| Major Cat 2005-10-21, 2:31 am |
| Ray Gordon wrote:
quote:
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> Castling in Fischer Random is just plain weird.
Just for clarification, I would like to state that
I have no axe to grind against Mr. Fischer. In fact,
the _evolution_ of his thinking regarding Baseline
Chess has been more than welcome by me. Yes, he did
start out as a maximalist chess revolutionary (like
Capablanca). However, he has been gravitating towards
a minimalist chess change platform for some time now.
Now, here is what I found on the Internet the other
day:
"how come they didn't like to use fischer name ... bit
weird .. fischer himself says that only a certain number
of the positions should be used, and it isn't that many,
under 20 i think i remember him saying .. so their name
is stupid i reckon, if it ever become the standard chess
for the world, which i highly doubt, the inventor thinks
most of the start positions should not be used."
If there is any truth to the above quote, I would _love_
to hear more about it from Mr. Fischer or some other
person in the know. For all we know, the "weirdness" of
Mr. Fischer's castling rules may be rendered harmless
or irrelevant if the "20 or so positions" are the "right"
ones (e.g., Chess18) ! 8> )
Major Cat
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