Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 04:51:17 04/04/00
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The solution is to revise the 50 move rule. Like any rule in chess, it has been revised. So with the advance of tablebases, I believe that the 50 move rule should be revised. FIDE did it once in the rule to allow special positions, endgames, which would require more than 50 move rules. Then because some GMs started to complain FIDE took the rule away. I find it very narrow minded of FIDE and of people to strictly abide to 50 move rule and to not allow some specail positions to go beyond the 50 move rule if necessary. Men makes the rule, so why should not the rule be changed? Remember in the 13the Century, castling was not part of the rule of the game, and the Queen did not have such high mobility, it could only move one square, the rook also could only move to a maximum of 5 squares. And all these rules have been changed, and it made chess more interesting. I believe that the rule got reversed because these GMs felt threatened by computers, and it is more of a political bureaucracy than to have any brains and guts to accept that computers aided chess is here to stay. Let's get out of the modern dark ages, and move forward. Laurence
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