Author: Roman Hartmann
Date: 23:22:20 05/23/05
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On May 23, 2005 at 14:05:59, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Uri, > >>>There is no such way with 500 moves. Impossible in human chess following FIDE >>>rules. Or did you mean 500 moves of depth? :) Sorry. >> >>It is possible. >> >>You can get the following position after 150 moves. >>Imagine that white does not agree to draw and push a pawn every 50 moves. >> >>The game can be finished easily after more than 500 moves from the first move. >> >>[D]7k/5p2/5K2/8/8/7P/4B2P/8 w - - 0 1 > >by the way, isn't the longest known game (of course constructed) of chess over >2000 moves long, I think I have something like that in mind. At Tim Krabbe's >site it is even stated that it can take 5949 moves. (I believe with correct >usage of the 50 move rule) - Quark would crash after 500 moves. I have heard >that some ChessBase engines crash already after 256 moves. I guess the magic number for ChessBase engines is 260. Yesterday GM Yoes was playing comp Fritz (one of the few engines which is allowed to play in main hall) on playchess. The position was a dead draw but the engine didn't offer a draw and Yoes played on probably trying to get a draw by repetition. After 260 Moves Fritz stopped moving and lost the game. Roman
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