Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:10:05 02/06/04
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On February 06, 2004 at 17:57:48, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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. Did you take them out to the street first? ;-) Maybe the interest is greater than I think. Chess variants in general are uninteresting to me, but a lot of people here seem to like them. It's probably because I have enough trouble with the original game and don't want to waste my time learning all the variants for me. Perhaps others are more up to the challenge.
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