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Subject: Re: 7 men tablebase

Author: William Penn

Date: 06:27:48 04/13/05

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On April 13, 2005 at 01:10:27, Andrew Walker wrote:

>I'm not sure if the calculations were done recently or not, however there's a
>nice
>piece on the 4 knights vs queen tablebase computed by Marc Bourzutschky at
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary.htm, including a white to mate in 85
>moves and a mutual zugwang. Nice!
>
>Andrew

It seems to me that until FIDE changes the laws of chess to allow endings longer
than 50 moves, it is pointless to extend the tablebases further. Even some of
the 4-5-6-men tablebases don't apply to a real game. If it takes more than 50
moves without a capture or pawn move, then it's a draw according to FIDE.
WP



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