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Subject: Re: Tablebases are not perfect

Author: blass uri

Date: 22:53:13 10/07/98

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On October 08, 1998 at 00:13:15, jonathan Baxter wrote:


>This system will handle winning positions with mate lengths from 1 to
>126.
>Losing positions may be from "lost in 0" (checkmated) up to "lost in
>125".
>All draws are zero.

This is a mistake because the 50 moves rule should be considered.
There are positions of mate in N in KRB vs KR that are practically draw because
of the 50 move rule and the program may do mistake in this evaluation.

Uri





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