Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 03:25:40 11/13/99
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On November 12, 1999 at 14:21:51, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >50 moves rule is "rule of play", not "rule of game". That means that it can be >changed for the particular event by the TD (and of course that should be writteh >in the event rules before it starts), and played game will still be named >"chess". At least it was that way ~10 years ago, when FIDE rules said "50 moves, >with exception of 75 moves there, and there, and there, and TD can add more >exceptions". > >Of course I can easily modify my generator to produce DTC, not DTM, for those >endings where that is relevant. It will be much faster, also - 50 iterations >will be enough (right now it's on 160th iteration on KRNKNN, and I believe ~100 >more will be necessary). IIRC, in some 6-piece endings (KRBKRN ?), DTC can even be over 200 moves, according to Stiller's analysis.
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