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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