Sorry Again

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!

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

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

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! :)