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Subject: Re: KRBKNN ... and KRNKNN

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 10:38:00 04/30/04

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what if the power fails in the chess hall
what if the arbiter has really, really bad gastric problems and has to leave?
what if an evil genius crazy-glued kasparov's king to the square b3?
jesus, Sune, I just couldn't guess what may happen next. But is this a novel or
a discussion of Chess Rules?
:P

On April 30, 2004 at 13:31:57, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On April 30, 2004 at 13:06:30, Victor Zakharov wrote:
>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Tablebases can be accessible via Internet from some server.
>>BTW, we are going to provide on-line access to 6-men tablebases in May.
>>
>>Victor
>
>What if the server is down or goes down in the middle of a game?
>What if there is no internet connection at the location?
>
>:)
>
>-S.



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