Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 00:30:52 02/06/00
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On February 06, 2000 at 02:44:59, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On February 06, 2000 at 02:33:35, Pete R. wrote: > >>On February 06, 2000 at 01:41:01, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>So it looks that for now practical limit is 6-man TBs, if you can spend tens of >>>gigabytes (hundreds, when we'll have more) for them. >> >>Are you creating 6-man TBs with pawns, e.g. KRPKRP? > >At this point, I highly doubt it. Those would require all of the promoted cases >to be used. > >I thought that FIDE's rules allowed a TD to specify an optional extension to the >fifty-move rule, but since this is apparently no longer the case (the rule has >been revised again to exclude this possibility), Eugene might want to give some >thought to restandardizing on distance to conversion. Distance to mate should work (at least exactly as DTC does...), as long as the generator has knowledge of the 50-move rule. It may be really hard to do this, but, for example, you could take a few moves longer to reach mate because of an un-optimal pawn push/capture, but it would save you from a draw. (And that's probably a really bad sentence.)
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