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Subject: Re: FRC_TheBaron_101 Vs Fritz8 (Castling vs Not Castling rules)

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 12:06:26 06/24/03

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On June 24, 2003 at 14:55:14, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On June 24, 2003 at 14:22:01, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>Hi Uri,
>>
>>On June 24, 2003 at 13:30:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>It seems that you assume that people tend to prefer FRC when no money is
>>>involved.
>>>I think that you are wrong here.
>
>Not really, it was just a silly responce to a silly outburst. :)

Not as silly as your Comparisons often are :)

>
>>A lot of new players would prefer FRC because there would be no need
>>to learn openings from a lot of books. FRC will therefore make chess
>>more attractive to a lot of new fans, who can start very soon playing
>>attractive games of FRC.
>
>I agree with you, but I think we also have reason to respect the classic subset
>because it has such a long history. Lots of the great masters have devoted
>countless hours to the analysis of the opening position, finding great gambits
>and such.
>
>No reason to flush this down the toilet, I'm sure it has its own appeal, to
>some. At the same time there should be room to experiment and evolve the game.
>
>Surely there must be a bit of tolerance towards eachother?
>
>So how come things always turn black and white in here, can't we have CCC in
>colour? :)
>
>-S.



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