Author: Yakov Konoval
Date: 01:41:45 10/18/05
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On October 18, 2005 at 04:01:23, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >On October 18, 2005 at 01:49:08, Yakov Konoval wrote: > >>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! -> yes, it's the definition >2*3*4 = 4! -> it's the definition of "!" again >4*5*6 = 5! -> because 6=1*2*3 >8*9*10= 6! -> 8=2*4, 9=3*3, 10=2*5, so all composant from 2*3*4*5*6 is in >but 16*17*18 <> 7! -> sure, 17 is prime and no factor of 7! can be 17 > >You can find billions of random things like this in theory numbers, in fact >nothing interresting ... > > I agree with you, nothing interesting. This is just analogy with EGTs: 3 man - MaxDTC = 16 4 man - MaxDTC = 34 (>16*2) 5 man - MaxDTC = 82 (>34*2) 6 man - MaxDTC = 243 (>82*2) 7-man - MaxDTC = ??? (but I think, < 243*2) >> >> >>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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