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Subject: Re: Rybka Vs Morovic: Rybka win 1,5 -0,5

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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