Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 10:30:05 06/20/05
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On June 20, 2005 at 12:57:13, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: >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. it is a political decision not yet to support Chess960, not one by content. >The main effect of Chess960, destroying the human advantage of memory (opening >experience and opening theory), is achieved by shuffle chess as well. Nothing is destroyed. Start position 518 (classical chess) is included as well, if you like with all its theory. And please note that there are more aspects in chess than only to reproduce book moves. Creative playing will start from the very beginning in Chess960, so being attractive for creative people and teens, which do not have so much time or did not like to invest so much time to learn huge databases of opening moves. > 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. I do not like to have two equal colored Bishops, I do not like to have the King been placed into a corner, I do not like to have castling abilities removed from the game. >Why limit the idea to 960 positions, when 8.3 million are available? If you are not satisfied with that, you seem to be an ideal candidate for my invention of "Capablanca Random Chess" which also is included in SMIRF. Reinhard.
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