So let me get this straight: White sets up a bad opening for black to play, taunts you guys into trying to centaur your way out of it, and you guys couldn't resist? That's your foolish mistake, and doesn't prove a damn thing. Consulting my cc database, this line has lost for black EVERY single time it has been played. I'd have declined to play this based on that alone.
Get him to play a game straight up with no default bad moves and THEN see how it goes.
That's not what's going on here.
Move along please, Mr. Know-All-Nothing.
So let me get this straight: White sets up a bad opening for black to play, taunts you guys into trying to centaur your way out of it, and you guys couldn't resist? That's your foolish mistake, and doesn't prove a damn thing. Consulting my cc database, this line has lost for black EVERY single time it has been played. I'd have declined to play this based on that alone.
Get him to play a game straight up with no default bad moves and THEN see how it goes.
I never claimed it would prove anything. I made the hasty claim that I could beat best play after 1.e4 f5, I wanted to find out if it was true, and it is more fun to do so via forums. By no means it would imply that I am better than computers, or better than the players here.
It is also possible that "best play" by computer standards will lead Black into a hopeless position because the only hope against a human would be crazy and objectively losing lines, so I am not really playing against "best play".
Everyone here has a good hint that the starting position is very very probably losing by force. Everyone also knows that I would be lost five moves out of the book against a computer.