Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 05:06:28 12/12/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 19:09:17, Chessfun wrote:
>On December 11, 2000 at 07:34:42, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>On December 11, 2000 at 06:13:27, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On December 11, 2000 at 06:04:37, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have seen it mentioned here many times, but actually I don't have any idea
>>>>what it is? Is it may be special blitz level? Fisherrandom?
>>>>
>>>>thanks Jouni
>>>
>>>There are many types of wild.
>>>Such as loser's chess and randoms.
>>>Go to ICC as a guest or member and type "help wild"
>>>and you'll get a list of various wild games.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>On Fics "wild" is defined as normal chess with different starting positions, for
>>example fisher random, or black king on d8, queen on e8 else normal setup, or
>>"backward chess", pawns start on 7th rank.
>>Chess variants with different playing rules have distinct names like "suicide"
>>or "crazyhouse".
>
>While they all have various names including the two you quoted,
>I think what I wrote answers the question that was posted.
>
>Sarah.
Fics :
Chess
/ \
/ \
/ Normal chess
/
/
Chess variants
/ \ \
/ \ \
/ \ \
/ | \
Wild suicide bughouse ....
ICC :
Chess
/ \
/ \
/ Normal chess
/
/
Wild
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ |
Wild-5 Wild-23(crazyhouse) ...
It is a matter of definition. You answered with ICC in mind, I with Fics.
I prefer Fics for the Variants, competition in suicide, crazyhouse, bughouse and
wild5 is better IMVHO.
Regards,
Georg :)
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