Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.............

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Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.............

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..............helping out with the forum's FRC game here:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30439
We need all the good help that we can get. However, the idea is not to use computer assistance, but to use our own brains.
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Re: Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.........

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Graham Banks wrote:..............helping out with the forum's FRC game here:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30439
We need all the good help that we can get. However, the idea is not to use computer assistance, but to use our own brains.
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Re: Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.........

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The game is past the chess960 stage, one side has castled and the other has made a king move, so now normal chess rules apply. So if you were wary of the chess960 bit, you don't need to be :wink:

So please join in :)
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Re: Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.........

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Graham Banks wrote:..............helping out with the forum's FRC game here:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30439
We need all the good help that we can get. However, the idea is not to use computer assistance, but to use our own brains.
Graham, you mean, it is making sense, expecting, that a forum could by nature, based on fair play and legal behavior, play a game of chess? If over 70% have no shame in using progs out of darker, unclear, even perhaps criminal ancestry? How can one trust the 70% at all?
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Re: Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.........

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Rolf wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:..............helping out with the forum's FRC game here:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30439
We need all the good help that we can get. However, the idea is not to use computer assistance, but to use our own brains.
Graham, you mean, it is making sense, expecting, that a forum could by nature, based on fair play and legal behavior, play a game of chess? If over 70% have no shame in using progs out of darker, unclear, even perhaps criminal ancestry? How can one trust the 70% at all?
Seriously, why do you come here?
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Re: Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.........

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Rolf wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:..............helping out with the forum's FRC game here:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30439
We need all the good help that we can get. However, the idea is not to use computer assistance, but to use our own brains.
Graham, you mean, it is making sense, expecting, that a forum could by nature, based on fair play and legal behavior, play a game of chess? If over 70% have no shame in using progs out of darker, unclear, even perhaps criminal ancestry? How can one trust the 70% at all?
Come join Rolf. You may enjoy a good game of chess.
White has used two program so far and is a little ahead
of the Black team. The highest rated player in the game
is rated higher than the programs that have been played. :)

Best to you.

Gerold.
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Re: Rather than arguing about Robberlito, how about.........

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Rolf wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:..............helping out with the forum's FRC game here:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30439
We need all the good help that we can get. However, the idea is not to use computer assistance, but to use our own brains.
Graham, you mean, it is making sense, expecting, that a forum could by nature, based on fair play and legal behavior, play a game of chess? If over 70% have no shame in using progs out of darker, unclear, even perhaps criminal ancestry? How can one trust the 70% at all?
Many of those using Robbo and Ippo don't believe that they're clones and therefore don't see any problem using them.
On the other hand there would be a smaller number who would use them regardless.

Asking people contributing to a team game of FRC without using computer assistance is a request that you would hope they'd respect, but there is always the likelihood that somebody won't. Nothing that you can do about that, so no point worrying.

Cheers,
Graham.
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