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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