Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 16:10:48 02/06/04
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On February 06, 2004 at 18:56:07, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Very likely, but at least that question would be more to the point :) I don't think FRC is going to replace orthodox chess any time soon, but there is no need to hammer it down because of that. It's not like chess is the biggest sport in the world anyway, still doesn't mean it isn't a great fun to play :) -S. >Uri
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