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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