Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:20:36 07/27/03
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On July 27, 2003 at 10:02:21, Sune Fischer wrote: >On July 27, 2003 at 08:24:24, Vincent Diepeveen 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. >> >>Please stop such crap postings. >> >>Everyone knows that there is perhaps a 100 persons, from which half in this >>forum, doing for fun one day FRC, whereas there is a hundreds of millions that >>likes to keep updated upon how things go in real chess. >> >>The market difference is a factor 1 million and that ain't a joke. > >I think that could well be the present senario, but you have to keep an eye on >the trend. >There is a trend towards faster time controls, towards incremental clocks (I >hate those btw.), and maybe also towards new variants as a weapon against the >mountains of litterature that is slowly suffacating the game. Partly this is a nonsense you're mentionning here because thanks to the improved theory there is more lines that you can play at tournament time control. If you would live around 1900 then you had to play 1.e4,e5 and you were forced to accept sacrafices out of politeness. There is more possible now, which gives in the end the stronger players the chance more to show how good they are than the opening miracles. Take the dutch grandmaster Jan Timman who a few years ago could only make a good show by brilliant openingsplay and after that show a level similar to my level when i do not have worked at diep until 4 AM like i did last week (therefore bad for my 2.5 out of 5 score currently in the dutch championships). But now because of the many opening lines possible Jan is not #2 rated at the FIDE list but more like #90. Therefore the advances in theory are only a good thing. Not a bad thing! >>You can't live from something that doesn't get practiced by persons. > >Seaking of which, why on earth are you programming an engine to play on 500 >CPUs? >Nobody has 500 CPU to use with Diep, there are _zero_ customers for such a >thing. The moves that it produces at such systems will be understood by all those hundreds of millions because it's following the chess game rules from the normal openingsposition. >> There is no >>FRC clubs. There is no international competition with GMs playing FRC for money. >>There is no nothing about it. It is a joke to say that it would attract persons. >>It is the usual toying. > >Right, speaking of which... >-S.
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