Corus 2009 Round 4 Pairings, Smallville plays Again!

Well, this evening I was glad to see that Smallville played a few more games, drawing the first one right off the bat, but then losing the next 7 (out of 8 total played, the Deep Rybka 3 Human starting off 22 wins and 1 draw vs GM Nakamura.) This is just for those curious about how he's doing against the new program, not to gloat, because sure enough, I will get tells asking how he's doing. Heck, I got a tell asking why B-Amin's name was mentioned so much in my notes, when it was obvious that he had been the last one playing and getting my usual thanks, just as Smallville will for blitz again. I will post the pairings for tomorrow's games in the tournament at Wijk aan Zee. The Netherlands, Corus 2009. I will put in the results tomorrow as an edit to this post and post the pairings for Thursday, Wednesday being the first rest day of the tournament after round 4 which plays tomorrow.

Round 4 - Tuesday the 20th
Group GM-A

S. Movsesian - L. Dominguez
A. Morozevich - M. Adams
J. Smeets - G. Kamsky
Y. Wang - L. van Wely
T. Radjabov - S. Karjakin
D. Stellwagen - V. Ivanchuk
M. Carlsen - L. Aronian



Round 4 - Tuesday the 20th
Group GM-B

R. Kasimdzhanov - Z. Efimenko
F. Caruana - D. Navara
J. Werle - A. Motylev
F. Vallejo Pons - H. Mecking
E. l'Ami - A. Volokitin
Y. Hou - N. Short
K. Sasikiran - D. Reinderman


Round 4 - Tuesday the 20th
Group GM-C

R. Pruijssers - D. Harika
F. Holzke - M. Leon Hoyos
A. Bitalzadeh - E. Iturrizaga
W. So - A. Gupta
M. Bosboom - A. Giri
T. Hillarp Persson - O. Romanishin
D. Howell - F. Nijboer




Now I will post Smallville's draw, he had to work over 100 moves to get it, someday, soon I hope, computer's will recognize drawn positions. But in some cases, it doesn't know the intent of the other player, will they try for a breakthrough later?, is there a trap in the making?, can the computer break through maybe later with a piece sacrifice...so many things yet that prevent an unattended computer from making it's own decision on it's part. Thus the tedious play at times for the Titled Players...and sadly, I did miss these games, I thought I heard the comp power up a bit more, but didn't check and missed a good series of games. Now, the draw! I missed posting the win by azerichess I believe (GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov) if so, I will post it tomorrow in a new post, eep, I think I was going to be doing it at this time, but got surprised by the GM Nakamura games showing up, anywsy a win will get a post of it's own when I get up and about watching the games tomorrow, wasn't feeling up to it today.

Smallville vs TransWarp