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Schoolbook. 8x10 chess with the rook + knight and bishop + knight pieces added. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Sam Trenholme wrote on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 03:18 PM UTC:
Well, last night I finished up my project to list a few openings based on what ChessV thinks are good openings. After an all-night 12-ply analysis of Black’s replies to 1. Ng3, I have decided I like the following replies: 1. ... Ng6 (PV -29 millipawns) 1. ... e5 (also -29 millipawns), and 1. ... c6 (-85 millipawns). ChessV also liked 1. Nd6 (PV -61), but I prefer c6 because there’s less chance of it transposing to the Schoolbook four nights games (which ChessV likes a lot).

Here is the final ChessV-0.9.0-generated list (with human tweaking) of Schoolbook openings:

1. c3 Ng6
1. c3 e5
1. c3 e6
1. Nd3 f5
1. Nd3 Nd6
1. Nd3 Ng6
1. e4 e5
1. e4 Ng6
1. e4 d5
1. f4 f5
1. f4 Nd6
1. f4 c6
1. Ng3 Ng6
1. Ng3 e5
1. Ng3 c6

Next: Run 100 40-moves-in-10-second games for each of these openings to see which ones make Joker80 have more wins as white at this time control. Should I point out, at this point, that Joker80’s wins as White decrease when I increase its time control?

Timeline: There is no timeline. Whenever I feel like doing it.

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