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DarthMusashi
Listed below is a recent Dragons Claw Counter Gambit game that I played on playchess.com. The openings moves are 1.e4 e5 2.f4 g5. See game below.
Best RegardsDarthMusashi
Results from the recent Dragons Claw Chess Engine Tournament
Dragons Claw 1 2011
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Gull 1.1 x64 ** 10 11 1½ 11 11 8.5/102 Deep Junior 2010 win64 UCI 01 ** 01 01 ½1 11 6.5/103 cheng3 00 10 ** 11 01 1½ 5.5/104 Gandalf 6.0 0½ 10 00 ** 01 11 4.5/105 Aristarch 4.50 00 ½0 10 10 ** ½1 4.0/106 FireFly v2.5.12 (x64) 00 00 0½ 00 ½0 ** 1.0/10
Estimated Ratings
1 Gull 1.1 x64 3037 1327k nodes/sec depth 122 Deep Junior 2010 3017 3489k nodes/sec depth 143 Cheng3 2600 321k nodes/sec depth 14/34 4 Gandalf 6.0 2727 627k nodes/sec depth 9/335 Aristarch 4.50 2698 627k nodes/sec depth 9/22 6 FireFly v2.5.12 (x64) 2286 472k nodes/sed depth 7/24
Engine tournament ran on a Toshiba Laptop dual core systemwith 4 megs of ram, 360 meg hard drive, Windows 7 Home PremiumOperating System.
All chess engines started with the moves 1.e4 e5 2, f4 g5.Time Control: 5 minutes with 2 sec incrementsHash Table Size = 512 megabytes
30 Games playedWhite won 19 games winning percentage = 21/30 = 70%Black won 7 games winning percentage = 9/30 = 30% Draws 4 games
Those were the first 3 games from this engine tournament. In game 3 both Fireflyand Gandalf were chasing each others king. Firefly was up for a time but lost in theendgame.
Stephenson2
do you have a rating above your shoe size in OTB play?
My highest rating was 2205 after I had won the Hawaii State Chess Championshipin 1986 & 1987. My current US Chess Federation rating is 2087 and my FIDE ratingis 2100. But I believe I am playing at 2200+ level now.
I am a columnist at Chessville in my column called "The Search for Dragonsand Mythical Chess Openings" where I explore strange new openings andgambits.
Interesting your profile at chess.com sayes you are unrated but yet you brag about engine play and gambits. Read the article at chess.com about bad (weak) players their opening play consit mainly of gambits! Sit down over the board with a strong player club type and try your bogus unsound gambits. they only work in blitz games or games where you use computers Being a columnist means nothing.
That is not true. I had won the Hawaii State Class Championship and the openingI used was the Ulysses Gambit 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 to win the Master/ExpertSection. In that same tournament I drew against Leslie Au (2250) with my Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit 1.d4 Nf6 2.g4. I took down fellow expert Patrick Perry whobecame a national master the following 2 years and Hawaii State Champion.
You can believe what you want to believe but I know what is true.Best RegardsDarthMusashi
I checked your profile and you are the weak player. You should play gambitsto improve your tactics. Whether it is sound or unsound it should not matter.When you play gambits you have to play more precisely otherwise you getchrushed. I do not believe you looked at my column at chessville calledThe Search for Dragons & Mythical Chess Openings. There you can see thegames and judge for yourself whether I am telling the truth.
My blitz rating at the Chessville Chess Planet site is 1850 but should go higher next time. A lot of times when I play blitz I am experimenting on new chess gambits.And I sometimes test my gambits againts my practice partner, the chess engineFirefly 2330. However Firefly usually beats me. You should play to improve yourgame rather than play to win in your practice games. In tournaments you play to win.
play me online with out computr until then your rating lower than mine
You are talking about postal chess. I do not play postal chess because it takes too long. And I cannot stand thinking about a few game for 4 months. I normally play game 5 minutes. The most I will play is game 15 minutes.
Yes I mean a slow game one day per move no game under these time limits has ever lasted more than one week and 4 days If you are willing you have my username challenge me to a thematic game. (gambit of your choice colar of your choice) if you did win the H.State champeanship you are used to slower games . Do you think that gambits cant be played againest unless its a blitz game. Sometimes I do play gambits in long games I give people time to unranel problums sometimes they can sometimes they cant. Let's play.
arthurqq
Ballcrusher1, you are talking a lot of nonsense. Darth is obviously a super outstanding player and I can't stand by and watch you being so disrespectful. As for his ability just review his recent games. Look at his proven record. End of story. Want to learn more about chess and improve you game ? Just listen to him !!
chessmaster102
could you post the engines ratings.
The ratings for the engines are listed below:
Kaerleif
interesting opening i think Darth ill try in blitz or in 5 min.
thx
Regards Kærleif
billwall
Not so sure it is sound. Black can easily get in trouble and fall for a trap.
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