12:51:09, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On October 14, 1998 at 09:04:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On October 14, 1998 at 03:15:10, blass uri wrote: >>> >>>>I can imagine a practical game with more than 600 moves when the side with >>>>KBPPvK (wrong bishop) is playing 49 quiet moves and pushes a pawn forward. >>>>h2-h3 h3-h4 h4-h5 h5-h6 h6-h7 h7-h8 are 6 pawn moves of h2 and there are 5 pawn >>>>moves of the pawn h3 and if we count the beginning of the game than it is more >>>>than 1200 plies. >>>> >>>>I suspect that many program will go to an infinite loop before the end of the >>>>game and will lose on time. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>I don't know why they would, because the game is still constrained by >>>things like the 50-move rule. However, Crafty has played at least two >>>games that went over 500 moves. Early on, winboard/xboard had a 256 entry >>>list for black and white moves, which meant when the game passed move 256 >>>it would hang because winboard/xboard would crash. Tim fixed this when I >>>told him about this, bumping it to 1024. I have since played one game >>>vs a human over 500 moves that I remember, and at *least* one against a >>>computer... >>> >>>I could play a game 5000 moves long with no difficulty at all... At 40/2 >>>at ACM events I have played two games over 12 hours long as well... >> >>Who was that human? (if it is posible to know) >>That is some endurance! Even at a fast time control, I would be exhausted after >>a 500 moves game! > > >The most famous game on ICC I remember was between Crafty and Skipper... a 3 0 >game that went for 350 moves before a draw. that is 3 minutes on each clock, >skipper was manually moving pieces and was a human player in Hawaii. In fact, >he is the one that found the 256 move limit in xboard and flagged crafty a >few games in 2 0 bullet... reaching 256 moves quite easily without running out >of time... Amazing! I tried to play some games in ICC as a guest and found that it is impossible for me to play 0 1 bullet without running out of time(0 2 is the best I can and I tried to do the fastest move I prefered short moves like Rh1g1) and this guy played 256 moves in less than 120 seconds. Uri
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