Saturday, July 5, 2008

Bird's Opening :: Sturm Gambit

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White wins 10 (33%) Draws 6 (20%) Black Wins 14 (47%)



I was a bit shocked by these numbers. I felt this gambit is very playable for white and I have had great results in 1 min games on chess.com. To be honest though, a bunch of the wins for Black weren't in the opening. Some very strange positions came from this gambit. Think of a cross between the Queen's Gambit Declined and the Bird Formation I posted a few posts back. Very interesting stuff.


I ran the tournament with 4 engines at their max elo. Rybka won over Fritz 11. After getting Fritz 11 I figured it would tear through all these other engines. I figured wrong. Rybka and HIARC still far very well. There were 30 games with a 4 2 time control. All games can be viewed online by click the link at the top. The results were:

sturm1 2008
Rybka 2.3.1 32-bit ***** 00½1½ 11010 111½1 9.5/152
Fritz 11 11½0½ ***** ½0½10 111½0 8.5/153
HIARCS 11.1 UCI 00101 ½1½01 ***** 00001 6.0/15 50.504
Deep Shredder 10 UCI 000½0 000½1 11110 ***** 6.0/15 41.50
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