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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:56:07 02/06/04

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On February 06, 2004 at 18:42:43, Sune Fischer 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?
>
>Those interested in chess software.
>
>>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.
>
>You can prove anything with statistics this way.
>
>Just ask people in the street to explain the correct castle rules :)
>
>-S.

Ask them also to explain the correct castle rules in FRC and I expect that less
than 10% of the people who know the castle rules in normal chess will know the
catle rules in FRC.

Uri



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