Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 21:30:37 01/25/06
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On January 25, 2006 at 15:37:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: >An hour ago Ivan phoned me to ask some questions about the match, wich will >begin and end tomorrow thursday, from 14:30, chilean hour. Or perhaps at 15:00. >And one of the questions he did to me, after reading in a newspaper that I have >gotten one draw in a game with Rybka, was the following: >-How a heck you got it...? >He was, of course, mainly joking, but the joke reflects something that other >comments made to me clear: he respect very much the program and he is not sure >at all of the outcome. >In his preparation -and all this, talk included, is NOT a secret I am divulging >at his back- he has played more than 40 games at around one hour each and the >results, he told me, are even. >He has clear just one esential thing, though: >-I will not do what I said to the press I was going to do, say, play an >anticomputer kind of chess with my pieces entrenched behind a wall of pawns. I >will not dig-in. That only ensure dead by suffocation... >As far, TV of at least one network has promised assistance. >I will be there in any case and I will take photos for you to enjoy. > >Fernando which version of rybka will be playing? hopefully beta 12
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