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Subject: Re: In Reference to: A Problem With Tablebases

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:45:37 04/05/00

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On April 05, 2000 at 15:40:13, KarinsDad wrote:

>On April 04, 2000 at 19:28:08, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>The 50 move rule never existed, it was later introduced during the time of
>>Morphy or Steinitz.  So if such a rule was made up, I cannot see why this rule
>>cannot be overturned in certain conditions.  One should not be too strict.
>>Laurence
>
>I agree.
>
>KarinsDad :)
>
>PS. Have you seen the new USCF rating calculation equations (not quite sure when
>they are going into effect or if they have already)? Yikes!

Can you post the equations, or at least give some more information?  I think I
remember reading something about them switching to the Glicko rating system
(which are also used on FICS), which is probably more accurate in many cases.



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