strategic opening rating list

[ozziejoe]

Hi folks, I have decided to form a rating list based on a strategic opening test set.

Opening test set consists of 31 openings taken from
----white strategic opening repertoire by im John Donaldson. Based on nf3, c4, g3 setup for white)
-----Roman Dzindzi. 's nimzo and bogo indian recomendations for black against d4
-----Caro kann against e4 (following many Joe Gallagher suggestions)

Level: Tournament 40/4
Hardware: Dual Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz with 2,048 MB Memory

Ratiings sor far.. I thought spike would be doing better, given it is described as a highly strategic engine

• Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws
  
  1 Rybkav2.2n2.mp.w32 : 2942 32 32 372 74.3 % 2757 28.8 %
  2 EngineShredder10UCI : 2802 38 38 220 50.0 % 2802 33.6 %
  3 TogaII (1.3x4) : 2798 37 37 219 49.3 % 2803 35.6 %
  4 Strelka : 2751 38 38 220 41.6 % 2810 33.2 %
  5 Naum : 2741 37 37 219 40.0 % 2811 37.0 %
  6 Spike1.2 : 2736 38 38 219 39.3 % 2812 32.9 %
  7 Glaurung-SMP-32bit : 2732 38 38 219 38.6 % 2813 33.3 %

[ozziejoe]

Interestingly, in the below position, chess assistant ratings suggest c5 followed by b4 (reverse benko gambit) is =, whereas nc6 is advantage for black

Yet...black scores 58 % when playing c5 (and faces reverse benko), and only 44% when playing nc6 (based on 42 games). I know this is small numbers and I can not believe the reversed benko (white gambiting) can be bad for white, if it is not bad for black (down one tempo)




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[ozziejoe]

rats ,

can someone show me how to convert epd notation to an image

[Uri Blass]

You should write D instead of epd and only before the fen

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