Tune-in for Chess Talk with IM John Watson on ICC Chess.FM. John’s weekly 60+ minute show will feature an interview with leading chess personalities. All shows run on demand for members after airing.
This week (Tue., Oct 7), joining John on Chess Talk is the Czech-American IM, Vasik Rajlich, the brainchild behind the award-winning Rybka software program.
In 1999, the MIT-trained computer scientist opted to take a six-month time-out from his work in military research in pursuit of the grandmaster title. Three years later(!), he realized this was an unobtainable goal – but did have his ‘Eureka moment’ in using his expertise in computing science and chess to create the top grandmaster-playing software, Rybka, which last weekend won the 16th World Computer Chess Championship in Beijing, China.
JOHN B. HENDERSON
Was he born in America?