Corus 2009-Round 1

Well, day 1 of the Group A particpants is over, with Dominguez snd Van Wely finishing up with a drsw. I watched Carlsen vs Radjabov mostly, with the game pretty even, but some wild positions. GM Sergei Karjakin surprised GM Alexander Morozevich and won with the white pieces, but GM Jan Smeets over GM Vassily Ivanchuk had to be the upset of the day.



Round 1 - Saturday the 17th

D. Stellwagen ½-½ S. Movsesian
M. Carlsen ½-½ T. Radjabov
L. Aronian ½-½ W. Yue
V. Ivanchuk 0-1 J. Smeets
S. Karjakin 1-0 A. Morozevich
L. van Wely ½-½ L. Dominguez
G. Kamsky ½-½ M. Adams

Standings after Round 1

1-2. GM Karjakin, GM Smeets
3-12 GM Stellwagon, GM Movsesian, GM Carlsen, GM Radjabov, GM Aronian,
GM Yue, GM Van Wely, GM Dominguez, GM Kamsky and GM Adams
13-14 GM Ivanchuk, GM Morozevich


GM Magnus Carlaen vs GM Teimour Radjabov



GM Teimour Radjabov
GM Magnus Carlsen





GM S. Karjakin vs GM A. Morozevich



GM Alexander Morozevich
GM Sergei Karjakin


All photographs courtesy of Coruschess.com A hearty Thank You!

Latest Games vs TransWarp by GM Dreev and GM Amin

I also forgot to mention one game by GM Gadir Guseinov, since there are about 6 or so games, will get right to it, then work on Corus 2009 tomorrow, I have permission to use pictures and quotes as long as Corus website is mentioned, which of course I will do!

GM Bassem Amin (B-Amin) vs TransWarp (I could only hope for a stalemate at the end!)



Then GM Gadir Guseinov gave it a go with the white pieces

GGuseinov vs TransWarp






We have here GM Bassem Amin's draws vs TransWarp (1 Blitz/1 standard)

B-Amin vs TransWarp (Over 200 moves, might not replay to move 209 where drawn by repetition)



Here is GM Bassem Amin's draw at 15 + 1 standard chess game. Much tougher to draw Deep Rybka 3.0 at longer time limits, so a shout out to GM Amin on this game!



Noticing a trend, it seems the best games played vs TransWarp lately, have been with the white pieces, of course there is a very slight advantage to white because of the first move, but I will post a game of TransWarp's as white vs GM Dreev next.

TransWarp vs GM Alexey Dreev (Dreev)



I do hope that GM Nakamura would continue playing TW, it has always drawn a lot of viewers whenever the program and Smallville would tussle. However, we do have Corus going on and detracting from those games probably wouldn't be ideal in ICC's opinion, but who knows, maybe the Smallville-TransWarp viewers aren't the same as the long chess game viewers. But whenever/if ever they tangle again. There's sure to be about 150 viewers, we'll see I guess.



Alaska-See One of Most Beautiful Frontiers

GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov games

These games were on January 9, to show how far behind I am due to the foolish walk attempt. But hey, I had to try, just have to start slower, rather than take on a longer walk, you live, you learn, but sometimes you just can't teach an old dog new tricks.

First was GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to play, he, GM Rauf Mamedov and GM Gadir Guseinov, I respectfully call "TransWarp's Azeri Assassins" Always trying to shoot her down! They are all nice guys and I appreciate their play.

azerichess vs TransWarp





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And here are two games by Smallville trying his old style vs Rybka 2.3.2a, which worked very well, but not against Deep Rybka 3.0 so far. But I kind of doubt he will play again after his games got limited when he was playing for 0pts. His rating is high enough where he could play 100 games now, but maybe making a run for the Human Record again.

Smallville vs TransWarp



Smallville vs TransWarp



Now to some games by GM Alexey Dreev and GM Bassem Amin in the next post, with GM Amin's win at blitz and draw in standard 15 minutes + 1 second increment.

Really Late Update...

I'm sorry for the lack of news lately, not that there hasn't been any. Smallville, GM Hikaru Nakamura played some blitz games some days back. He had been taken off my noplay list since Aug 9, 2008, when the new Rybka Engine came out. Also that same day, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (azerichess) had played a few games as well. Recently GM Alexey Dreev and GM Bassem Amin played a few games, with GM Amin even playing some standard! GM Amin also collected a blitz win against TransWarp, one thing about reloading an engine after it crashes in the Chesspartner interface, you have to reset your books and settings sometimes. This was the case when TransWarp played 1....a6?! as a defense. You will see this game below, as well as GM Amin's standard draw. I'm trying to get fired up for Corus! But last week, I tried walking to the store, totally messed me up for some days...only thing I had to look forward to was some new games to look at by TransWarp. So Congrats to GM Bassem Amin for his blitz win and standard draw! I will post the earlier games in another post and the later games in a post after that.

Smallville plays again

GM Hikaru Nakamura ICC Handle: Smallville played TransWarp again, but sadly he tried to keep playing beyond the formula parameters, there's a bug in the system where you can bypass ICC Player Formula Minimum rating to play parameter, I'm not saying GM Nakamura is a bad player, don't get me wrong, but his rating was below 700 pts of TransWarp's, this is usually not the case, I would have loved him to be able to play more games.
But after a person is 716-17 pts below another person's/computer's rating, you play risking 0 rating pts. So in essence GM Nakamura could have played forever and TW would gain nothing but only stand to lose pts..it's only fair.

More details tomorrow and games from Smallville and GM Mamedyarov who also played today, I just don't feel well after trying to walk to the store...very sore and can barely move.