Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 10:21:17 09/26/00
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On September 26, 2000 at 12:29:04, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On September 26, 2000 at 11:25:03, Steffen Jakob wrote: > >>[D]8/6k1/p5P1/1p5K/1P6/8/8/8 b >> >>Here Hossa continued with 5... Kf6 which is indeed losing. All moves seem to be >>losing here. But when I forced 5... b5 6. bxa5 Hossa gave a score of mate in 54! >> >>How is this such a position handled in tournament chess? Is this a draw (I think >>the rules have changed here several times?!)? If it's a draw then I will change >>my tablebase probe code to return a draw score if the mate distance is > 50. > >You mean 5. ... a5, which goes into a QP vs Q ending. As was pointed out in >another post, your example is probably moot here since the pawn gets to move and >resets the counter, but even if it doesn't, you can ignore this case. > >We currently have DTM tables, and you you assume that DTM > 50 is a draw you'll >get worse results than if you leave it alone. You'll play into positions where >your opponent can convert in under 50 moves, and against humans you'll avoid >endings that they will mess up. Yes, but it would be nice to have tables where a draw score is stored if the conversion is not possible. I assume that those tables would be harder to create. Greetings, Steffen.
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