CCC Forum vs BigLion chess960

[Spock]

Ngf3 - Steve, Matthias, Christopher (not confirmed ?)
b3 - Gunther, Gerold, Tano
b4 Graham

A tie at the moment, about 12 hrs left for the vote, it is a.m UK time here as I post this

[tano-urayoan]

Excuse me Ray, I think Christopher's move is Nef3.

It would be good if I could get rid of my typos also..... i meant Nef3 of course not Neg3.

[Graham Banks]

Excuse me Ray, I think Christopher's move is Nef3

Christopher posted - "I like Ngf3 although e4 is also ok."
The post you were looking at was his correction of a reply to Steve's move.

Cheers,
Graham.

[tano-urayoan]

b4 is a good move Mr. Banks but I am also thinking that the black bishop could also go to a3 or b2. But you idea of the white bishop on b3 is very good.

P.d. I just edited my post with a correct quote, maybe I misinterpreted Mr. Conkie's wording.

[Christopher Conkie]

b4 is a good move Mr. Banks but I am also thinking that the black bishop could also go to a3 or b2. But you idea of the white bishop on b3 is very good.

P.d. I just edited my post with a correct quote, maybe I misinterpreted Mr. Conkie's wording.

You did but that's OK, as I also made a typo.

Ngf3 is my move although part of me says we should live dangerously and play something obscure and in keeping with the fact this is a Chess960 game.

If there is a tie I could be persuaded of b3 but it's Ngf3 for now.

Christopher

[gerold]

1.b3.also.

Best,

Gerold.

Hi Gerold, have you ever before started a chess game with b3 ?

.

For 485 i always start with b3.

For move 2.d2-d3. Now the Q and the black B has full mobility.

Best,

Gerold.

P.S. look out Black Rook and Black King here we come

[Spock]

A useless piece of information - in the CCRL *blitz* chess960 database, this opening has been played 70 times. A 21.4% draw rate and a white score of 52.1%

This is the only bit of computer help I'll offer.. In those 70 games, here were the openings played:

Ngf3 - 24 games
e4 - 14
d4 - 13
c4 - 9
d3 - 4
b3 - 3
h4 - 3

[Spock]

Hmm.. well we still have a tie in the voting

[Graham Banks]

Hmm.. well we still have a tie in the voting

I'm happy to break the tie by changing from 1.b4 to 1.b3.

[Spock]

Thanks Graham!

Ngf3 - Steve, Matthias, Christopher (not confirmed ?)
b3 - Gunther, Gerold, Tano, Graham

b3 it is

BigLion roars, and the match is underway !