Nimzovitch Defense :: Wheeler Gambit

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1.e4 Nc6 2.b4!

White wins 17 (35%) Draws 7 (14%) Black wins 25 (51%)

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Now I liked this opening from the very beginning . White gives up the b pawn in order to develope a big center. I enjoy playing the Orangutang in bullet games so I thought this would be nice to add to the repertoire, or maybe find some crazy lines in there. I was disappointed by the wins by White but what I've been learning with a lot of these gambits is that if you win by 30% or more then the opening is very playable. Especially since I'm at a low level I enjoy throwing slightly higher players off by taking them into uncharted waters. I did a big tournament with 10 engines. I was looking into the best free engines. Some are really good. 49 Games in all. The results looked like this:

wheeler 2008
1 Rybka 2.3.1 32-bit * 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 7.0/10 32.75

2 Deep Shredder 10 UCI 0 * 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 7.0/10 27.50

3 Fritz 11 1 0 * 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 6.5/10

4 HIARCS 11.1 UCI 0 0 1 * 0 1 1 1 1 1 6.0/9

5 Gambit Fruit 1.0 Beta 4bx 0 0 0 1 * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 5.0/10

6 Naum 2.0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ * 1 0 ½ 1 4.5/10 20.25

7 Toga II 1.4 beta5c 0 1 1 0 0 0 * ½ 1 1 4.5/10 20.00

8 LoopMP 12.32 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ * 1 0 4.0/9

9 Glaurung 1.2.1 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 3.0/10

10 Zappa Mexico ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 1.5/10

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