Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:21:08 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 09:16:11, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>>>I guess that the longest mates of 5 men must under 400 (note that there are only
>>>3 men to capture, 50_move_rule = 100 ply, (3+1)*100 = 400 ply).
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>>This is wrong because a pawn push "resets" the 50 moves counter.
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>>The rule is about 50 moves without a capture and without pushing a pawn.
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>You are right, I forgot the pawns. However, I guess that the limit is still
>under 400 plies.
>
>A question to you: Can Tiger reaches that limit without any problem? Thanks.
No. Tiger 14 was limited to 43 plies of lookahead, and Tiger 15 will be limited
to 65 plies.
Christophe
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