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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 19:50:47 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 22:23:54, Terry McCracken wrote:

>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


Terry, when was the last time that you really had time to study and memorize an
Openings books? Frankly, the majority of the chess players are working class
people, and don't have plenty of time to really study new opening's theories
which are many and boring.


PS: Honestly that is the main reason why Chess960 is becoming so popular. Not
because of Bobby Fischer, but because we realize that we don't have to waste our
precious time memorizing Openings :-)

Jorge



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