Draws 11 (18%)
Black wins 21 (35%)
With the recent release of the book Play...f4!, I decided to research the Bird opening. Although common in certain circles it is still somewhat Unorthodox. Basically you open with moving your King's bishop's pawn to f4! Opening up a weakness but taking a command of the e5 square. After I ran the small tournament (w/adjusted ratings) I found a common theme in most of the opening formations and it looked like this:
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After noticing this formation I tried to achieve this in some rapid games and had some great results. Once I realised what the 'plan' was I quickly overcame my opponents. Suprising what one little thing like a formation can do for your game. Of course I followed sound opening principles like key squares and opening tactics. It was great.
So the tournament went good and I was able to use my recently acquired FRITZ 11. Wow, this program is great, it looks great and runs even better. The results looked like this:
f41 2008
Fritz 11 ***** 0½1½½ 11111 111½0 11111 16.0/20
Rybka 2.3 LK 32-bit 1½0½½ ***** 110½0 1½110 11011 12.5/20
Deep Shredder 10 UCI 00000 001½1 ***** 10101 10111 9.5/20
HIARCS 11.1 UCI 000½1 0½001 01010 ***** 1½½10 8.0/20
LoopMP 12.32 00000 00100 01000 0½½01 ***** 4.0/20
Fritz won! I was happy about this since all the engines were running at their max elo ratings. With the help of Chessbase Lite, I can now publish the games in HTML format in a easy to use PGN viewer. The PGN can also be downloaded there. Click the link below:
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