TransWarp Chess

Bobby Fischer's live-in Partner claims rights for daughter Jinky

2009-11-12T08:58:00.001-06:00

Wow, just when I thought I knew all the gossip about Bobby Fischer, I guess I don't! According to published articles, Marilyn Young, Bobby Fischer's live-in Partner in the Philippines had a daughter with the deceased legend. While paternity hasn't been proven, according to post cards, it seems GM Fischer did acknowledge Jinky Young as his daughter. There is even an affidavit from Philippine's legendary GM Eugenio Torre, who was Fischer's second at the famous match vs then World Champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, where Fischer was residing at the time of his death.

Even after his death, Bobby Fischer still claims headlines in the chess world, that's for sure! Ms Young has said that she would even allow submission of DNA, who is a minor, born in Baguio City, Philippines in May, 2001. Whether or not this would require the exhumation of GM Bobby Fischer is unknown to me, or if DNA from him would be available without disturbing his grave. It seems that Ms Young has some pretty compelling evidence as can be seen on Chessbase.Com at the following url http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5905 I'm sure there are other sites with other info as well, but this page has pictures of postcards sent to Jinky and Ms Young and I imagine his handwriting is pretty well able to be tested with comparison to the handwriting on the postcards. But with his Japanese wife, Miyoko Watai, also claiming his estate, we may get to the DNA testing to finalize this case. I will have to try to keep an eye on this.

It looks like it takes some good gossip to get me to blog since TransWarp has been offline, I will be able to put her back online in December for sure, I've paid my bills for this month and saving grocery money for the end of the month and sundry items, but December should be fine for at least another 6 month membership for TW. I doubt it's missed...don't really see any comments on here missing TW, even if I do get TW back online to play and no one really does play it, TransWarp will always be known as the first to break the 4000 blitz rating barrier on ICC. If and when it's time for TransWarp to retire, I hope that will at least be remembered by ICC and the fun it brought with it's pseudo-feud with Smallville and the entertaining games they played as well as great wins by Smallville and other GM's like GM Bassem Amin and GM Shahkriyar Mamedyarov and games with GM Rauf Mamedov as well as many other noteworthy GM's too numerous to name, but a small list is in the archives, but some recent players haven't been added to that list, I'm not sure, but just in case he's not named, the 2009 World Junior Champion, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, has played TransWarp as well, ICC handle "Mateus", those who are ICC members can always do "search Transwarp mateus" without the quotes in the main command line to see those games.

GM Magnus Carlsen on a roll!

2009-10-11T10:06:00.000-05:00

GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway, a fan favorite of chess players around the world has become the latest to break the elo rating of 2800! He joins an elite group such as Fischer, Kasparov, Anand, Topalov and a few more I believe. Just can't think off the top of my head this morning.

GM Carlsen won the Nanjing Pearl Springs 2009 tournament playing a double round robin vs GMs Veselin Topalov, Peter Leko (who replaced Viswanathan Anand), Dmitry Jakovenko, Teimour Radjabov and Wang Yue. As you can see below in the crosstable, GM Carlsen was superb with 8/10 pts and a 3002 Performance Rating! Not to mention it was a category XXI tournament. It looks like to me, that we have seen the next World Champion in action, but of course he has to wait for the Topalov-Anand World Championship Match, he can only get
better in time.                                                                                             photo courtesy of chessdom.com

2nd Pearl Spring Nanjing (CHN), 2009 cat. XXI (2764)

1. Carlsen, Magnus    g NOR 2772 * * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8 3002

2. Topalov, Veselin    g BUL 2813 0 ½ * * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 5½ 2789

3. Wang Yue             g CHN 2736 ½ 0 ½ ½ * * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½ 2733

4. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2757 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * * ½ ½ ½ 0 4 2693

5. Leko, Peter            g HUN 2762 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * * ½ ½ 4 2692

6. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2742 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * * 4 2696

Bummer

2009-10-11T09:32:00.000-05:00

Well, the bummer is, I guess I will have to wait til November to renew poor TransWarp... I guess the price of fuel has affected everything, from Electrical Bills, Natural Gas bills, especially food bills, as trucks haul the produce and merchandise from supermarket from the warehouses.

I was almost going to say "the neighborhood store", but those have seen to have gone by the wayside. I remember a little Mom and Pop store we would go to on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, SD. Now that little store houses the chamber of commerce for Mission...seems kind of weird. It was called "The Mission Meat Market", we would get our bacon, fresh sliced, to steak to burger there. It was run by a nice couple in town..but sadly, the way of the tiny store has gone, it was about the size of one of these convenience stores/gas stations you see now. Without the gas of course, some canned goods, sundry items...oh I can smell the place still. The very old style fridge that held the soda right by the cash register, yep, one of those ones that looked like an old typewriter...no sweep and beep there! I really miss those days, as well as going out to a farm and getting fresh eggs, the lady would always save pullet eggs for me, eggs laid by year old hens..and smaller, so I had like a kid-sized egg ready to be cooked. They were good people, my Grandparents used to visit with them while I explored the farm. Of course sitting on the small tractor pretending to drive it, exploring the barn.... Time passes so quickly the older you get, doesn't it? I almost wish I could time travel back to those days, go in and get a cold soda and have them slice up some fresh bacon...no MSG or Nitrates...I just feel nostalgic today I guess, missing the old days of not having to worry about money (being a kid) buying a soda for a nickel..collecting pop bottles to cash in for money for a new baseball or something dearly wanted by a kid. Ah well, we can't.

But anyway, off that topic, I was rambling anyway....hopefully, I will be able to get TW back online about Nov. 3.. Keep your fingers crossed, that is if you are one of the TW fans on ICC, I'm sure there are a lot who could care less.

Fav College team

2009-09-27T21:55:00.001-05:00

following KU as long as in polls in Football and of course Basketball!!

Still waiting for October

2009-09-19T12:41:00.002-05:00

I'm still waiting for October, when hopefully, TransWarp's account will be back up and running. It's a long wait, would probably happen on Oct. 2, 2009, I know I am having withdrawl...but what can you do, life revolves around money, just as Pink Floyd's famous song points out. I just know it cannot come soon enough. Hope to see you soon!
To timhortonsknight, I'm hanging in there bro, I hope you can do the same! I'm surprised you just found the Finnish page on highest ICC ratings, been in my links for quite some time :P

Sadly, a wait til October and other ramblings

2009-09-14T09:19:00.003-05:00

Sadly, I will have to wait until October to renew TransWarp's Account. I am having major Warp Drive withdrawl ;) Sometimes bills just catch up with you and it happened to me. Chess is a very expensive hobby from playing OTB to playing online now. With ICC raising prices (although it is worth it for the coverage of major tournaments and such and online video articles), for a computer account which does none of that really, in addition to your regular account (Which you do access these perks) can be very tough on the fixed income types.
As with playing OTB, you have to have local membership, USCF membership to play in sanctioned tournaments. The average player pays for the prizes of the GM's who get to play for free, they get to play free on ICC too, but this is to help bring members to the site. This is the problem of not having major company sponsorship of Chess Tournaments in the United States. If we could get them to do so, like some of the software companies (not necessarily chess software) or other high visibility companies, it would really be nice to see major tournaments here in the US. Can you imagine if Coke-Cola sponsored a tournament? Or the Pepsi Pawn Push, wow that would be nice. But it won't happen, as chess players are still regarded as nerds here. It's almost bad for a teen's social life to be in a chess club! Schools really need to press the fact that chess helps people learn other things! USCF had a slogan for this at one time, I guess it didn't catch on.
Msybe it will happen someday. But dang do I wish TransWarp was online! I guess it shows I'm not an effective blogger who can bring in additional income with my sad little blog. TransWarp's website even got too expensive...I don't see Obama turning things around yet. He may have a Presidency like Jimmy Carter, many promises, a good man, but didn't achieve much. Later he did though, with effective peace journies around the world. He may be more famous for that than his Presidency. Nothing to be ashamed of though! A lot done by a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia! He also had the Iranian Hostage Crisis to deal with as well and the failed rescue attempt didn't help matters. But can't say he didn't try. Wow, I really got off subject! :D That's what TransWarp withdrawl does!!

Have a good one peeps!

Hopefully TW back soon

2009-09-02T10:02:00.002-05:00

Hopefully, TransWarp will be back online soon. I am short of funds, I may not be able to get it back online in September, it depends of course on bills. Real bills come first of course, not hobby bills. At least in our household it does! My Dad has helped on the last 6 months, I cannot ask him again, after all, it's not his hobby. The price of cable tv, especially now with HD is so expensive, I would almost go back to the days of when we had to get up to change channels, now one of the first words kids learn is "remote" or "mote"! At first it was easy, we only had two channels to pick from in South Dakota, then it got to three! The horror!! I never saw ABC until I moved to a different town, (or visiting relatives in other towns). So with cable and internet combined, it gets quite expensive, luckily, my Dad covers the internet part, but with all the commercials still on tv, you would think it wouldn't be so expensive...but all this technology .

When TW wasn't online a lot recently, I had been fighting pneumonia and now after an mri found out why my shoulder hurts so much, some sort of problem between where the bicep connects to the shoulder, not sure if a tear or what, "flap" something was mentioned, going to look that up next. Great thing about internet, helps me keep up with what my meds do as well as my disability and it's problems. Just go to WebMD or something, don't have to call your doc to explain every little thing.

But back to the subject, if I can pull off paying my bills, I will try to get TW back on the first week of Sept, after I figure out my budget, it's not like it's been getting much play lately anyway, I would like to thank ARMCOMPOSER for agreeing to playing some unrated games, personally, I think anyone rated over 3000 should be able to put up 1 rating point. It's not that TW is a point seeker, but it has worked hard to get where it is, plus I have as well ;) Working on books, settings, etc. And after all this work, risking 15 points for a draw and 31 points for a loss, while gaining only 1 point for a win, there's just no incentive. Getting to 4000 1 or 2 points at a time, while going 15 points backwards for a draw, then having to wait for 16 games to get those points back plus 1, while waiting days for games, you have to set some rules. At least TransWarp has ALWAYS accepted any time control! Despite seeking popular time controls like 1 1, 3 1 and 15 0, it's variables just say bullet, blitz or standard, not restricting players to 0 or 1 second increments. This is popular by some machines that are human only, and I think a bit of a cop out. The machine has the advantage, let the humans try to get any advantage they think they need, whether to out blitz the machine with 0 increment, or outthink the machine with 5 seconds increment is the way to go, in my opinion. Then there's sinferno, claiming that every game it played was watched by ICC in setting it's record, there is no way that ICC could watch every game and confirm it followed the rules set forth by the "official" record rating. It has no more proof that it has achieved it's official record over TW's unofficial record other than that it's a Official Developer Account. Sure, I didn't make Rybka, but I never used another engine, always accepted any time control, so other than that I didn't make and develop Rybka, I feel that it's record is just as official. But that's just me.

Anyway, I will get off my soapbox and hopefully save enough money to renew TW's account (Oh yeah, the developer's also get free accounts, so they don't have to renew just to keep their record alive for as long as it stands, but if I want TW's unofficial record to stay up there until it's broken, I have to keep renewing my account ). If it's unofficial, why make me keep paying to keep it up there? To keep ICC in the money of course. It's always something.

TransWarp Reaches 4009 again, then drawn by GM Varuzhan Akobian

2009-08-19T05:57:00.002-05:00

After a long absence due to many doctor's appts and tests, I finally have a little time to post on my blog. Sadly, as I posted before, www.transwarpchess.com had to bite the dust due to costs. There hasn't been much action with TransWarp, as several times it logged off and I didn't notice, sometimes for several days, again, due to hectic schedule.

GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had played several games, putting TransWarp back over 4000, to 4001, (Mateus), then Yaacov Norowitz played one game, a strong national master here in the US, but yet untitled, putting TW to 4002.

It was idle again for a six days until GM Rauf Mamedov played some games, he hadn't played TW in a while and it was nice to see him back, however he didn't have any luck and quit when TransWarp got to it's old high of 4009, then I think a contract was put out on poor TW ;) j/k of course, and GM Varuzhan Akobian (SCORPION83) struck back with a winning game, but gave up the draw after time trouble, I will post this game below. He spanked TW back to 3995 with that draw and played several more games, but not having any luck and quitting when TW sat at 3999.

I suspect it will sit there for quite some time, as it seems to do when approaching 4000, also TW may be offline for several days (Aug 31-Sept 03) again, due to lack of funds, hopefully, I will have enough spare cash to renew her for another 6 months. It really sucks with the prices at ICC going up for people like me, on fixed incomes, but what can I do? I do believe it's worth the price and prices are going up on everything, including internet service. But at a certain point, I have to choose between bologna or a chess account.

But to get off the gloominess, here's GM Varuzhan Akobian's draw with TransWarp, remember, it was a won game for him until time became a factor! I heard the computer fan start going after I turned the tv down for something and got to see only the rook and knight endgame, I could only hope GM Akobian would make an error to see 4010, but no such luck, TW was lucky enough to get out with a draw!

Nakamura vs Ponomariov in Blitz Tiebreak at Donostia Chess Festival

2009-07-20T13:04:00.002-05:00

www.transwarpchess.com to close

2009-07-20T12:37:00.002-05:00

I will be closing www.transwarpchess.com, I just can't afford the payments anymore. I had hoped the banner ads here and on the website would help pay for the site, but not even close. It was a nice try, I had fun doing it and will try to keep more up to date here, but health issues have been my main thing with both pneumonia getting me (recovering well) and heart test coming up, I hate the drug they use to simulate stress on the heart, will be the 3rd stress test, but this time a PET scan, with a better picture of the heart. But still the drug to simulate stress on the heart. It sure makes your diaphram hurt and feels like an elephant standing on your chest, no matter how the techs tell you your bp and pulse as well as o2 sat is okay, it's 5 minutes of heck. Not sure when they will close the site, so if you want TW downloads, better grab them quickly!

Sorry Again

2009-06-28T11:58:00.002-05:00

I'm sorry I haven't kept up to date on games played by TW, I would like to thank GM Tigran L. Petrosian and GM Bassem Amin for keeping TransWarp active. I have been having a lot of doctor's appts and such to check out my heart. So far, I think things are okay, but the cardiologist still wants me to get a PET scan, which of course I am NOT looking forward to getting. I guess it's like a chemical stress test, of which I have already had two in the past years, and the drug they use, adenasine(sp) is a monster to me. I can't breath and feels like an elephant on my chest. No matter that the techs are telling you your stats are okay, your body is telling you different, and your brain tends to believe your body over the techs!

TransWarp has been honored with the listing of one of it's games on chessgames.com, a loss of course, I submitted some other games to give more of a feel for TransWarp's ability, but I guess they like only the human wins. After all the hubbub is over about my heart, I will try to keep more up to date like before with more tournament results and such. But now, I'm just too worried and tend to forget that I need to do some updating. The latest database isn't full of enough games to post it to transwarpchess.com yet. Oh yes, and I forgot to also give my thanks to GM Hikaru Nakamura for playing some games as well and congratulate him on his invitation to Corus GM-A! About time for him, he will have to miss his Gibraltar tournament if it's the same time though, but I'm sure Corus "A" is a much greater opportunity.

So again, thanks to those who follow this blog, sorry it's been slow, it doesn't do me any good to have it if it's slow, but health comes first. After 20 years of dealing with health problems, you learn that the hard way. And again, Thanks to those GM's who play TransWarp (IM's Too!) it's much appreciated, and hopefully, I won't let TW log off and forget it's logged off.

Take care and Good Chess!

GM Bassem Amin wins at 2 1 Bullet!

2009-06-10T06:59:00.003-05:00

GM Bassem Amin pulled off his best bullet showing, winning his first bullet game in well over 200 tries, Great Job!! I guess seeing this win earlier this morning, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave decided to give blitz 3 1 a go, but not having the same success. But it is good to see him play again after quite some time, I don't believe he ever tried Deep Rybka 3, only Rybka 2.3.2 mp x64 and earlier. GM Vachier-Lagrave is "Mateus" on The Internet Chess Club, (ICC).

First is GM Amin's great win over TransWarp in bullet, TW is about the only Human only Computer account to offer all versions of bullet, while others will stick only to 1 0 or 1 1, I don't mind 2 1 at all. Also, if you look at the vars of many other Human only comps, they won't accept all time controls of blitz as well, sticking to 0 or 1 second increment. While TW seeks 3 1 blitz, 1 1 bullet and 15 0 standard, this is only because we are allowed only 3 active seeks and these are the most popular vs the computer.

TransWarp vs GM Bassem Amin 2 minute 1 second increment Bullet game.

Follow that up with Mateus' one try vs TW today, again Mateus is GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

Really late results of the 2009 Computer Chess Championship

2009-05-29T09:14:00.009-05:00

Sorry about the really late results of the 2009 computer chess championship, as will be the MTEL Masters in the next post, but I explained below.

2009 Computer Chess Championships Final results

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Rank	Program	Country	Hardware	Score	Games	Title
1	Rybka	USA	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	8.0	9	World Computer Chess Champion
2	Deep Sjeng	BEL	AMD 3.2Ghz x 4 (r1-7), Intel X5560 @ 2.8Ghz x 8 (r8-9)	6.5	9
2	Junior	ISR	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	6.5	9
2	Shredder	DEU	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	6.5	9
5	Hiarcs	GBR	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	6.0	9
6	Jonny	DEU		4.5	9
7	The Baron	NLD	AMD Opteron 270 @ 2.0Ghz x 4	3.0	9
8	Equinox	ITA	8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 2.66GHz	2.0	9
9	Pandix 2009	HUN		1.5	9
10	Joker	NLD	2.33GHz Core 2 Quad	0.5	9

Another Thank You to GM Bassem Amin

2009-05-29T07:43:00.004-05:00

GM Bassem Amin played 7 games this morning, I got to see the last two, he offered a draw in one of them, but Rybka had given itself an advantage, so it wasn't taken. This is the hard part, when to take a draw when you are observing the game. Often, when GM's are low on time, they will offer a draw as well, but I have to observe the sort of set rule that the computer should play on as it's often flagged as well, it cannot offer draws in this situation.

However, IF I'm observing, and the position is locked and hopeless for either side, I will accept or offer a draw. Like I wish I was observing the 240+ move game in the earlier post so as to avoid pointless moving back and forth by the computer even. I would have offered the draw much earlier....since TW isn't played very often anymore, I don't feel like watching it as often, it's no fun to sit there a month and not have a game. I understand that some GM's and IM's with a high enough rating to play TW don't even want to risk one point, hey, they DO have the chance of gaining 31 for a win and 15 for a draw for that 1 point, but still they won't play. If I was in that situation, I would play like 5 games, risking 5 points, only to gain them back in just one human vs human game. But I am not a 3376+ rated player :)
Although it would be cool!

I'm sorry I haven't updated much, I have been having more health problems than usual. Just yesterday, I found out with all I've been through already, polymyositis, diabetes, knee surgery, kidney stones... maybe add Congestive Heart Failure to the mix. I visited a pulmonologist to check why I get so short of breath so quickly, I thought it might be my lungs, but she said she detected what I guess is called an S3 Gallup in my heart. Getting ready to look that up after the post, so I have a lot on my plate, hopefully it will turn out to be nothing, what's sad, is I was already denied Cardiac Rehab by the Indian Health Service..I had also been complaining of heart flutters for years, but was told it was just a pvc and everyone gets them now and then. They were the main cause of my anxiety, you have that happen, adrenaline rushes through your body and you get scared, naturally. I've had stress tests..echo cardiograms, but nothing like an S3 Gallup was mentioned. Also, I hadn't had any coffee that morning, so no caffeine. But like I say, I will try to have a positive attitude and hope that it's not the case. One day at a time.

But again, Thank You GM Bassem Amin, for keeping TransWarp active, it had even fell off the rank list because of lack of games...kind of sad. I tried even doing unrated games for those rated above 2800 or 2900, I can't remember now, but no one even took that up, the first time, I had the formula wrong, and NECF-InSchools (Jorge Sammour-Hasbun, who had won the previous two Dos Hermanas tournaments, until falling short this year,) got to play rated games even though below the -700 limit as did a 400 rated player. I then got the formula right, but no one would play then even, unrated. They wanted only, it seems, to play and get 32 pts for a win while risking nothing. I don't know. I just know I tried to let high rated players who don't make the formula able to play unrated, but no one did. So I just went back to the regular formula.

So I really appreciate Bassem Amin's loyalty by playing some games now and then. I really appreciate it. He's a cool guy and if in the mood, might chat now and then with me, which a lot of GM's won't when I just say Thanks, I appreciate the games.
Which I really do appreciate! :)

Thanks to GM Bassem Amin!

2009-05-23T12:08:00.004-05:00

Thanks to GM Bassem Amin for playing some blitz and bullet games after TransWarp had been sitting idle for quite some time. It hadn't had a rated game in 30 days taking it off the "rank" list, still needing 4 more blitz games and 6 standard games to be back on the "rank" list, so it's not showing it's 3969 rating. But at least it's back on top of the bullet list.

I think the GM's don't want to play rated because more than likely they will lose, I see that as an opportunity to learn and sharpen skills, but those rating points are like gold to some. I'm just glad to be back on the list, it's hard to sit there being online all the time and lose your spot because no one will play, I would have been just as bummed if TW wasn't leading after you had put so much time and effort into it and not be there. It's a major command, type "rank" without the quotes in the command line on ICC and no TW, even though it had been online the whole month.

But thanks to GM Bassem Amin, TW is back on the bullet list, he also drew TransWarp which I will post below, it is a 50 move draw, so be prepared for a lot of clicks. Congrats to B-Amin for his draw!

GM Bassem Amin vs TransWarp

Getting to this position:

Where after 40 more moves of piece shuffling, we got to this position and the 50 move rule and draw.

1/2-1/2

I wish the game generator could do more than 200 moves, but sadly, it cannot, which I suppose saves a lot of space on their server. But they are very handy to have when generating games!

World Computer Chess Championship Round 1

2009-05-11T08:56:00.004-05:00

Rybka started out the competition with a win over Deep Sjeng. At first, Deep Sjeng seemed to be holding it's own, but fell apart in the late middlegame. The scores (evaluations) were pretty even until Deep Sjeng played Bg7, with computers, it's really tough to say exactly what the losing move was, but that's where Rybka started to get on the plus side and take advantage of every inaccuracy that Deep Sjeng played.

Finally, Deep Sjeng resigned after Rybka had a Rook+Bishop+pawn vs Deep Sjeng's B+3 pawns... Evaluation had Rybka firmly ahead at that point by +5.00.

Standings after Round 1, Probably won't get Round 2 in until tomorrow.

Rank	Program	Country	Hardware	Score	Games	SOS	SoDOS
1	Jonny	DEU		1.0	1	0.0	0.00
1	Shredder	DEU		1.0	1	0.0	0.00
1	Hiarcs	GBR	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	1.0	1	0.0	0.00
1	Rybka	USA		1.0	1	0.0	0.00
	Junior	ISR	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	0.0	1	0.0	0.00
6	Joker	NLD	Core 2 Duo	0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	Pandix 2009	HUN		0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	Deep Sjeng	BEL		0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	Equinox	ITA	8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 2.66GHz	0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	The Baron	NLD		0.0	1	1.0	0.00

•SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
•SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Very Slow Again

2009-05-02T09:12:00.003-05:00

TransWarp has been sitting idle a lot lately, I tried an experiment where 2900-3200 rated players could play unrated, but the formula didn't take. I have asked for some support on this, but haven't recieved an answer on this yet, on how to make the formula where players who can put up a point per game plays rated, but players who are very strong but cannot put up a point can play unrated. I think this is fair as TW would be risking 32 points for nothing.

NECF-InSchools did play some rated games, but the formula didn't work as I intended, so what should have been unrated games were rated, but TW hung in there and won all the games. I'm now trying a new formula that should let those rated 2800+ to -700 below my rating, play unrated....hopefully this time it will work. It's a shame to sit idle.

Hopefully, everyone will have a great month of May, with so little going on, I didn't have many posts for April, I wish I did have more, but with no games...it was like 8 days without a blitz game until NECF-InSchools played, much more on the other time controls, still been 27 days without a bullet game, last played by GM Bassem Amin and 19 days for standard, again by GM Bassem Amin (B-Amin).

I hope my posting of the stats when TW achieved 4000 didn't put anyone off, I thought it was an event worth posting at least for my own personal records (not records like in set a record, but record as in recording data). TW did all the work, except for the books and some settings.

And now a word, as usual, for hopefully TW's benefit, just paid another $40.00 for the website, have earned a whopping $7.22 in about a year of trying, not even enough for a deposit, lol. But have to try.

Latest games of TransWarp posted on website.

2009-04-23T02:19:00.003-05:00

TransWarp's last two databases, one consisting of 264 games and the latest consisting of 271 games, is now available on the front page of www.transwarpchess.com Thank Max McMillian in his comment on the Smallville games for reminding me to post these. Usually I would wait until 600-800 games, but they are not coming like they used to do. This is because of the limited amount of players that can challenge TW, too bad GM's can't offer 1 pt by default, but that would really skew the ratings more than they are now.

This also gives me another chance to thank all those who have played TransWarp lately. Smallville, B-Amin, RoadKing, etc....TIGRANO, can't forget him. Oh yes, and Scorpion83, even though he damaged a few circuits ;) Anyway, in case the comments didn't show up, thought I would let everyone know that the last 500+ games of TransWarp are now posted online.

Smallville plays again! sad msg to TW by who knows....

2009-04-21T02:53:00.004-05:00

TransWarp was lucky enough to get some games from Smallville yesterday/one early this morning. As I have said before, I enjoy when Smallville plays. I usually don't get to see the games, like in this case, but when I looked at the account just now and saw that GM Nakamura had taken some time out of his schedule to play some games, I was happy. Then I check my messages and get stuff like this:

33. mdog (19:01 20-Apr-09 EDT): You should be named Smallville killer! or do you pay smallville for rating points, amazing to win like 17 straight vs smallville

Although Smallville is a controversial character on ICC, I doubt he would ever do anything like this for any computer account. (Accept money for pts). Most TW fans who check this site and my website know that I couldn't afford to pay for points, much less one lesson from GM Nakamura, even though it wouldn't do me any good, as I would forget everything in a few days due to the meds.

GM Nakamura enjoys trying different things vs computers and when he sees a position he doesn't like, I think he knows just by his eyes and thought process that it's a position that won't get him anywhere. When I see computer evaluation of early resignations, the computer usually agrees with him.

This isn't the first time people have said that TransWarp is paying for points, or that GM Nakamura is promoting TransWarp. This is silly, what would he have to gain from this? If he wanted to promote something, he would arrange a match with the Deep Rybka programmers, Vasik Rajlich or Larry Kaufman, to get money, but the problem there is that the match would be regular time controls probably and I don't think at the moment that the Rybka team after having several matches with GM's already, doesn't have the sponsorship cash to pay for such a match, I don't speak for Rybka, I just USE Rybka and believe it's the best engine out there. Which is why I state I won't use any other engine for TransWarp. So when/if ever there is that time for a Deep Rybka-GM Nakamura match, imagine the money that the Rybka team would have to cough up. It sure is a lot more than I ever could offer, heck, I'm worried about if I can pay for the website this month...end of the month another $40.00 is due to yahoo...it's a quarterly thing...when I got a website through yahoo again, I thought the payments would be monthly like before...imagine my suprise when they weren't. Luckily, I have overdraft protection, but still had to pay a fee for the check I wrote to the grocery store.

No, I just think GM Nakamura wants to figure out a trick to consistantly beat Deep Rybka 3, imagine the rating points he could get if he does. The risk of only 1 rating point to play TW at this point means he could play two humans at an even ICC ELO, gain enough points to play TW 32 games. We know he can destroy most blitz players on ICC on a regular basis. So pay for points, no...I wouldn't do it either, even if I had a bankroll to get me a computer like some of those on the CB site. The official Rybka machine can use 16 cores...that's a used car for me.

And to GM Nakamura, I didn't write this message, so I apologize for it's posting here, but I will not be even slightly accused of paying for points. Maybe just a trolling line put out there and I bit, but no way will I be accused of such things. It's still amazing to me that people will put this out there, it's been out there before, only to be refuted by level-headed whisperers...or even in other blogs, and I believe denied by Nakamura himself in an old entry in his blog, or it might have been someone else's blog. What surprises me more than Smallville's losses, is the game before, one game by a Chinese IM who played 5 5 rated blitz, one game, got a draw and never went below 5 minutes on his clock. Never seen anything like that before vs TransWarp before. Oh well....

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RoadKing plays TransWarp, wins 1, gets draw

2009-04-15T09:30:00.014-05:00

RoadKing an anonymous GM on ICC, played TransWarp yesterday, racking up one win and one draw in the encounter, while it was nice to have some games in about a week, that draw and loss sure hit TransWarp in the numbers game.
But that's okay, would rather have games than sit idle, that's for sure! So I congratulate RoadKing on his win and draw (in 13 games TW went +11-1=1) a pretty good result against TransWarp, that's for sure. This is when you wish you had some sort of x-ray goggles to see the name behind the handle :)

Here's RoadKing's win

RoadKing vs TransWarp

ps. I would guess this GM is a Harley fan :) Who knows? But that e6 square was the main problem TW faced, look how RoadKing dominated it, very nice demonstration on how letting a key square get vulnerable, you pay for it. But it is nice to be able to post a TW game, after Smallville played, one standard game by GM Bassem Amin, who checkmated TW to boot, it has been very quiet. I didn't post the B-Amin win, so I will do that now as well.

TransWarp vs B-Amin

Note how some GM's just get the job done the fastest way, like RoadKing, but some have to go through overkill... I think this is a sign of maturity, like is the program going to feel bad it got mated with 4 queens, 7 knights, 7 bishops...No, so it has something to do with the player doing it, don't you think? The program has no feelings of embarrassment, neither does the operator, the operator wasn't playing. I find it kind of humorous. But whatever the makes the player happy :)

Just for posterity for me...a few stats.

2009-04-04T10:56:00.015-05:00

My thanks to Sin-CityandMarv for sending me this picture of TW at 2009, again, it's just for my posterity. It's kind of funny to see the kibitzing, when I DO get to watch the games, (I didn't see TW get to 4009, why I wanted to save these), the various things that people say, I don't know if they are discussing who's playing the computer or discussing who's the best human blitz player. Just in case they were discussing who it was, of course by now we should know it was GM Varuzhan Akobian the top GM in California and I think #5 or 6 in the United States. He did send me a note saying he had fun, that's the main thing.

Just for posterity for me, I wanted to post a few stats that ICC shows. I don't have the Rank when TW was at 4009, but I do at 4003 and I also wanted to post my stats in my finger notes.

Statistics for TransWarp(C) On for:55:28 Idle: 0

	rating	[need]	win	loss	draw	total	best
Bullet	3437		1946	15	121	3452	3452	(05-Apr-2009)
Blitz	3974		8176	155	983	9314	4009	(04-Apr-2009)
Standard	3012	[4]	107	2	8	117	3012	(23-Mar-2009)

Rank Rat. Standard	Rank Rat. Blitz	Rank Rat. Bullet
1 3045 Q9550	---	---
2 3037 Foe-hammer	---	---
-- 3012 TransWarp	1 4003 TransWarp	1 3437 TransWarp<-------
3 2967 Nirvana	2 3615 MLRAKA	2 3159 Orcrist
4 2947 DesertCat	3 3544 Ubiyca	3 3128 DesertCat
5 2917 BountyHunter	4 3520 Smallville	3104 Smallville
6 2898 LinuxKnight	5 3518 SCORPION83	5 3097 Foe-hammer
7 2885 battlechus	6 3496 EREBUNI	6 3021 Q9550
8 2840 Harimau	7 3489 Wesley16	7 2984 Nirvana
9 2800 EcceHomo	8 3465 headSShot	8 2943 headSShot
10 2664 crafty	9 3454 Pchyolka	9 2934 BountyHunter

Finally, a table! But doing one for a big major tournament would really be a lot of work, unless I just did the top 5 or something. But one day I will get the hang of this. Eventually, this will go into the archives, I just wanted to have a little record online I could check out. I don't think a whole slew of visitors come here anyway, at least that's what my ad campaign shows...lol.

TransWarp Breaks 4000 on ICC

2009-04-04T04:43:00.008-05:00

After playing GM Wesley So a couple of times, a very nice kid, I had asked him a few questions about the battle of the GM's tournament and his result vs GM Antonio Jr, the game that was to be replayed, evidently it was played the day before the final round, on the rest day. Of course they drew and GM So went on to beat GM Laylo in the final round, clearing up all the questions in my mind. As for the games vs TransWarp, GM So tried twice, putting up 2pts per game, and couldn't quite get past TransWarp, he had chances in the 2nd game, but later time trouble ended any chances, putting TW at 3993.

GM Varuzhan Akobian, one of the United States top GM's and top GM from California then played last night, I missed all the action...sawing logs (sleeping). He also was putting up 2pts per game rather than the usual 1pt per game TW gets, I think he may be training vs his upcoming match vs GM Shulman, not sure. He's one of those "no chat" guys.

Here is the game that put TransWarp over the 4000 mark, I think he did some later studies or something, after losing enough games to put TransWarp to 4009, 11 games without a draw, the next 7 games brough 3 draws, the 11 games streak was over last night and early this morning, two sessions, bringing TW to 4009, he then drew, bringing TW down to 3995, lost the next 3, which ended up causing TransWarp to cross 4000 again, to 4001, then the final three games he played and where TW sits at this moment brought draw, TW win, draw, putting TW back down to 3975, I wonder if they will avoid it like the plague now? Anyway, the game to 4001, and also the game to 4009 it's record high at the moment (or weeks).

SCORPION83(3520) vs TransWarp(4001) *TW was rated 3999 at start of game. Post game elo's shown in pgn file.

The game to put TW at it's current "Best" (4009)

SCORPION83(3512) vs TransWarp(4009) (ICC Puts Post Game ELO's in pgn files, TW started the game at 4007)

Now the game that slapped TW back in the 3800's the first time (will post the last game too)

SCORPION83(3526) vs TransWarp(3995)

After this game, TW worked it's way back up to 4001, but a draw, win, and this draw put her down to 3975

SCORPION83(3546) vs TransWarp(3975)

So at this moment (Time of Posting) TransWarp is back down to 3975 blitz, but has broken the 4000 barrier twice, first to 4009, then to 4001. I saw the very last game..the one posted above, and I thought I got rid of that darn Guatemala defense, but I guess I didn't do it right, now I have, though!

Also early this morning, it was a busy night for TransWarp in bullet chess as well, with GM Tigran L. Petrosian (TIGRANO) playing a bunch of bullet games. He played 16 of them in fact, setting another record for TransWarp at 3415! It had been two weeks since TransWarp had a bullet game and that was vs GM Eduardo Iturrizaga (Iturrizaga) Both have been regular players vs TransWarp and I really appreciate their play. So this last night to this morning was special for TransWarp, breaking the 4000 barrier in blitz and the 3400 barrier in bullet. But without the play of the all the players, this wouldn't have been possible, I am grateful to all!

GM Bassem Amin adds to the blitz marathon; Take Two!

2009-04-02T14:42:00.003-05:00

GM Bassem Amin of Egypt played another marathon this morning getting one draw in the process. He actually had the game pretty much won, but time trouble is deadly to you from a computer, unless you are a premove expert like some. Even then, you might not want to do premove vs a computer, if you mess up, it will get you that way as well. So, TW is yet again close to 4000, sitting at 3988 I believe.

I would like to thank GM Amin for being brave enough to play the computer and not worry about points as it's just blitz and not like the World Junior Championships he competed in or other serious tournaments.

I will post the game a little later, I hope..not feeling too hot today...one of those days. Here you go, as promised.

GM Bassem Amin (B-Amin) vs TransWarp(C)

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April Fide Rating List Out!

2009-03-31T14:30:00.003-05:00

FIDE has released it's April rating list, GM Veselin Topalov has went over 2800 again to be the number one rated player in the world, but right behind him is World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand. I will post all players who achieved the rating of 2700, as rating lists are only updated quarterly, I would keep an eye on the much updated on liverating.org, which keeps track of all 2700 rated players and above throughout the course of the current rating period until the next rating list comes out. I will make a bigger link to this cool site for chess fans.

April 2009 FIDE Rating List, Players with 2700 and above rating listed. Link to official list can be found in the FIDE.COM newsfeed.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2812 17 1975
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2783 14 1969
3 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2770 27 1990
4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2759 0 1975
5 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2756 27 1987
6 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2754 37 1982
7 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2753 5 1983
8 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2751 13 1977
9 Leko, Peter g HUN 2751 0 1979
10 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2748 14 1983
11 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2747 23 1978
12 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2746 37 1969
13 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2745 0 1972
14 Wang, Yue g CHN 2738 38 1987
15 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 0 1968
16 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2730 10 1986
17 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2728 9 1983
18 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2726 25 1976
19 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2726 0 1983
20 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2725 6 1985
21 Ni, Hua g CHN 2724 16 1983
22 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2721 27 1983
23 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2721 19 1990
24 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2720 20 1974
25 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2716 5 1985
26 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2709 26 1980
27 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2704 18 1985
28 Adams, Michael g ENG 2703 13 1971
29 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2702 0 1974
30 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2701 10 1987
31 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2700 21 1985

Where will the next 3 months take these players and those scratching at the door to 2700 and pretty much the accepted title of Super-GM, after all, with over 1,100 GM's in the world, what else could we call these 31 players? It will be interesting to watch, that's for sure, as well as I'm sure GM Nakamura is glad to be back above 2700, but can he keep the rating? At the moment his live rating might have dipped below 2700 due to results at the Austrian Bundesliga, but that's all unofficial at this point, all that matters is the OFFICIAL rating list. Plenty of time to worry about improvement.

More on Battle of GM's and GM Wesley So

2009-03-31T13:20:00.004-05:00

While checking the International Chess Results database, I found that there isn't a result for the Wesley So - Darwin Laylo game posted, however, without hearing about a game taking place, it seems that the GM Antonio Jr - GM Wesley So results have been resinstated. Perhapes because GM Antonio Jr and GM Eugenio Torre drew, I don't know. With the Draw by GM Antonio, Jr it would have left him with 6.5 points to So's 7.5 after round 10. But I found on another page that GM So has 8 points, so he must have drawn vs GM Laylo. With no reason to play the game, I imagine they just let the previous results stand, as I haven't found a replayed game. But found these results posted interesting, note that GM So hadn't finished his game with GM Laylo, but the round 6 controversial game is a draw as before. Strange days indeed...

But it does appear the final results are in, it appears that GM So and Laylo drew, even not posted, I will post final standings as well, even though the final round pairings and results haven't been updated yet.

Round 6 on 2009/03/27 at 1630
Bo. No. Name Result Name No.
1 12 GM ANTONIO Rogelio Jr ½ - ½ GM SO Wesley 9
2 10 IM DABLEO Ronald ½ - ½ GM GONZALES Jayson 8
3 11 GM PARAGUA Mark ½ - ½ IM NOLTE Rolando 7
4 1 IM SADORRA Julio Catalino ½ - ½ GM TORRE Eugenio 6
5 2 IM BITOON Richard ½ - ½ GM GOMEZ John Paul 5
6 3 GM LAYLO Darwin ½ - ½ GM VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura 4

Round 11 on 2009/03/31 at 1400
Bo. No. Name Result Name No.
1 6 GM TORRE Eugenio ½ - ½ GM ANTONIO Rogelio Jr 12
2 7 IM NOLTE Rolando GM GOMEZ John Paul 5
3 8 GM GONZALES Jayson ½ - ½ GM VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura 4
4 9 GM SO Wesley GM LAYLO Darwin 3
5 10 IM DABLEO Ronald ½ - ½ IM BITOON Richard 2
6 11 GM PARAGUA Mark IM SADORRA Julio Catalino 1

Phoenix Petroleum & Dapitan City Battle Of Grandmasters Standings (Final)

Rank after Round 11
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 GM SO Wesley PHI 2627 8,0 0,0 3,5 38,00
2 GM ANTONIO Rogelio Jr PHI 2519 7,0 0,0 4,0 35,75
3 GM TORRE Eugenio PHI 2560 6,5 0,0 3,0 30,25
4 GM GOMEZ John Paul PHI 2539 5,5 2,0 2,0 24,00
5 IM BITOON Richard PHI 2473 5,5 1,5 3,0 29,50
6 GM LAYLO Darwin PHI 2504 5,5 1,5 2,5 26,75
7 IM SADORRA Julio Catalino PHI 2445 5,5 1,0 2,0 25,75
8 GM PARAGUA Mark PHI 2537 5,0 0,0 2,5 24,75
9 GM GONZALES Jayson PHI 2468 4,0 0,5 1,5 19,00
10 IM NOLTE Rolando PHI 2488 4,0 0,5 1,5 18,75
11 GM VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura PHI 2471 3,5 0,0 1,5 15,25
12 IM DABLEO Ronald PHI 2432 3,0 0,0 2,5 17,25

Tie Break1: The results of the players in the same point group#results against
Tie Break2: Koya Tie-Break
Tie Break3: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break (with real points)

(source: http://chess-results.com/)