Fernando Villegas

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Fernando Villegas, a Chilean writer, journalist, sociologist affiliated with the University of Chile, chess player and computer chess promoter and tester, and frequent poster and moderator in Computer Chess Forums.

=Books=

1990 ...

 * Fernando Villegas (1990). Fiesta para corazones rotos.
 * Fernando Villegas (1994). Teología para incrédulos.
 * Fernando Villegas (1996). Los siete pescados capitales. Editorial Qué Pasa
 * Fernando Villegas (1997). Diccionario histérico de Chile. Editorial Qué Pasa

2000 ...

 * Fernando Villegas (2003). Memorias dispersas, juicios erráticos (ensayo). Grijalbo y Cia. Ltda.
 * Fernando Villegas (2005). El Chile que no queremos. Sudamericana Chilena S.A.
 * Fernando Villegas (2005). Discursos de la carne (novela). Alfaguara
 * Fernando Villegas (2007). Muerte a los latinos (novela). Plaza & Janés
 * Fernando Villegas (2008). Breve cartografía y bitácora del beber (ensayo). Aguilar Chilena de Ediciones Ltda.
 * Fernando Villegas (2009). Ruego a Ud. tenga la bondad de irse a la cresta. Grijalbo y Cia. Ltda.. 978-956-258-305-3.

2010 ...

 * Fernando Villegas (2010). De la felicidad y todo eso. Sudamericana Chilena S.A.
 * Fernando Villegas (2011). Julio César. Para jóvenes y no tanto…]. Sudamericana Chilena S.A.
 * Fernando Villegas (2012). El banquete... o lecturas de supervivencia]. Sudamericana Chilena S.A.
 * Fernando Villegas (2013). Villegas Presidente. Sudamericana Chilena S.A
 * Fernando Villegas (2014). Una novela Rosa. Sudamericana Chilena S.A
 * Fernando Villegas (2014). Matinée, vermouth y noche.... Sudamericana Chilena S.A
 * Fernando Villegas (2015). Del amor y todo eso. Sudamericana Chilena S.A
 * Fernando Villegas (2016). Tsunami. Grupo Planeta
 * Fernando Villegas (2017). Gran diccionario del discurso políticamente correcto. Grupo Planeta
 * Fernando Villegas (2018). Chile, una historia casi secreta. Grupo Planeta
 * Fernando Villegas (2019). Grandes Invitados.

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * Chris resignation by Fernando Villegas Darroui, rgcc, January 5, 1997
 * Proposal for a New rating list based in human Vs machines by Fernando Villegas Darroui, rgcc, February 28, 1997
 * Artificial Intelligence by Fernando Villegas Darroui, rgcc, May 13, 1997 » Artificial Intelligence
 * USCF Chess under NT v4.0 by Fernando Villegas, rgcc, December 25 1997 » USCF Chess
 * Power Chess 98 by Fernando Villegas, CCC, March 18, 1998 » Power Chess
 * Something More About Chess Challenger 7 by Fernando Villegas, CCC, April 06, 1998 » Chess Challenger
 * Junior: "Fast" Searcher or "Deep" Searcher? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, April 19, 1998 » Junior
 * Power Chess 98 Stuff by Fernando Villegas, CCC, April 22, 1998 » Power Chess
 * Eugene Nalimov is Here by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 12, 1998 » Eugene Nalimov, Siberian Chess
 * Mirage is worth a game or two...or more by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 14, 1998 » Mirage
 * Rookie program deserves a look by Fernando Villegas, CCC, October 19, 1998 » Rookie
 * Bionic Vs Crafty Debate: some data required by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 25, 1999 » Bionic Impakt, Crafty
 * Anmon is Really Very Strong by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 22, 1999 » AnMon
 * USCF Chess Program. Information? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 13, 1999 » USCF Chess
 * Sargon V: from 486-33Mhz to Pentium 266 Mhz by Fernando Villegas, CCC, December 26, 1999 » Sargon
 * Sargon Coming down in Flames... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, December 27, 1999

2000 ...

 * Zarkov news? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 18, 2000 » Zarkov
 * What do you know about Academy 6.0 Office? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 23, 2001 » Chess Academy
 * Fernando in some trouble... by Steven Schwartz, December 20, 2001
 * Nejmet by Fernando Villegas, CCC, April 07, 2002 » Nejmet
 * Interview with Martin Bryant, the Man behind Colossus by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 18, 2002 » Martin Bryant, Colossus Chess
 * Chessica Mistery by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 04, 2002 » Chessica
 * What do you really know about Kasparov ChessMate? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 12, 2003 » Kasparov Chessmate

2005 ...

 * New wooden chess computer by me by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 28, 2005
 * Ktulu mirage vanishing and precociously marketed shams always coming... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, April 18, 2005 » Ktulu
 * Playing Little Goliath Evolution by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 14, 2005 » Goliath
 * For those interested in: A) Chess Tal B) New engines by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 30, 2005 » Chess System Tal
 * Farewell of chess programmers by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 14, 2005
 * Do you Remember "Chessica"? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, October 14, 2005 » Chessica
 * "SMIRF".......Snifff.......Coff coff by fernando, CCC, April 29, 2007 » SMIRF
 * The Strelka affair to date by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 12, 2007 » Strelka
 * Achilles 3.5, GM 0.5 by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 06, 2007 » Achilles
 * GNU 5.07 by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 17, 2007 » GNU Chess
 * Spark full width approach and why... by Fernando Villegas, Hiarcs Forum, May 25, 2008 » Kasparov Sparc
 * Bright 0.4 A Fantastic, Agressive Games by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 27, 2009 » Bright

2010 ...

 * A New Name for Doch.... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 07, 2010 » Doch
 * Don: what a devilish thing you did!!!! by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 24, 2010 » Komodo
 * Chess Partner GUI by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 05, 2011 » ChessPartner
 * A Simple Proposal.... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, February 08, 2011
 * Dorky is lot better than I thought by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 08, 2011 » Dorky
 * MORE about Arasan 13.1 by Fernando Villegas, CCC, August 26, 2011 » Arasan
 * From 5 ply to 6.... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 06, 2012 » Depth
 * Any of You Know This Program? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, April 26, 2013 » Jaque Al Perro Guasón
 * 34 years of chess computers and human race by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 07, 2013
 * "El Perro Guasón" or The Bothering, sarcastic Dog by Fernando Villegas, Hiarcs Forum, May 05, 2014 » Jaque Al Perro Guasón
 * Not very Known and Yet Very Good engine: Queen Chess by Fernando Villegas, CCC, October 31, 2014 » Queen

2015 ...

 * Slow Chess by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 05, 2015 » Slow Chess
 * Hermann and Arminus by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 26, 2016 » Hermann, Arminius
 * Who this Guy Heis is? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 20, 2016
 * Anybody has an opinion about Fritz 16? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 15, 2017 » Fritz
 * Wasp and a question by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 23, 2017 » Wasp
 * Finally I beat OpenTal, BUT... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 18, 2018
 * Furure of chess engine programmers by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 03, 2018

=External Links=
 * Fernando Villegas from Wikipedia.es (Spanish)
 * Blog | El Villegas
 * KChess review by Fernando Villegas » Interview with Rob McDonell
 * Chess System Tal - A Promise Finally Accomplished? by Fernando Villegas, hosted by Thorsten Czub
 * Fernando Villegas - Máquinas que juegan ajedrez, 2017, YouTube Video

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