Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:39:25 11/13/99
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On November 13, 1999 at 03:16:58, Dave Gomboc wrote: >I don't agree with your interpretation. FIDE rules stipulate that a tournament >director may announce in advance of the tournament that players who reach >certain endings may be given more than 50 moves to attempt to win them. For >each such ending, the TD has to indicate how many moves will be allowed. [snip] >50 moves is a good number for humans. That doesn't make it a holy grail for >machines. If a program cannot be configured to take into account TD-specified >n-moves-without-pawn-push-or-capture-until-draw values in certain endings, it is >that program's author's fault only. This doesn't sound terribly difficult to >implement, but with the ready availabilty of code to read tablebases already, it >does seem rather pointless. [snip] The reason for discarding the 50-move rule should not be that some free code that many programs happen to use doesn't take it into account. I am not in favor of changing the commonly used rules because of anyone's laziness, including my own. Also, these programs exist in context with the rest of the chess players on the earth. We should all play the same game. We do not need to distinguish our game from the human game. I should be able to focus my efforts on making the strongest player possible, I should not have to deal with two sets of rules, depending upon the physiology of my opponent. bruce
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