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Subject: Re: Fifty moves rule and tablebases

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:58:31 10/04/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 16:56:23, Ralf Poschmann wrote:

>My friend had in a tournament an endgame with two bishops against one knight.
>He tried to win this game, but after 50 moves it was a draw by the Fide rules.
>Is this rule also true in computer games, even if both computers use tablebases
>and can see the win of one part after more than 50 moves ?

The 50 non-reversible move rule also applys to computer chess.  It seems logical
that an exception would be made for computer/computer matches, but that has not
been done.



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