Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 18:08:56 04/21/99
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On April 21, 1999 at 13:21:07, William H Rogers wrote: >I just remembered something. I think it was USCF or FIDE on or the other was >considering lengthing the 50 move rule, because computers can still find a win >even after that many moves. I don't know if it's in effect yet, but it was >brought up as a possible change to the rules. Who knows? This was done a long time ago, after Ken Thompson figured out that KRB vs KR can take longer than 50 moves in some cases. The players hated this, and as more information was discovered about these endings, which included very long conversion distances in some cases, FIDE went back to the 50-move rule for everything. bruce
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