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Nelson Hernandez, alias Cato the Younger an American correspondence chess and freestyle chess player, computer chess aficionado, and opening book author, member of the Thinker team at the WCCC 2010. He produced and published a video interview with Vasik Rajlich in 2009, A Conversation with Vasik Rajlich, and in July 2011, after the Rybka disqualification by the ICGA in June 2011, Another Conversation with Vasik Rajlich. At recent TCEC, in conjunction with Jeroen Noomen, Nelson Hernandez is responsible of choosing the opening positions.

=Publications=

2018

 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2018). TCEC10: The 10th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 » TCEC Season 10
 * Nelson Hernandez (2018). Choosing chess openings for TCEC10. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2018). TCEC11: the 11th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3 » TCEC Season 11
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2018). TCEC12: the 12th Top Chess Engine Championship. pdf » TCEC Season 12
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2018). TCEC13: the 13th Top Chess EngineChampionship. pdf » TCEC Season 13

2019

 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC12: The 12th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC Cup 1. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC13: The 13th top chess engine championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC Cup 2. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC14: the 14th Top Chess Engine Championship. pdf » TCEC Season 14
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC14: The 14th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC15: the 15th Top Chess Engine Championship. pdf » TCEC Season 15
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC15: The 15th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3 » TCEC Season 15
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC Cup 3. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). The 16th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC16. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4 » TCEC Season 16
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2019). TCEC Cup 4. ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4

2020

 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). The 17th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC17. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3 » TCEC Season 17
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). TCEC Cup 5. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). The 18th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC18. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3 » TCEC Season 18
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). TCEC Cup 6. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). The 19th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC19. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4 » TCEC Season 19
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). TCEC Cup 7. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4

=Forum Posts=
 * 7th Freestyle trash-talking thread by Nelson Hernandez, Rybka Forum, September 01, 2007
 * Who's Who in Freestyle by Nelson Hernandez, Rybka Forum, April 27, 2008
 * Anyone skilled at writing PGN scripts? by Nelson Hernandez, Rybka Forum, May 26, 2008
 * Najdorf madness by Nelson Hernandez, Rybka Forum, October 22, 2009
 * A Conversation With Vasik Rajlich - 5 Dec 2009 by Nelson Hernandez, Rybka Forum, December 29, 2009
 * Vasik Rajlich responds to his accusers by Nelson Hernandez, Rybka Forum, July 12, 2011

=See also=
 * A Conversation with Vasik Rajlich - Videos
 * Deus X, Interview with Albert Silver, Video

=External Links=
 * Nelson Hernandez (Cato the Younger in... - TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition | Facebook, November 19, 2013

Interviews

 * Interviews with Freestylers by Vasik Rajlich, Spring 2007
 * Interview with Robert Houdart, Mark Lefler and GM Larry Kaufman by Nelson Hernandez, Chessdom, November 23, 2017 » TCEC Season 10

Misc

 * Cato the Younger from Wikipedia

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