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Subject: Re: The advice Morovic ignored....

Author: Pablo Ignacio Restrepo

Date: 19:18:55 02/01/06

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Vasik.

I am agreeing with you.
 It is not so easy to play anti-computer chess.
I have been studying Rybka for two Months, and is far away "more what I must to
learn from Rybka," that all what I have learned from Ribka.
To play anticomputer chess is a risk by itself.
Regards,
Pablo


On February 01, 2006 at 17:18:48, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>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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