Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:06:51 01/23/06
Hi all: Today at noon was celebrated in a beatiful old vineyard place -a relique of older times- in one neighborhood of Santiago -capital of my country, Chile, a big city of around 6 millions inhabitants- the press conference to announce oficially the match GM Morovic Vs Rybka. The press conference was well attended by journalists and I was there in the quality of kind of representative of Rybka, after previous agreement about that with Vas. It is and it was more a protocolar matter to let me be part of the conference and talk about Rybka than anything else. Technically speaking, I will NOT be the guy to decide in cases of draws, resignations et all. I will just ensure only one thing: that the computer to be used will be loaded with the best settings for Rybka. This means I will see Rybka has lot of Ram for Hash tables, be setted in solid and lightly positional settings, etc. The games will be 40 moves in one hour, with 30 seconds increment each move. This ensure long, serious games. I adviced to mount an internet service to at least have a web page with updating of the games each 5 moves. I am not certain, nevertheles, they will be ready in time. The guys in charge are not precisely resplendent genuses and have not even thought on that. As you probably can experience in your own coutries, people in local or national administrations does not know a shit about comps, chess, web , etc. Anyway, if you want to see some photos of the ceremony, you can go to: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/my_photos There, in the album "Villegas", you will find a couple of recent photos of this press conference and the sorting of the side for first game. Next photos of same conference and specially of the game day will be posted there. BTW, Rybka will play first game with whites. Fernando
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