Author: Yakov Konoval
Date: 22:49:08 10/17/05
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On October 17, 2005 at 14:56:19, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 17, 2005 at 14:39:55, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>fascinating. :-) I wonder where the limit is. I can't imagine a win in 500 moves >>even with 12-men. Do you have any basis for speculation regarding this? >> >>Joachim > >I guess that there is a win in 500 moves even with the 8 piece tablebases and >maybe even with the 7 piece tablebases. > >I am not sure what is the maximal distance to conversion in 3,4,5 piece >tablebases but it seems that usually the maximal distace to conversion is more >than multiplied by 2 with every piece that we add. > >Uri Just 1 funny example: 1*2*3 = 3! 2*3*4 = 4! 4*5*6 = 5! 8*9*10= 6! but 16*17*18 <> 7! For 64-piece tablebases MaxDTC = 1. I think, that 290-move record may be improved, but there are no position with MaxDTC >= 243*2. By the way, how long is MaxDTM for chess problems ? Yakov
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