A bit of history from the CCC Archives

[IanO]

I was looking through the CCC archives for the first mention of Rybka and found this amusing exchange.


Subject: Re: Rybka on ICC - anybody up for some games?
Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 13:04:32 01/30/04

On January 30, 2004 at 15:24:50, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am logged on to ICC at the moment, looking for games. It's not easy when
>you're not rated! If anybody is interested, match me.
>
>Thanks,
>Vas

When I get home from work (like 5:30-6:00 EST) I'll put Zappa on, if you like.
It may be too weak for you, though.

anthony


Only a year and a half later, Zappa would win the 2005 WCCC, followed soon after by Rybka's domination of the rating lists and victory at the 2007 WCCC.

Ian

[Ovyron]

Yeah, I think they never expected to have the two strongest chess engines in the world and have a match in where Zappa wins $10000.

It's those kinds of surprises that get us hooked to computer chess.