Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 01:06:34 06/22/03
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On June 22, 2003 at 03:41:09, Slater Wold wrote: >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 > >Don't ever try to please everyone at CCC, or even the slightest % of them. > >Or your life will be hell. So true :)
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