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Subject: Re: Almasi shocks Shredder ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:59:42 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 03:19:55, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On August 11, 2005 at 02:45:07, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2005 at 01:07:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>... due to its very bad opening play. Such
>>>silly things can/should never happen in
>>>classical chess. It's just ridiculous.
>>>Kurt
>>
>>How come Shredder won several tournament titles?
>>How do you know Almasi plays decent chess openeings?
>
>     In a German forum it was reported that
>     "Shredder had after 3 moves a much better
>     and after 10 moves a won position". This
>     means for me that FRC (Chess960) even on
>     such a top level is somewhat ridiculous.
>     Kurt

Or maybe it means that slower time control than classical chess should be used
in FRC to prevent this type of errors(at least in the high level).

Uri



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