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Subject: Re: What Happened to Chess? FRC is not Chess!

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 19:23:54 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 21:59:19, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>>It's another game "checking" 960 different ways to "pawn" itself off as
>>chess..sigh..
>
>Except from the different casteling rules it is chess, it is just not classic
>chess... whether you like it or not is a matter of taste, but your dislike or
>like of the variant does not make it any better or worse, it just is.
>
>Regards
>Jonas

Nothing just *is* Jonas, it's a variant, and it will fade away in time, to be
replaced with a truly more advanced form of chess, sometime this century.

I can't solve chess as it is now, and no one else can either, FRC is a fad, in
fashion today, and forgotten tomorrow.

FRC is popular for a few reasons, Bobby Fischer, it's 960x different, it may or
may not trip up computers, it breaks opening theory, the main reason Fischer
claims it's better...sigh...

Terry



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