Polish Defense w/ c4 :: 1.c4 b5??

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195 Games w/ 1 1 time control

White wins 98 (50%) Draws 39 (20%) Black wins 58 (30%)

Yeah, don't use this opening. Its kinda like 1.e4 b5, you give up the pawn for virtually nothing. The main idea is rapid development of the c8 Bishop. As you can see in the games, Black doesn't follow up with Bb7 immediately. The Bishop does come out but at a cost, White ends up developing a huge center. It does score 30% but I think most of these are in the endings. I will use this in rapid games 'rarely'.

Engine Notes: Fruit didn't win this time. Sad cause I was beginning to favor it but it does show the power of Rybka. I have Fritz 11 at work now so look forward to some great games. Tournament details looked like this:

c4b5 2008
1 Rybka 2.3.1 32-bit 45.5/65

2 HIARCS 11.1 UCI 39.0/65

3 Fritz 9 33.5/65

4 Fruit 2.3.1 33.0/65

5 Naum 2.0 22.5/65

6 Deep Shredder 10 UCI 21.5/65

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