Author: Chris Carson
Date: 09:26:10 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 12:11:31, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>It was a night of great fun. Rodrigo came to my home even earlier than planned,
>when I was driving my wife to the airport for her trip to Paris, Venice and
>Florence. So imagine: alone in home with nobody there sniffing at the sight of
>the board and the computer. Just my daughters and Rodrigo.
>
>Rodrigo is a lovely young man, my kind of people to be with: cheerful, full time
>jester, carefree and inmensely talented. He is a very good chess player but
>knows very well there is no future there, so is trying to finish his career as a
>lawyer. That he is doing since God said "Fiat Lux". Anyway, he does not take
>chess as a matter of death or life. He look at it with detachment and because of
>this sane, warm, smart attitude, he played Gambit with a light, humoured mood.
>He does not care a shit to lose or to win, just to get some fun with an
>interesting game. If all the players were like him.... So do not expect in
>Rodrigo the kind of pain-in-the-ass behaviour typical of so many chess players
>facing computers. For Rodrigo the key word in life and chess is "fun". Isn't he
>a sage guy?
>
>So Rodrigo sitted at my side in my great desk almost the size of a tennis field
>and played with my pretty french wooden board. I manipulated Tiger and annotated
>his comments from time to time. Rodrigo did not stop to talk and joke and used
>all the time a language that I cannot reproduce here in order to avoid a ban or
>deletion. There are here, I am afraid, too many delicate ears that jump to the
>sky with the so called "profanities". I will just reproduce some of them in the
>original spanish not to hurt those minds. If they make the effort to translate,
>then it is his fault, not mine.....
>
>
>And now to the game. Rodrigo asked me to sett the game in the very first moves
>of the sicilian to test his line, in fact a Pogulayesky one he knows well, but
>it seems Tiger knew it too well.....
>
>
>
>[Event Friendly Tournament
>[Date "29/4/2001"]
>[Round 1
>[White "R.Vásquez"]
>[Black "Gambit Tiger 2.0"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[WhiteElo "2468"]
>[BlackElo "0"]
>[Opening "B96 Sicilian: Najdorf, Polugayevsky Variation"]
>[Setup "1"]
>[FEN "rnbqkb1r/1p2pppp/p2p1n2/8/3NP3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R1BQKB1R w KQkq - 0 1"]
>The game begun after: e4, c5...Nf3, d6...d4,cxd...Nxd, Nf6...Nc3, h7
>
>1.Bg5 e6 2.f4 b5 3.e5 dxe5 4.fxe5 Qc7 5.exf6 Qe5+ 6.Be2 Qxg5 7.O-O Qe5 8.Nf3
>Bc5+ 9.Kh1 Qxf6
>10.Ne4 Qe7
>{Vasquez say: I have two chances: Ne5 or Nfg5. My idea follow this line: if Ne5
>and then black castle, then I play Nxf7, he does Rxf7, I do rRxf7, follows Kxf7
>and then I go Bh5. But if g6, then I play Qf3+, he play Kg8 and then maybe I go
>nf6+ and the rook fall..... After bh5, Kg8, Nxc5, Qxc5,
>Qd8+, Qf8 and the blow Bf7+... "Voy a dársela por el culo a esta putita"}
>
> 11.Ne5 f5 12.Bh5+ g6 13.Nxg6 hxg6 14.Bxg6+ Kf8 15.Nxc5
>Rh6 16.Nxe6+ Bxe6 17.Bxf5 Bf7 18.Qf3 Ra7 19.Rae1 Qd6 20.h3 Rf6 21.Rd1
>
>{ FV: How do you feel right now? V: With this excellent wine, very good....}
>
>21...Qe5 22.Qg4
>Re7 23.Qh4 Rxf5 24.Rxf5 Qxf5 25.Qh8+ Bg8 26.Rd8+ Re8 27.Rxe8+ Kxe8 28.Qxg8+
>
>(FV: And now, what do you expect? V: Objetively I see a draw, but if he takes
>risks, I can win... "Esta vieja cabrona sabe jugar"}
>
>
>28...Qf8 29.Qe6+ Kd8 30.h4 Qh8 31.Qd5+
>
>
>{V :Well, maybe this lady is going to win after all, but you cannot say I did
>not play an entertainning kind of game, isn't Fernando?.....}
>
>
>31...Kc7 32.h5 Qxb2 33.Kh2 Qf6 34.Kh3
>Nc6 35.g4 Nd4
>
>( FV: Are you fool, Rodrigo? You are going to fall in a mate net.. V: So what? I
>prefer a fast death...)
>
>36.g5 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Nf3+ 38.Kg3 Qe1+
>
>{ V: The same history: calculation power against human impulse and red wine....}
>)
>
>34...Qh4+ 0-1
>
>After the game Rodrigo agreed to play next week two more games at a my favourite
>rythm, 40 in 90 minutes. This time he will not talk nor sip red wine. There will
>be also, to spur his brain, a modest but acceptable money price. Stay tunner and
>do not go away.
>
>Fernando Happy Productions
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