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Subject: Re: Will the first commercial program to support FRC be a big seler?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:57:48 02/06/04

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On February 06, 2004 at 17:35:31, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 06, 2004 at 17:24:35, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>I believe that the first top commercial program that support FRC and win a match
>>against Peter Svidler will be a big seler. What do you think?
>
>Who's going to buy it?
>
>Nobody plays FRC except for a few extrememly rare chess geeks.
>
>Ask 100 people on the street: "What is Fischer Random Chess?"
>
>If a single person of the 100 knows the answer, I would be astonished.

I happen to be in a chess club when I wrote this and just asked 30 players and
24 answered correctly.

Jorge



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