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Subject: Re: question about 50 move rule, 6 man egtb, and Fide rules

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 11:37:17 05/12/05

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On May 12, 2005 at 14:09:32, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On May 12, 2005 at 06:08:22, Rafael Andrist wrote:
>
>>On May 12, 2005 at 04:46:43, Walter Faxon wrote:
>>
>>>Have any egtb's been generated with the current rule in mind?
>>
>>Yes. Search the CCC archives for "DTZ"
>
>One might note, that pure DTZ is not enough in general - for example for kqpkp.
>But a slightly changed DTZ generator (perhaps together with some additional
>logic in the access routines to take the half move counter into account) can do
>it.

This is of course right, and maybe my very short answer was misleading. I just
wanted to give a good search expression for the CCC archive - and "DTZ" will
lead to the relevant postings, one may also look for "DTZ50".

But I guess you mean kqpkq and not kqpkp.

regards
Rafael Andrist




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