Hi,
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Eco A00 (Irregular Openings)
The starting position file for the GGT (Great Gambit Tournament) contains 50 gambits which are sorted by the Eco Code and have to be played with switched colours. If you like, the A00-section is a cabinet of horror-moves which occurs rarely among serious chess players. Off and on, such moves will be good for an effect of surprise. Play 1. a3 or h4 or Nh3 and it will be hard for your opponent keeping his countenance, because he feels not taken seriously. Is anybody there who wants to say: just as Tony Miles has won 1980 against Karpov with 1.a3..? I have to say, no, but it's nearly right. It was 1.- a6, after Karpov opened with 1. e4, therefore it was not an A00-game, but the effect was the same
However, there are in the A00-section a few wacky gambits too which were really played in former tournaments!
But does this concern computer and programs at all? They cannot be offended. Each legal move has to be evaluated, it's as simple as that. Good and well, but a gambit always means a sharp challenge and a precarious test position from the very beginning. Particulary, when there is no help by an opening book. With irregular moves the gambit get an additional positional pepperiness. In this regard, let's go running hot the algorithms
Amar Gambit
1. Nh3 d5 2. g3 e5 3. f4. Often cited as Paris Gambit too, but in the Wikipedia "List Of Chess Gambits" the Paris Gambit is quoted with 1.Nh3 d5 2.f3 e5 3.e4 f5. I don't know..
The Parisian Amateur Charles Amar came up with his gambit in the 1930s. Probably nobody would have communicated it to the posterity, but Savielly Tartakower, a French and Polish Grandmaster and also the King of Chess Journalism of that era, enjoyed this gambit and applied it successfully. Please take pleasure of some of his famous and often quoted aphorisms:
- It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
- The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made."
- The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- It is not enough to be a good player; you must also play well.
- The move is there, but you must see it.
- No game was ever won by resigning.
- I never defeated a healthy opponent
- Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do
- Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do."
- Moral victories do not count.
Andor Lilienthal(* 1911) is the oldest living grandmaster. He played in tournaments with many world champions and won several games against legends like Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov.
Tartakower,Saviely (HBE 2719) - Lilienthal,Andor (HBE 2710)
Paris, 1933 (HBE is an abbreviation of mine and means: Historic best ELO)
1.Sh3 d5 2.g3 e5 3.f4 Lxh3 4.Lxh3 exf4 5.0-0 fxg3 6.hxg3 Sf6 7.d3 Sc6 8.Sc3 Ld6 9.Lg5 Lxg3 10.Lxf6 gxf6 11.e4 Tg8 12.Sxd5 Le5+ 13.Kh1 Dd6 14.c3 Tg3 15.Dh5 Txd3 16.Tad1 Txd1 17.Txd1 Se7 18.Se3 Dc5 19.Dxh7 1-0
Back to the electronic competitors. Looking at the Amar starting position you may suppose that Black's king safety, the restricted mobility of the knight and the imminent loss of an accepted gambit pawn, might be followed by a negative evaluation over one pawn. But look yourself, the engines are evaluating that ripped king wing relatively harmless.
Starting evaluation after 3. f4
t=30 sec. Black to move, but the Fritz Gui gives the values always in the view of White! The nodes are noted only for interest.
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cp kN/s 3CPU
Deep Shredder - 0,34 2500
Firebird - 0,39 5750
Rybka - 0,44 220
Naum - 0,50 4200
Zappa - 0,61 2900
Deep Fritz - 0,62 8600
Stockfish - 0,64 4950
Theory Table SCID
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1.Sh3 d5 2.g3 e5 3.f4: +8 =10 -24 (13/42: 31%)
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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1 f4 fe5 Lg2 c3[2] Sf4 ed3 Sd3 Df3 5:
Sc6[1] d4 Se5 d3[3] Sf6 Sd3 Dd3 Da6[4] 20%
2 ... ... c3 cd4[6] Sc3 Sf4 e3 Lb5 5:
... ... Se5[5] Dd4 Sf6[7] Lg4 Dd7 Ld1[8] 70%
3 ... c4[9] Sc3[11] Sf2 e3[13] cd5 Lg2 g4 8:
e4 c6[10] Sf6 Le7[12] OO cd5 Db6 Td8[14] 44%
4 ... ... Lg2 OO[15] d3[16] Da4[17] Sa3 Sg5 5:
... d4 Sc6 Lc5 e3 Ld7 Sge7 h5[18] 20%
5 ... Lh3 c4 Da4 Dc4 hg3[20] Sc3[21] Kd1 6:
Lh3 ef4 dc4[19] c6 fg3 Ld6 Lg3 Se7[22] 17%
6 ... ... d4 hg3 Dd3 Tf1[24] a3 Sc3 4:
... ... fg3 Sc6[23] Ld6 h6 Sf6 OO[25] 50%
7 ... ... ... Dd3[26] c3[27] hg3 OO Sd2 4:
... ... Ld6 Sc6 fg3 h6 Sf6 De7[28] 13%
8 ... ... ... ... Sc3 hg3 Dd2 dc5 5:
... ... ... ... fg3[29] Sb4 c5[30] Lg3[31] 10%
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The scores
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GGTJan10_4221_10+12_A00Amar 2010.01.24 - 2010.01.26
Score Fi DS DR Za Na St DF
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1: FireBird 1.0 beta x64 mp 10.0 / 12 XX 11 =1 1= 10 11 11
2: Deep Shredder 12 x64 FrGui 7.5 / 12 00 XX 10 1= 11 11 10
3: Deep Rybka 3 x64 7.0 / 12 =0 01 XX == 1= 10 11
4: Zappa Mexico II x64 6.0 / 12 0= 0= == XX 1= 1= 10
5: Naum 4 MP x64 4.5 / 12 01 00 0= 0= XX 01 1=
6: Stockfish 1.6 JA x 64 4.0 / 12 00 00 01 0= 10 XX 1=
7: Deep Fritz 11 3.0 / 12 00 01 00 01 0= 0= XX
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42 games: +8 =10 -24Winning %
One variation of Shredder I liked very much, pushing his connected center pawns consequently into White's half like a deadly sting (game 3+,4+,24+,29-). This was Shredder's right way to catch the second place and it's recommendation for countering the Amar Gambit.
But in total, the probability of winning is daunting:
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1-0 8 games 19%
1/2-1/2 10 games 24%
0-1 24 games 57%
Here is the pgn-link for the interested folk:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-221 ... r.pgn.html
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Test conditions
Starting positions: pool of 100 gambits sorted by Elo number.
Time Control: short tournament level with 40/20', 20/10', 10'+12''.
System: Intel Core i7 920, oc 3700 MHz, 6 GB RAM. Hyperthreading off, Turbo Mode off. Vista 64Bit
Parameter: 3 Threads, ponder off, 1.2 MB Hash, EGTB 3-4-5 (not used by Firebird and Stockfish, but sometimes used by the GUI, even for both engines)
Fritz11-GUI: remis never, resign late.
Rainer Neuhäusler
