Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 15:27:36 02/06/04
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On February 06, 2004 at 18:10:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I also asked the same 30 people if they would buy Commercial programs that support FRC, 13 answered that if it was in addition to the standard chess program like Fritz 9 plus FRC or Shredder9 plus FRC they would buy it. But 9 answered that they have problem beating amateur programs and to spend money on a program that is much stronger than they are (Like Fritz 8 or the latest version of Shredder 8 is for GM and IM. Only a few of them (8) answered that they already have a hard time memorizing most of the openings for standard chess and because of that FRC will become more popular in the future. Pichard
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