Author: Joseph Ciarrochi
Date: 13:19:42 02/27/06
Hi folks, I am trying to learn a second defensive. system for black, other than the accelerated dragon. I have been trying out the scandanavian, and I do ok with it in practical blitz play (no correspondence yet). One way I learn about openings is to pit two good engines in it and look at the plans they come up with. In the case of the scandanavian, I will put a weaker engine in as white (spike 1.1.), and rybka in as black, just because i want to see how black wins. Well, with the critical scandanavian lines, black has tremendous trouble winning, even when it is a stronger engine. I tried giving Rybka more time (200 to 300% more time), but still rybka has trouble against spike 1.1.. It isn't just specific to spike and rybka. I ran a little tournment with 20 games (rybka, fruit, fritz9, spike1.1. and ruffian 2.1) and white won 14.5 to 5.5. in the critical scandanavian line. The scandi scores well based on huge numbers of games on icc blitz (49% for black; but we don't know the strength level of the players), but does more poorly amongst higher level players in otb tournements. So....Should i base my opening choices on this kind of computer anlalysis.... The computers think black has long term disadvantages in some scandi lines. Or are computers irrelevant to my choice. best J
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