Author: Günther Simon
Date: 05:40:59 06/24/03
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On June 24, 2003 at 08:30:27, Sune Fischer wrote: >On June 24, 2003 at 06:54:40, Günther Simon wrote: > >>On June 23, 2003 at 19:13:22, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On June 23, 2003 at 19:08:28, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>For this game I used an Athlon 1.2 GHz for FRC_TheBaron and a Celeron 433 MHz >>>>for Fritz 8.0.0.8. After FRC_TheBaron castled in move 14.0-0-0 Queen side Fritz8 >>>>did NOT wanted to continued, therefore I set Up the position from that move on >>>>to allow Fritz8 to continue the game, and the game was won on the endgame stage. >> >>IMO this is ridiculous, Fritz 8 just had _lost_ ,as he refused to play on, >>because he even did not know the rules of the game he was playing... >>(This are the rules for all games BTW, if you cannot react to a regular >>move, you lose, period.) > >Well you are correct about that, strictly speaking. >But since Fritz doesn't know the rules we have to cut it some slack, just to get >a feel for its potential. > >I do think this match is half way pointless for another reason though. >If Fritz had lost, it would have been because "Fritz was playing a different >game", so it's like a no-win situation for The Baron. > >>I cannot understand why some people completely lost their sense of logic >>regarding FRC, Shuffle Chess and Normal Chess. >>Why they cannot recognize, that they are simply playing different games, >>with different rules?? > >I think the problem is this: >The FRC championship is like the world championship, the Chess championship is >like the European championship. Because FRC includes chess, just like the World >includes Europe. :) > >If the European champions are not interested in fighting for the world cup, then >obviously they can't become world champs. It's a bit of a paradox if the World >champ can't beat the European champ though :) Thanks God, some one here understood what I was talking about :) Nice example BTW... Regards, Günther
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