Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:27:27 06/24/03
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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. > >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 do not think that people asked new players if they prefer FRC and not shuffle chess. If the target is not to learn opening than shuffle chess is also enough. I also think that the main strength of GM's is not opening theory and I believe that they can be better on similiar game when no theory is available. The value of theory is not so high and I expect the top commercial with no opening book to score more than 50% even against amateurs like Crafty or Yace. New comers are losing against GM's mainly because of reasons that are not theory. Uri
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