The Latest Wins vs TransWarp

TransWarp vs Rahmaninov




Goldmund vs TransWarp (TW should know better than to play the French vs GM Rustemov!) :D




TransWarp vs Akademik



Nice game by GM Vladimir Malakhov (Akademik)

TransWarp vs Charodej (GM Igor Smirnov)





Yep, I have to set virus check to manual! But no excuses, GM Smirnov played a good game and won, I checked the game and TW was running very slow, even on moves it had played before, so I have to believe that darn Norton was stickin' his nose in TW's business and distracting him! He should be thrown out of the Tournament Room! :P Just one of those computer things...it happens!

AHHH, I JUST saw I lost connection with the server on both the Goldmund game and Charodej game. So it wasn't the Virus Scanner, my server just left me hanging. I see it really did A-Adly badly in a standard game. I apologize to him and thank him for his patience. The person who loses the connection is penalized 15 seconds and with a laggy server, it was bound to happen. So I guess TW needed a smoke so badly, it went outside and lost on the clock, which reminds me of Mr. Don Oswald, a man who was well known in the KC area for his support of chess and running chess tournaments. He helped me learn what to do in my first tournament, he was a great guy who also ran a book store as well, but when I started playing, he was at a stage where he would fall asleep at the board. We played a couple times, both times he nodded off, with me hoping he would snooze a bit longer (I was a 1300-1400 uscf player at the time, while he was 1800+). He always woke up in time to soundly defeat me. Sometimes he would nod off several times during the game, now it's pretty sad to lose to a guy who didn't even have to stay awake during the game! He might have been messing around...I really don't know, but the KC Chess scene just wasn't the same without him. I hope he's organizing a Super Tournament with all the great names from the past playing in it! (Surprise entry by Fischer!)