Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 10:26:14 06/22/03
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On June 22, 2003 at 10:18:12, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 22, 2003 at 09:05:16, Dana Turnmire wrote: > >>Even as a lower class tournament player I remember going over my favorite >>English Opening, Orthodox Defense (Lasker Variation), or Caro-Kann Defense >>racking my brains trying to remember every variation I might run into. At the >>professional level it must be maddening. The strange paradox is computer chess >>may actually be the stimulus that kills classical chess as the mainstream >>popular form. >> >>Now that even grandmasters are starting to be dominated by desktop computer >>programs what is there left to be accomplished? Computers may very well prove >>to be just as dominating in FRC as Classical chess but at least the computers >>will have to start at an even playing field without storing millions of opening >>moves that would be impossible for any human to memorize in order to avoid >>falling into a trap or some huge disadvantage before move 10. I'm sure >>classical chess will always be played but I sense FRC will replace it sometime >>in the future. >> >>The real losers will be the publishers of Openings Manuals. One question. How >>long will it be before an opening manual is published on Fischer Random Chess >>Openings (FRCO 1)? > >I think that the influence of opening book is not so big. > >At least with white it is easy to get the opponent out of book in a few moves >and get an equal position. > >Uri Didn't Kasparov make one out of order move in the Caro-Kann against Deep Blue before he realized he had blundered into a lost postion?
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