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Subject: Re: if they ain't nunn, what the heck are they

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 17:07:56 12/13/05

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On December 13, 2005 at 17:57:34, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>On December 13, 2005 at 17:36:02, David Dahlem wrote:
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>>On December 13, 2005 at 16:56:20, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
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>>>hee hee. no, it comes standard with fritz 8 and 9.. Maybe chessbase snuck in 5
>>>Pro-fritz openings:)
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>>Chessbase is not Nunn! Nunn himself has said he doesn't know where this 25
>>opening set came from. :-)
>>
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>really! they call it the "nunn" and the "nunn2". Maybe nunn should keep quite
>and sue for royalties

I'm not sure a set of opening lines can be copyrighted. Nevertheless, i think
Chessbase used an inapproaite name for their collection of 25 opening lines,
leading to the confusion. :-)

Regards
Dave

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>>Regards
>>Dave
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>>>
>>>On December 13, 2005 at 16:53:29, Sune Larsson wrote:
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>>>>On December 13, 2005 at 16:41:14, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
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>>>>>not just tactical openings of course
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I thought the real - original Nunn2 test consisted of 20 positions - not
>>>> 25...?? This "Nunn2 - 25 positions" has "source unknown" - AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>> /S



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