Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian played two blitz games early this morning, to my great surprise. I pretty much thought that no one would let TransWarp get closer to a rating of 4000, it shows that there are still players out there who don't care about the points but the game and challenge. GM Hikaru Nakamura showed that there are GM's on ICC who will risk more than 1 point, knowing he's strong enough to gain them back playing other GM's.
One question I wish GM Nakamura would answer is: Does he think he could have placed near if not at the top of the Blitz Championship in Moscow recently, would the lack of being able to use a mouse and a two dimensional board make a difference? I know the difference between 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional chess is almost like night and day, except for moving very fast. There are advantages to both styles, you don't make mouse slips, you can change your move if you haven't let go of the piece in Internet play, smart move, etc. But at the same time, you have maybe better vision, working out problems better spacially, both sides have the risk of a touch move error...I guess it just depends on the person.
I guess I forgot to keep up on Dos Hermanas X due to my health, but I did post all the games, the qualifiers in pgn format, zipped, and the final 32 in just a pgn file on www.transwarpchess.com/games.html as well.
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RE: FTC Blogger Compensation Endorsement Rule Dec 01, 2009
While TransWarp Chess does get compensation for banner ads from Google Adsense, Google Affiliate Program, Commission Junction Affiliate Program and Allposters.com. TransWarp Chess does try not to personally Endorse any specific product, while I the blogger may like the idea of certain products and services, it is up to you, the reader to decide if a product deserves to be looked at via the ads. I comment on chess and computer chess, this blog is NOT about the products that are featured in the ads. At any rate, to date TransWarp Chess' blog and the small sister blog Paranormal Questions, has in it's account $1.59 from Google Adsense, no distribution of funds until $50.00, $0.00 from Google Affiliate Program and $0.00 from CJ Affiliate Program, $5.74 in holding at Allposters.com until $25.00 is reached in commissions. All this well over a year of blogging, I guess some abuse the blogging system to the point that this rule was made, I hope this satisfies the FTC regulation, as to what I heard on the site, it sounded like if the blog itself was dedicated to a specific product/s. But best to be safe.
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