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Subject: Pleeeeease SAVE our old traditional classic chess!!!!!!!!!!! NT

Author: Eran

Date: 06:17:22 07/26/03

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On July 26, 2003 at 08:54:34, Eye Witness wrote:

>On July 26, 2003 at 02:33:56, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>X3D fritz is coming out soon with the match against Kasparov, but a top Program
>>that support FRC will have a better sale in my opinion. It is not just a matter
>>of buying an additional X3D glasses and looking cool, but the first top program
>>that support FRC will be more popular, not only because of GM Peter Leko; but
>>because it will be the first top program playing competitive FRC chess. What
>>makes it so great is that most of us don't need to memorize any long opening
>>variation and it is already catching our imagination.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>It's not catching my imagination, i haven't studied chess 15 years just to
>switch to some variant of the game.  What is the purpose of you switching when
>you haven't mastered the original version of the game.  FRC is just an excuse
>for people to make themselves feel better, by telling themselves that they lose
>because they don't know the openings well enough, and telling themselves theyd
>be a master if they didn't have to learn opening theory.  Further removing
>opening theory from the game makes it a less difficult game.  Chess is great
>because it is HARD! Why on earth would anyone want to dumb down the game?



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