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Subject: Re: Shufflechess ? Chess960 is compatible !

Author: Steve Glanzfeld

Date: 09:57:13 06/20/05

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On June 20, 2005 at 01:36:49, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>Just such individualists like you should be more tolerant towards other such
>people, especially when the traditional world would stay compatibly untouched.

Yes.. I'm not intolerant. All the best for Chess960. I just wanted to give a
realistic opinion (from an overall viewpoint), why the Fritz GUI most probably
won't support it very soon.

The main effect of Chess960, destroying the human advantage of memory (opening
experience and opening theory), is achieved by shuffle chess as well. But it
offers 2,880 positions, not just 960. When you go one step further removing w/b
symmetry, it can offer 2,880^2 = 8,294,400 different starting positions.

Why limit the idea to 960 positions, when 8.3 million are available?

Steve



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