"Daeth Trap" Engine Tournament

Final Report on Opening

After running the two double round robins, I have tabulated the results. One of the engines (Crafty) scored so poorly that I removed it from the results. Crafty did not win a single game in either tournament, drew four or five, and lost the rest. I didn't realize it was such a poor engine, but the rest seem to be ok. What we have left is 60 games, a reasonable sampling.

Final engine score for those interested:

Critter 1.6: 17; Fritz 13: 9; Fritz 11SE: 9; Rybka 2.3.2: 9; Spike 1.4: 8.5; Spark 1.0: 7.5

And now for White vs. Black:

White: 21.5 (8 wins, 27 draws, 25 losses) - 35.8%

Black: 38.5 (25 wins, 27 draws, 8 losses) - 64.2%

It's not looking good for 2. h4

Now we get to White's actual responses to 2... c5, of which there were 3 played. Here the starts of the lines and the score for White in each:

3. e3 (43.5%, 23 games)

...to which Black responds Nc6 (50%, 13 games); Nf6 (16.7%, 6 games); e6 (66.7%, 3 games); cxd4 (50%, 1 game)

3. Nf3 (30%, 20 games)

... to which Black responds cxd4 (37.5%, 8 games); e6 (37.5%, 4 games); Nc6 (12.5%, 4 games); Nf6 (25%, 4 games)

3. dxc5 (32.4%, 17 games)

... to which Black responds e6 (36.4%, 11 games); Nf6 (20%, 5 games); Nc6 (50%, 1 game)

There is barely a hint of a hope for White here.

Please let me know if you want to see games for any particular line and I will post them.