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Subject: Re: FRC: Last try, to end the discussion

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 00:41:09 06/22/03

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On June 22, 2003 at 01:31:39, Stefan Pohl wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>To end the discussion about my FRC-rankinglist (www.frc-list.beep.de) I want to
>say this:
>
>1) I said on my homepage, that the used engines are not able to play real FRC,
>because they dont know the FRC-castling-rules.
>2) I never wanted to find the FRC-worldchampion. I only try to create the FIRST
>and ONLY FRC-computer-rankinglist. But not because I want to sabotage FRC (what
>a strange, paranoic idea...), but because of making FRC more popular!
>3) I use only 15 (of 960) possible FRC-positions, because of the
>castling-problem (I said that on my homepage, too!), but the used positions are
>FRC.
>4) The rankinglist is a real FRC-rankinglist, because the engines can castle in
>that 15 positions (and they do!) and so the play REAL FRC.
>5) It is wrong to say, that my rankinglist with only 15 of 960 possible
>positions is no real FRC! In computertournaments (normal chess) only a small
>part of all possible openings and openingmoves are played. Nobody says: "Ooops,
>no engine played aljechin's defense, that tournament is no real chess!" (another
>strange idea...)
>6) When the opening-positions are FRC and all engines play the castles (as they
>are defined in the FRC-rules) the tournament is FRC. So my tournament and my
>rankinglist are FRC. And I will call it FRC-rankinglist now and forever...
>7) And finally: Come on, its FRC, not a holy war!
>
>Greetings - Stefan Pohl

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