Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 10:49:35 04/30/04
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On April 30, 2004 at 13:38:00, margolies,marc wrote: >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 Actually I am quite serious, you introduce so many factors that the probability of one of them failing is something to consider. Of course if a bomb hits or the lights go out, that stops the games, but it really should take something of that magnitude and not just a distant server going down, which quite frankly happens all the time. -S. >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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