Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 20:07:39 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 22:50:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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 Capablanca, remember him? He too didn't put much time on the openings, instead he went on principles, which he had a deep understanding. Instead he put his time to endgame study, as that is the most subtle and complex part of chess. Would he do it differently today? Maybe, but I bet he wouldn't waste nearly as much time on long opening lines, just what he needed and back to the endgame. Capablanca was probably the greatest natural chess genius the world has ever known. The Einstein of Chess! Don't believe me? Ask Fischer!;-) Terry
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