Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 14:07:57 04/04/00
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On April 04, 2000 at 16:05:56, Bruce Moreland wrote: >The rule was changed back because strong chess players didn't like it. The big >problem was KRB vs KR, which turns out to have an optimax of more than 50 moves. > The players rebelled against the idea of playing this out further, when the >odds of actually starting in one of the > 50-move positions are low. In short, >the odds that you'd really "need" 50 moves are much lower than the odds that >you'd get into a more normal variant of this ending and have to suffer for twice >as long, resulting in degraded play in later rounds of your tournament, for no >real reason. > >I think it makes perfect sense to keep the rule the way it is, rather than >allowing for freakish cases invented by computers. Let the humans play the game >in a manner that is most pleasant for them. I agree for humans. The 50-move rule should apply to them, every time. However, I think that if a computer is playing and announces mate from the TBs, the game should be over immediately, even if it's mate in 573 (We probably don't want to play that out anyway.), and even if the 50-move rule would interfere in the meantime.
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