Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:33:07 03/07/06
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On March 07, 2006 at 13:09:49, Per Jørgensen wrote: >On March 07, 2006 at 12:43:28, Dom Leste wrote: > >>Being a fun of unbalanced and attacking chess i would like to know which engine >>these days are best with gambit style chess? >> >>Dom > >Hi Dom! > >It's a very good question and it's hard to give a clear, straight answer. No >doubt, Rybka as the new topengine has got to be good in every aspect of chess >including playing gambits. Rybka plays bad in the endgame. In the opening and middlegame Rybka is vastly superior. >I am still waiting for Rybka 1.1 to arrive and that's >why I haven't been testing Rybka. However, I have some information that might >interest you. I am doing my testwork and running a ratinglist on the basis of 10 >fixed openingpositions (and the engines have no access to any openingbook). Each >engine is playing against all other engines with both white and black in each >fixed openingposition. These 10 fixed openingpositions are very different, some >closed, positional and some open and more tactical. One of these is King's >gambit. The engines have got to play this opening from this basicposition: >1.e4,e5 2.f4 > >I can tell you that most of these games are very entertaining and spectacular. >Which engine is the best to play the white pieces in this classic opening: > >1. Hiarcs 10 (Hypermodern ON) 90%!! >2-3. Toga II 1.1a and surprisingly SmarThink 1.00 each 76,7% >4. Shredder 9 73,3% >5-6. Fruit 2.2.1 and Fritz 9 each 56,7% > >In no other opening Hiarcs 10 has such a high winning-percentage with the white >pieces (the next best is Queens Indian with 80%). > >When Rybka 1.1 hopefully soon will be released I am very curious to see if Rybka >can exceed this extraordinary white-score of Hiarcs 10 in King's gambit. Quiet >frankly, I doubt it but we'll see soon. > >Regards >Per
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