Here's a list of opponents that TransWarp has faced. I will post their real name if available on ICC, followed by (ICC Handle) or in case of anonymous accounts, I will just post their ICC Handles. All FIDE ratings from April, 2008 Rating Supplement.
1. GM Gata Kamsky (Talion) FIDE 2726 (#15 in the world)- Who will be facing GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria FIDE 2767 (#4 in the world) for a chance to play for the World Championship. Go Gata!
2. GM Hikaru Nakamura (Smallville) FIDE 2686 (#34 in the world) Rating should be a bit higher, he's been on a tear lately. But in my opinion, should concentrate on chess instead of pointless and petty things that seem to bother him. Put that energy into his game, not the people around him. 29 wins vs TransWarp (Not bothering to count the blockade and move a piece back & forth)
3. GM Hristos Banikas (bani) FIDE 2600 (#2 in Greece) A very nice man, quiet but very polite.
4. GM Maxim Dlugy (Dlugy) FIDE 2518 a past World Junior Champion & Major Tourny Winner. A really cool guy. Check out http://www.dlugy.com/ for more info!
5. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Mateus) FIDE 2632 (#91 in world) A top French GM!
6. GM (Rahmaninov) FIDE Unk ICC Blitz 3000 A very courteous player, nice visits at times.
7. GM Alexey Dreev (Dreev) FIDE 2657 (#62 in world) A very nice player as well (just a note, a lot of people consider (C) computer accounts as just that, the computer, not the face behind the account, who paid the money, etc..spent a lot to get it going & just plain ignore/insult you. Why I note the cool players, like Dreev).
8. GM Zviad Izoria (Pikaso) FIDE 2625 (just missing top 100) #3 player of Georgia (Country not state, sheesh you guys!) ;) Nice player, of his 2 draws, one was "no material" I like these draws, no blockade involved, a true draw!
9. (Nielsen) ICC Blitz 3392 A very strong player, had a supposed feud with Smallville, rumor mill says it's Magnus Carlsen, who knows...if so would be FIDE 2765 and #5 in world! Has 1 win vs TransWarp. (Will do page with total mates of TransWarp)
10. IM Damian Lemos (Blitz-King) FIDE 2458 ICC Blitz 3340 A pretty cool Dude from Argentina, confirmation that yes, indeed, women from Argentina are hot.
11. GM Andrey Deviatkin (Shadeath) ELO 2568 Just awarded his GM title! (IM when played) Congrats Andrey!
12. GM Ilya Gurevich (junior) FIDE 2586 Another World Junior Champion! Doesn't play much OTB anymore it seems. Another cool guy!
13. GM Pablo Zarnicki (garompon) FIDE 2515 Yet another World Junior Champion! Well known on ICC.
14. IM Jeorg Blauert (MRXYZ2) FIDE 2358 Doesn't play too often, but fun to watch!
15. GM Laurent Fressinet (Coluche) FIDE 2656 (#65 in the world) hasn't played in a while.
16. GM Melikset Khachiyan (dragon-70) FIDE 2500 Took 37 swings at TW!
17. GM Rauf Mamedov (GeneraLisimus) FIDE 2617 Just missed top 100 (last two tied at 2628) also plays under many anonymous accounts, Franchesko was one, until he used it in an online tournament that revealed the names (Like Dos Hermanas) and abandoned it afterwards.
18. GM Julian Radulski (Zeratul) FIDE 2514 One of my favorite players, he would play a lot of bullet until the darn puter got over 700pts higher... I hope he understands that playing without chance of gain of at least 1 pt, some players tend not to care how they play and don't play their best.
19. (ASSAULT4EVER)(GM) ICC Blitz (2590) an ICC best of 2988. Another anonymous GM.
20. (Randon)(IM) ICC Blitz (2685) an ICC best of 3189. An anonymous IM, nice person though!
21. IM Nikolay Noritsyn (KAPAMA30B) FIDE 2367 Was an anonymous IM, but Dos Hermanas shows real names in crosstables. He's really a cool guy and a very good Bullet player, getting a win vs TransWarp in Bullet!
22. GM Alexander Rustemov (Goldmund) FIDE 2552 A very good Blitz player! However we did have a disagreement about a certain defense that he found he could use against TransWarp and blockade and flag for wins.. a version of the French Winawer: advance variation...he played the same game over and over for 18 times...what happens? TransWarp gets norated! When it's clearly in ICC's Help Abuse file, Note #7 :
"7. Playing the same line over and over against a computer, to gain rating
points. We will edit your rating to whatever we feel is reasonable if
you do this."
I will address this problem (ongoing, but not with Goldmund), in another entry, it's a long story. But Alexander is cool at least with TransWarp. But there is a serious problem going on with certain opening/s.
23. (markovicg) Goran Markovic ICC Blitz (2910) best of 3059, a very strong blitz & bullet player.
24. GM Alexander Riazantsev (A-Riazantsev) FIDE 2638 (#83 in the world) been absent lately.
25. GM Ibro Saric (Sensei24) FIDE 2541* with recent tournament activity should be 2554, but his FIDE personal card says unrated, but rating chart shows otherwise...who knows? It's FIDE!
(26-50 in next post)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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jayhawker its so nice to read all these info , i believe youre the first rybka tester/account owner at icc who give life to a computer account, these blog well give pulse and breath to transwarp, cheers to you!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank You, it's a start, may take a bit with my limitations, time to call it a day already. Thanks for also pointing me to this Blog indirectly. I saw your blog and thought "Why Not?" gives me more room to address issues I cannot cover in finger notes and such.
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