Thanks to GM Nakamura (Smallville) for the blitz games!

 Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, whose handle is Smallville on the Internet Chess Club, where TransWarp resides, played 5 blitz games yesterday!  I thank GM Nakamura for taking time out of his day to mess with a computer, I know he likes to play other GMs blitz or 1-minute where he dominates, 1-minute is a special pool where you cannot pick your opponents, there are no computers and you are paired with someone close to your rating.  However, GM Nakamura is so good at 1 minute chess vs other humans, he has chances to lose a lot of points just for a draw, like 15 or 31 for a loss, gaining only 1 point per win most of the time, because of the rating difference.  These games are against players, who at normal tournament speed, would give GM Nakamura a good game, so he can't make a major mistake and if he does, he has to try to survive the minute with fast, defensive moves and win on time, this isn't really frowned on in 1-minute chess as it is in regular blitz chess.  Some Grandmasters don't like it when they have a won game and have to play it out because the other guy wants to win on time in blitz, some would say that's part of the game, but at their level, it can be tedious.

 So thanks to GM Nakamura for playing, I will try to post one or two if he didn't resign early because it's kind of futile to try to win after making a mistake against a computer.  Not trying to brag, it's how strong the computers have become.  I won't be able to afford the next level computer any time soon, TransWarp will become a memory eventually as many great computer accounts on ICC have, too many to name but well respected, mostly crafty chess engines, before Rybka and other types came.  Computer chess is an expensive hobby, to where the real competition, computer vs computer engine games, are played on computers that would buy me a nice used car!  And I don't have a car.  I also want to thank Smallville because the pharmacy made an error and didn't fill my pain meds, I have been suffering over the weekend on small rations of my mophine and percocet so as to not go into full withdrawl, although I am suffering some until my scripts are filled soon.  Both pain and withdrawl symptoms, I have forgotten to take my meds several times in the past and getting towards full withdrawl is terrible.  But it's the lesser of two evils in order to live a productive life.  There's another word they use, but I can't think of it now...  So it was a nice surprise and took my mind off the bad for a while. Thanks again, GM Nakamura.