Smallville plays again! sad msg to TW by who knows....

TransWarp was lucky enough to get some games from Smallville yesterday/one early this morning. As I have said before, I enjoy when Smallville plays. I usually don't get to see the games, like in this case, but when I looked at the account just now and saw that GM Nakamura had taken some time out of his schedule to play some games, I was happy. Then I check my messages and get stuff like this:

33. mdog (19:01 20-Apr-09 EDT): You should be named Smallville killer! or do you pay smallville for rating points, amazing to win like 17 straight vs smallville


Although Smallville is a controversial character on ICC, I doubt he would ever do anything like this for any computer account. (Accept money for pts). Most TW fans who check this site and my website know that I couldn't afford to pay for points, much less one lesson from GM Nakamura, even though it wouldn't do me any good, as I would forget everything in a few days due to the meds.

GM Nakamura enjoys trying different things vs computers and when he sees a position he doesn't like, I think he knows just by his eyes and thought process that it's a position that won't get him anywhere. When I see computer evaluation of early resignations, the computer usually agrees with him.

This isn't the first time people have said that TransWarp is paying for points, or that GM Nakamura is promoting TransWarp. This is silly, what would he have to gain from this? If he wanted to promote something, he would arrange a match with the Deep Rybka programmers, Vasik Rajlich or Larry Kaufman, to get money, but the problem there is that the match would be regular time controls probably and I don't think at the moment that the Rybka team after having several matches with GM's already, doesn't have the sponsorship cash to pay for such a match, I don't speak for Rybka, I just USE Rybka and believe it's the best engine out there. Which is why I state I won't use any other engine for TransWarp. So when/if ever there is that time for a Deep Rybka-GM Nakamura match, imagine the money that the Rybka team would have to cough up. It sure is a lot more than I ever could offer, heck, I'm worried about if I can pay for the website this month...end of the month another $40.00 is due to yahoo...it's a quarterly thing...when I got a website through yahoo again, I thought the payments would be monthly like before...imagine my suprise when they weren't. Luckily, I have overdraft protection, but still had to pay a fee for the check I wrote to the grocery store.

No, I just think GM Nakamura wants to figure out a trick to consistantly beat Deep Rybka 3, imagine the rating points he could get if he does. The risk of only 1 rating point to play TW at this point means he could play two humans at an even ICC ELO, gain enough points to play TW 32 games. We know he can destroy most blitz players on ICC on a regular basis. So pay for points, no...I wouldn't do it either, even if I had a bankroll to get me a computer like some of those on the CB site. The official Rybka machine can use 16 cores...that's a used car for me.

And to GM Nakamura, I didn't write this message, so I apologize for it's posting here, but I will not be even slightly accused of paying for points. Maybe just a trolling line put out there and I bit, but no way will I be accused of such things. It's still amazing to me that people will put this out there, it's been out there before, only to be refuted by level-headed whisperers...or even in other blogs, and I believe denied by Nakamura himself in an old entry in his blog, or it might have been someone else's blog. What surprises me more than Smallville's losses, is the game before, one game by a Chinese IM who played 5 5 rated blitz, one game, got a draw and never went below 5 minutes on his clock. Never seen anything like that before vs TransWarp before. Oh well....

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