Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 14:18:48 02/01/06
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On January 31, 2006 at 20:38:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Now I can tell you this. >Minutes before the second game, as Morovic and his friends arranged over the >board the by then still inert chessmen in the initial positions, I dared to give >a piece of advice. >I told Ivan this: >- Ivan, behave in this second game as old chess fans used to do when facing 80's >vintange computers.. >-What they did? -he asked. >-They just tried to keep themselves alive along the middle game and waited until >ending came, and then and only then they went for the killing... >Ivan glanced at me with a smile and nodding his head, but the smile and the >bouncing of the head was the only positive receptions my advice had. >We already know the history: he went for the killing in the middle game and, as >I myself putted some posts ago, it was like a revamped light brigade charge in >balaclava. Ivan handled his troops lot better and brighter than Lord Raglan his, >but the output was the same. >Only after the bitter end I told Ivan that the beta 7 he used was enterily -or >almost- lacking in ending routines. Had he..... >He interrupted me: >-No matter what, I would do always the same. I play chess to get fun for me and >for the chess lovers, not to get a miserable point entrenched behind a mine >field... >So is Ivan, this wonderful chap and friend of mine... > >fernando I really liked that second game. It looked to me that black would finish consolidating any minute, but white just kept finding ideas and pressing on. It's also not so easy for a strong player to start playing "anti-computer". The last time a top GM tried it was in 1997 - Deep Blue-Kasparov, match II, game 6. Vas
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