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Subject: Re: Shredder is the most popular program, but ........

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 22:48:57 07/27/05

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On July 28, 2005 at 00:44:22, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>... frankly spoken: I am like many other people
>not at all interested in FRC (Chess960) and so
>we do not bother about implementation of FRC in
>chess programs. Can you imagine that FRC will
>ever become so popular like classical chess?
>I do not understand the big noise about this -:)
>Regards
>Kurt


Frankly Spoken: the more I play FRC the more
interested I become, since classical Chess is
only for those that have the time to study chess
openings for more than 3 hours a day. I remember
back when I stated to play in tournament, I realized
that only those that had the time available were the
one that really progressed at chess, since I like other
grown up who had a real job did NOT had the time available
to come back from work and study opening for three to four
hours daily. Now with FRC I can even challenge players that
 are rated 200 rating points higher due to not having to memorize
openings. I just played 10 friendly games with a friend rated around
2100 by the USCF and he lost 6 games to me. He admitted that not knowing
what to do from the very opening was hard for him, and I reminded him that
that was the reason I I never progressed 10 years ago in chess.

PS: I didn't tell him that I studied more than 10 books since I left from
playing in tournaments, but none were Openings books, Just strategies, tactics,
and endings.

Jorge



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