Clay Sword of worst openings

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Avatar of Yigor

I thought about the following funny game. A team of best GMs plays against a powerful chess engine. Each GM makes only 1 move (the best from his viewpoint) and then he's removed from the team. The chess engine chose, on the contrary, the worst move at each step according to its estimations. The question is :"in how many moves GM team will win ?"Laughing Actually it could be just the Fool's mate in 2 moves.

Well, I'll test a3,a4,b4,f3,g4,h3,h4,Na3,Nh3 with Sigma engine (not really powerful on my slow computer but I don't have others) and tell U about results. The winner will obtain the Clay Sword prize!Wink

Avatar of Yigor

Hahaha, when I remove the standard openings library from Sigma engine, it thinks that the Grob opening 1.g4 is the worst possible estimated at -0.65!Tongue out

Clay Sword nominations (1st move):

  1. Grob                1.g4     -0.65
  2. Kadas               1.h4     -0.47
  3. Amar                1.Nh3   -0.42
  4. Durkin/Sodium 1. Na3  -0.35
  5. Gedult              1.f3     -0.33
  6. Bird                  1.f4     -0.29
  7. Orangoutang     1.b4    -0.23
Avatar of Conquistador

Bah, the Grob is much better than the engines tell ya.  I would not have had as many wins if it was that awful.  The Kadas Opening is absolute rubbish though.

I guess I deserve a clay sword.  Then again, I also play the Bongcloud...

Avatar of Yigor

Well, I'll slightly modify the rules excluding sacrifices. Here's the list of worst replies on 1.e4

  1. Goldsmith  1.e4 h5    -1.05
  2. Borg            1.e4 g5    -0.96
  3. Hippo          1.e4 Nh6  -0.95
  4. Lemming     1.e4 Na6  -0.88
  5. Barnes         1.e4 f6    -0.78
  6. Carr             1.e4 h6   -0.57
  7. Corn stalk    1.e4 a5   -0.54
  8. St. George   1.e4 a6   -0.53