Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:01:35 04/29/01
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On April 29, 2001 at 17:20:00, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>To night, at 9:30 PM, Rodrigo Vásquez, a GM, the second -or even the best by
>now- chilean chess player will engage Gambit Tiger II in a 40 moves-one hour
>game to be celebrated in my home. Vásquez -as Christophe Theron will remember-
>played an old experimental Tiger version that Christophe was nice to send me in
>those times and although Rodrigo got the point, it was a difficult task for him.
>
>Gambit Tiger will be operated by me and will play in my fastest computer, with a
>an AMD-K-2 motherboard running at 480 Mhz, with 128 Mg Ram. I will set it to
>play antihuman in his most agressive mood. If Christophe wan to change something
>of all that, he can post here at once or email me for the same.
>
>Rodrigo es a tactical, resourceful player with a lot of wit and what's more, a
>nice guy with a laugh in his face almost all the time. To encourage his
>perfomance I promised him, in case he get the full point, a tasteful meal with
>one of my most expensive red wine bottles, one that I have in reserve in my
>"cave" as a valued treasure. With such a price a man like him, cheerful and
>loving of good stuff in the table as he is, surely will do his best. If he
>looses, he will get a hot-dog and a coke. Maybe also a kick in the ass.
>
>One aditional interesting feature of this game between Rodrigo and this
>absolutely superior version of Tiger compared to that he knew is the fact that,
>as Rodrigo told me, he is going to use a theoretical openning line he has been
>preparing since long ago. He is willing to see if Gambit can discover some holes
>in his preparations.
>
>As the games proceeds, I will annotate his comments. Probably also we'll do a
>post mostem exercize that will be duly annotated. All this will happens IF
>Rodrigo does not get cold feet, if a meteor does not land in his head or any
>other thing of the sort does not happens to impede him coming to my home. So
>stay tunned. I will post everything tomorrow morning. If the game is not played,
>I will keep a discrete silence. You never know with a chess player....
>
>Fernando, the producer.
That's very interesting, Fernando.
I advice you to set GT2 to "antihuman=on" and "style=agressive".
I have not enough experience against human players to say that these settings
are optimal, but at least I hope the game will be entertaining.
Do you know Rodrigo's ELO ?
Thank you for organizing this.
Christophe
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