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Subject: Re: Can I Learn Chess Without Lots Of Memorization? Chess960 / FRC !

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 03:39:00 11/08/05

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On November 08, 2005 at 05:54:45, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 08, 2005 at 05:20:29, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>Try Fischer Random Chess.
>>
>>Reinhard.
>
>I believe that every human player who is in the best 1% in one of the games can
>be in the best 10% in the second game.
>
>The importance of theory is limited.

Very true, except on the highest levels.

>Chess or FRC chess is mainly about tactics.

Yes.  The only phase of the game where exact memorisation really pays off
for average players is the endgame, which is the same in FRC as in chess.

Tord



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