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Subject: Re: Tablesbases and the 50 move rule

Author: Greg Simpson

Date: 13:59:18 12/12/05

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On December 12, 2005 at 16:46:27, Greg Simpson wrote:

>You'd be looking past a conversion in your search, all you'd know is that there
>is a mate in, say, 139 if you trade down to five pieces.  You could trace the
>move sequence to see how far it is into the 139 moves to another conversion, but
>that could take too much time.  There could be many lines that need to be
>discarded as pv because the check failed.
>
>There may be ways around this that don't require new TBs, but it would be nice
>if there were a standard solution.

Ok, 139 is too many, that would have to be a draw, I think.  Make it 80.



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