Who is Jiří Fridrich?

[CFOPnotFridrich]

Did you know that at the first Rubik's Cube World Championships (Budapest 1982)...

... Guus Razoux Schultz finished second using the method Cross + F2L pairs?

... Jiří Fridrich finished tenth making use of a primitive layer-by-layer method? :fp

David Singmaster wrote:

CUBIC CIRCULAR

A quarterly newsletter for Rubik Cube addicts

Issue 3 & 4 Spring & Summer 1982
[...]
The first Rubik's Cube World Championship was held in Budapest on 5 June 1982.
[...]
I asked all the contestants what algorithm they used. Borsos' algorithm was unclear to me.
[...]
The following descriptions assume doing the D face first, but this doesn't mean they hold it that way. I write DC for D corners, ME for middle edges, etc. The most popular method was to do DC, UC, U & D E, ME
[...]
Variants of the D, M, U layer method were used by Fridrich, Serbenski and Trajber. Chilvers did DC, DE, U, M. Razoux Schultz did DE, DC & ME together, U [...]. Petrus does a 2 × 2 × 3 block then orients edges, then orients corners, then completes D & M and then U. [...] He gets a 57 move average.
[...]
CUBIC CANNABIS

Rubik Cubes were banned at Wandsworth Prison, London, after one was found to be stuffed with cannabis!

Did you know that...
... Jozsef Borsos (Yugoslavia) was using the keyhole method?

... in the Netherlands the CFOP method was called Treep-Dockhorn method
or Dockhorn-Treep method after Kurt Dockhorn and Anneke Treep?

... in early 1981 when CFOP was invented Anneke was a 16-year old schoolgirl?

... in 1982 Frans Schiereck officially published the Dockhorn-Treep method?

Guus Razoux Schultz wrote:

Back in 1982 I "teached" Fridrich some F2L tricks of the dutch "Rene Schoof" system. Fridrich's LL method was the same as the dutch system called "Treep-Dockhorn" invented in 1981. [...] Fridrich [...] was the first who put F2L & LL [...] on the internet [...]

Jiří Fridrich and

Guus Razoux Schultz

Did you know that...

... then Jiří Fridrich changed more than his name to Jessica Fridrich?

... he took the American citizenship and started working for the U.S.Army?

... in 1997 the transsexual militarist Fridrich put the old CFOP method on
the internet and called it arrogantly and unjustifiably his "Fridrich" method?

Jiří Fridrich wrote:

I work [...] focusing mostly on military research funded by the Air Force, [...] and
other government agencies. I also occassionally collaborate with private companies, [...]

Who is Schoof?

prof. René Schoof, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italia,
inventor of F2L by corner-edge-pairs

Who is Fridrich?
Jiří Fridrich Hohenlohe (1569–†1645), officer and amateur poet
Dr. Hans Fridrich (1884–†1947), Oberbürgermeister von Breslau
Fridrich Weinwurm (1885–†1942), Slovak modernist architect

 

[StachuK1992]

Who are you?
Were you around back then, or did you find information from various sources?
If the latter, which sources?
-statue

 

[Stefan]

What's up with all these new troll accounts lately?

Fridrich put the old CFOP method on the internet and called it arrogantly and unjustifiably his "Fridrich" method?

Prove it.

 

[CFOPnotFridrich]

Were you around back then, or did you find information from various sources?

Yes and yes.

If the latter, which sources?

For starters click on the links in the original post.

Prove it.

I contacted Guus asking him to post his point of view. Be patient...

 

[Stefan]

To clarify: What I meant was Fridrich calling it the Fridrich method.

 

[BigSams]

There is so much wrong with your post...
For starters, if you're going to start a revolution:
1) Cut the crap and be direct. Why did you post irrelevant trivia and emoticons and images?
2) Don't insult people for their sexuality, political view or occupation.
3) Get all your info right and present it professionally from the beginning. You should have posted after getting Mr. Schultz's reply.
4) Don't get emotional and use overly passionate adjectives/adverbs like 'unjusatifiably' and 'arrogantly'.

Overall, just state and the facts and draw reasonable conclusions. Not impressed... yet.

 

[qqwref]

... in 1997 the (1)transsexual (2)militarist Fridrich (3)put the old CFOP method on
the internet and (4)called it arrogantly and unjustifiably his "Fridrich" method?

(1,2) completely irrelevant, and you seem like a bigot
(3) yes, she did, and not just the method but some decent algorithms, which was VERY useful to cubers in the new wave of cubing in 2003ish
(4) false, it wasn't called "Fridrich method" on the site at all, that's just what the community calls it now as shorthand for "the method which was (possibly?) invented by Dockhorn and Treep and then was popularized by Fridrich"

Who is Fridrich?
Jiří Fridrich Hohenlohe (1569–†1645), officer and amateur poet
Dr. Hans Fridrich (1884–†1947), Oberbürgermeister von Breslau
Fridrich Weinwurm (1885–†1942), Slovak modernist architect

Incredibly irrelevant, why did you post this at all?

 

[Johan444]

There is so much wrong with your post...
For starters, if you're going to start a revolution:
1) Cut the crap and be direct. Why did you post irrelevant trivia and emoticons and images?
2) Don't insult people for their sexuality, political view or occupation.
3) Get all your info right and present it professionally from the beginning. You should have posted after getting Mr. Schultz's reply.
4) Don't get emotional and use overly passionate adjectives/adverbs like 'unjusatifiably' and 'arrogantly'.

Overall, just state and the facts and draw reasonable conclusions. Not impressed... yet.

2) Where did (s)he insult him (Fridrich)?
4) I disagree, please do get emotional. Don't be a stone faced nerd.

I, for one, welcome these threads. Hail TS. o/

 

[Kirjava]

Posting relevant content.

Traps are hot.

 

[BigSams]

2) Where did (s)he insult him (Fridrich)?

... in 1997 the transsexual militarist Fridrich put the old CFOP method on the internet and called it arrogantly and unjustifiably his "Fridrich" method?

The OP is clearly degrading transsexuals and militarists. We all, including myself, have personal opinions about one group of people or another, but these opinions are irrelevant to the topic at hand. And if you're going to go into a speech about the OP not explicitly stating insults, save your breath. Play your petty political games with someone else.

4) I disagree, please do get emotional. Don't be a stone faced nerd.

Emotions are not proof.

I, for one, welcome these threads. Hail TS. o/

-_- stop encouraging trolling for your own entertainment.

 

[CFOPnotFridrich]

The OP is clearly degrading transsexuals and militarists.
[...]

Clearly you are wrong. The statement «in 1997 the transsexual militarist Fridrich put the old CFOP method on the internet» is neither degrading nor glorifying transsexuals and militarists.

 

[BigSams]

Clearly you are wrong. The statement «in 1997 the transsexual militarist Fridrich put the old CFOP method on the internet» is neither degrading nor glorifying transsexuals and militarists.

Then why mention it at all?

 

[CFOPnotFridrich]

^The title of this thread is «Who is Jiří Fridrich?».

I contacted Jiří asking him to post his point of view. Be patient...

 

[guusrs]

Mr. CFOP.

Shame yourself, you shouldn't talk about Jessica like that.
Please be brave and identify yourself!
You forgot the most important source, the original site built in 1997 by Jessica: http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html

See it yourself, she didn't call it the Fridrich method. She only says it's the system she uses and she wanted to teach others to get sub 15. Because of that page everyone (=others) called it the "Fridrich" method. I think she sould get all credits for that. She did the first full publication of an excellent speedcubing method on the internet and we should all thank her for that. So I voted yes for this poll!

BTW: thanx for finding René Schoof, I didn't know him before, I just read about his F2L system in early 1982.

BTW2: Did you know Anneke Treep and Erik Akkersdijk are living only 500 meters from each other (in the same town of course) but they do not know that!

We'd better stop this thread right now.

Gus

 

[Owen]

I could have sworn that someone posted something identical to this a few months ago...

 

[Tortin]

Thanks for acting like a complete bigot and using the wrong name and pronouns when referring to Jessica Fridrich.

 

[masterofthebass]

he was banned for evading a previous ban.

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