Author: stuart taylor
Date: 05:00:58 10/22/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 02:38:30, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On October 22, 2000 at 01:59:31, Gregor Overney wrote: > >>How old is computer chess? 17th or 18th century? >> >>BTW. How old is chess? >> >>Gregor > >Computer chess as we understand it today is a mid to late 20th century >phenomenon. Chess as it is played today is only a hundred years old. By that I >mean--chess with clocks and time limits plus the "modern" understanding of >attack and defense. That stuff from a thousand years ago wasn't chess as we play >it. > >Tim "cybernetic man" Frohlick NO! rules about tournament can and do change all the time, so does opening theory and other chess knowledge. Why not say 10 years? atleast 30 years? or since last chess publication? Why not consider notation as a change in the game of chess? S.Taylor
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