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Subject: Re: Almasi shocks Shredder ...

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 01:05:19 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 03:59:42, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

I thought the games were just rapid chess anyway?

Guenther



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