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[Dan Cooper]

The problem isn't the rules, but that no tournament manager supports adjudication via Syzygy. The purpose of adjudication is to shorten the game length. The adjudication isn't meant to circumvent the standard rules of chess but apply them in a way to automatically create a result so we don't have to watch a drawn 5-man position play out on the board until bare kings or a repetition.

Allowing Gaviota to adjudicate cursed wins in this way certainly goes against the spirit of the TCEC rules and the understanding of every chess author that submits his engine to the competition.

The merits of the 50-move rule in engine competitions are outside the scope of this debate.