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Subject: Re: CCT5 "award" nominees?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:29:09 01/20/03

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On January 20, 2003 at 10:05:41, Arturo Ochoa wrote:

>
>>Worst theoretical novelty:
>>
>>6...Rb8 in Ruffian-Diep.  Either a bug in Vincent's book building code, or
>>garbage in the PGN he used to generate it.
>>
>[D]rnbqk1r1/pp2ppbp/2p2np1/3p4/2PP4/2N1PN2/PP2BPPP/R1BQK2R w KQq -
>>
>>
>>-Peter
>
>Hello:
>
>To call it the worst theoritical novelty is a mess.... because it was not a
>novelty, it was a severe bug...

If we define something that was never played in the past as a novelty then it is
clearly a novelty by definition.

The fact that the move is because of a bug does not change it.

Uri



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