Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 09:58:49 11/13/99
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KRNKNN: > 240 (243? all my records are in the office) KRBKNN: > 220 (226?) But the fact is that if you have to take into account 50 moves rule, than DTC>50 is a draw. So you can stop the generator not after full stabilization, but after 50 iterations. Eugene On November 13, 1999 at 06:25:40, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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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