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Subject: Re: CCT5 "award" nominees?

Author: José Carlos

Date: 07:33:24 01/20/03

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On January 20, 2003 at 10:29:09, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

  The term "theoretical novelty", in chess, has a special meaning: it's a
novelty that is good.
  So any random move can be a "novelty" but only good novelties are "theoretical
novelties".

  José C.



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