Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 03:03:07 03/11/99
The mini match between number two of Chile, IM Rodrigo Vasquez (FIDE Elo 2433), and a man-machine combination with Fritz )on 200 MHz PC) in k-best mode and me as the boss (who has the final choice among the proposals of Fritz) is finished. As I told already the match did not start too well for my team, and things went on in this spirit. The final result after 4 games (each with 2 hours per player) is IM Rodrigo Vasquez 0.5 1 0.5 0.5 Multi-Fritz & Ingo 0.5 0 0.5 0.5 So Rodrigo won the match by 2.5 : 1.5!!! My congratulations to him! It was not a lucky win; he really deserved it. He is an IM only, but he has GM strength. He played very careful avoiding most of the tactics. (Maybe he would also be an interesting candidate for an exhibition match against Ferret?! Rodrigo is a very nice and open-minded guy. And he likes to laugh a lot, especially about Fernandos jokes.) Only in game two Vasquez started a tremendous and successful attack. After the game he told me the history of this: In Elista Olympiad in 1998 Yusupov had a very nice win over Rozentalis. Two days later Vasquez tried the same variation against Rozentalis and lost: Rozentalis had found a deep defense plan (playing Qb6 and a7-a5) which can not be found by any computer, even not by ZUGZWANG (from Paderborn) or by Deep Blue (from Yorktown Heights). Rodrigo played this variation against Fritz and me, and we didnt find Qb6 and a7-a5. So we lost (in less than 30 moves). In the remaining two games I was not able to break Rodrigo's wall of resistance. He was a tough defender. I paid Rodrigo according to his performance. So the thing became somewhat expensive, but such is life. In the late night after game 4 we all three (referee and host Fernando Villegas, winner Rodrigo Vasquez, looser Ingo Althofer) went to a very nice outdoor restaurant - and Rodrigo paid the bill (probably from the money he won from me...). Only Fritz was excluded from this excursion to Santiago night life (lots of beautiful latin american girls - Fritz would not have understood this). I will write a more detailed report when I am back in Jena (Germany) at the end of March. Ciao, Ingo Althofer.
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