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Subject: Re: Long tablebase wins and the 50 move rule...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:12:34 12/22/00

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On December 23, 2000 at 00:38:28, Paul Byrne wrote:

>I've been looking at endgame tables for ICC's Losers chess lately and
>discovered that a number of "obvious" draws are really wins.  91 moves
>being the longest so far.  Well past the 50 move draw rule.
>
>Question is, how do people deal with this (or not deal with it) in their
>programs?
>
>-paul
>
>For those interested, white to move and win in 91 moves:
>
>[D]6N1/8/4k3/8/2p5/2P5/8/K7 w - - 0 1

Actually, it's a mate in 21 moves.

Crafty v17.14

White(1): epdpfga epd.epd ped.out
EG fault: a problem occurred during epdpfga processing
White(1): epdpfga epd.epd ped.out
PFGA: EPD record: 1
end-game phase
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 30.00 (3:00)
         nss  depth   time  score   variation (1)
                2     0.00  Mat21   1. Kb2 <HT>
                2->   0.01  Mat21   1. Kb2 <HT>
                3     0.01  Mat21   1. Kb2 <HT>
                3->   0.01  Mat21   1. Kb2 <HT>
                4     0.01  Mat21   1. Kb2 <HT>
                4->   0.02  Mat21   1. Kb2 <HT>
              time=0.02  cpu=100%  mat=3  n=9  fh=100%  nps=10000
              ext-> checks=0 recaps=0 pawns=0 1rep=0 thrt:0
              predicted=0  nodes=9  evals=2
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=2  successful=2



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