Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:38:56 01/27/06
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On January 26, 2006 at 21:25:58, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >I am just returning from the coctail that was offered after the exciting match >that pitted Rybka against GM Ivan Morovic at two games, each 60 minutes + 30 >second per move. First game was a draw after interesting fireworks with even >theoretical novelties. Second game, Rybka black, was the most interesting game >human Vs machine I have ever seen, with Ivan throwing everything to win, burning >all the bridges and behaving courageously as Lord Raglan and the Light Brigade >in Bataclava did...with the same result. Eaten by lack of time, Morovic simply >was finally crushed by the program, still having near an hour of time as Morovic >had around 30 seconds..... >The match was very well attended, with almost every chess personality of the >country -except dead or sick- attending and commenting the games as they went >along. I met lot of friends of the community, laughed very much, analisedas mad >with almost every master there and had a wonderful evening even with a heat that >was all the time around 34 celsius degrees. >Ivan showed to be not only a great, darng player, but what is most important >-but I already knew that- a great human being, always humorous and disdainning >every advice to play that despicable thing called anti-computer chess. >-I play -he said to me- to entertain the friends that came here today and to get >fun myself, not just to get a miserable half point entrenched behind a line of >pawns.... >In the mean time Rybka became a celebrity in my country and I already received >petitions to let it play in a very important tournament that is performed ted >here all the years by a huge telecomunications company, Entel-Chile. >Now I am tired. Tomorrow I will try to show you the games with comments by >several of the master that attended this wonderful day. >I will try also to upload the photos I got. Hope you get fun. >Seeya later. >Fernando Fernando, excellent, thanks for all of your work on this match. I look forward to seeing the games and photos. It would of course be very nice to also see Rybka in the tournament by Entel-Chile. Vas
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