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Subject: Re: GM Ivan Morovic in a match against Fritz 9 . Atenttion Programmers.

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 11:04:27 12/30/05

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Always a great news to see a GM played against a comp.

I hope Vasik Rajlich will let Rybka play the match !

What's the time control ? 2h/40 moves + 1h/moves ?

Thanks Fernando !


On December 30, 2005 at 12:25:01, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Today I received a telephonic call of my friend, GM Ivan Morovic, a great GM
>that has even be part of the trainning team of Karpov. He told he is going to
>play a computer program in an chess event here in Santiago and, knowing I am "au
>courant", asked me to lend him the last version of F9 to play. He has only  F8.
>I told him "no problem", but at once, also, I adviced him to play -instead of
>Fritz OR in adition to it- one of the new stars. He did not know  a word about
>monster like Fruit, Zappa or Rybka.
>I warned him those entities can beat players even so good as me...
>After he almost broke the phone with hysteric laughing, he said it could be so.
>As much I do not have commerial versions of Fruits, neither of Rybka, if any of
>the programmers of those engines is interested in playing Morovic, let me know
>and I will try to get for them the email address of Ivan in order they can send
>him the commrcial, last version engine.
>This will happens next week.
>If some agreement must be reached about "What happens with the program next", I
>offer myself as a "de fide" representant of the programmer to erase the engine
>files from Ivan's computer once the game is over.
>I just want to be part of this and see how Ivan, a marvelous tactician, handle
>these awesome monsters.
>
>My best
>fernando



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