Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 07:19:35 04/30/04
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On April 30, 2004 at 10:02:02, margolies,marc wrote: >both questions are reasonable. >1) having been to many tournaments, I can tell you that even when 200 boards are >in the room that a much fewer number are critical to the outcome of the >tournament. Also that amomg those critical boards even fewer would have players >whose skills would necessitate the application of the **progress** definition >which I presented here. >A practical application of the new rule might only concern the top 100 players >in the world plus computer players. In an Olympiad,eg, only the top board of a >team might be observed in this way for long term progress. > >2) I agree that a critical mass of tablebase generation must happen before such >a rule is enacted. But I also believe that rule changes happen slowly and in >response to a change in conditions of over-the-board play. >The short answer is that I am in no rush to see this rule enacted. By the time >enough arbiters could ever find this idea attractive ( and this is possible >because the objective criteria which I proffered actually lessens their need for >sophisticated EG understanding) the tablebase resources will probably be >existant. If the idea of the rule is attractive enough, itcould also drive a >market for tablebase generation. > >-marc Suppose the arbiter only has room for a subset of all the TBs, few people actually have room for them all currently. So a tournament might not be possible without a big investment in hardware, or the alternative is nobody will be able to follow the FIDE rules. I suppose the arbiter could publish a list before the tournament begins, to tell everybody which TBs he has on his computer, then for the rest the x-move rule applies. Now all the players can keep this list by their side while they play, to sneak a peak at which endgames they can safely go into and which to avoid. Of course if I've studied how to mate with RN vs NN and the stupid arbiter doesn't have that on his computer I will instantly complain to FIDE. All in all a very neatly thoughtout mess :) -S.
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