Getting rid of the 50 move rule

[Arpad Rusz]

Do you know an engine which can be set to always ignore the 50 move rule and not only in the Syzygy TB's? If I am not mistaken, after switching of the Syzygy50MoveRule UCI option in Stockfish, the engine still uses the rule.

[syzygy]

Do you know an engine which can be set to always ignore the 50 move rule and not only in the Syzygy TB's? If I am not mistaken, after switching of the Syzygy50MoveRule UCI option in Stockfish, the engine still uses the rule.

You are not mistaken.

If you are able to compile Stockfish from source, then simply delete lines 1073 and 1074 in position.cpp:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... 1073-L1074

Of course you might want to use Cfish instead, in which the TB/multipv problem that you raised quite a while ago has been fixed. (It turned out to be easier to fix than I had initially thought.)

In Cfish, remove these lines:
https://github.com/syzygy1/Cfish/blob/f ... 1404-L1408

In Cfish disabling the 50-move rule might give problems if you play a game that exceeds the 50-move rule. But analysing positions should work fine.

[Nordlandia]

Ronald

If you have time, please make it possible to generate syzygy in DTM format.

I find depth to mate format very useful for Fritz Let's Check Database
i.e engine valuations get cached with exact distance to mate.

In my case, 5-men is good enough to start with.

[syzygy]

If you have time, please make it possible to generate syzygy in DTM format.

Stop stalking me now. Thanks.

[Arpad Rusz]

Thanks, Ronald!