Rybka 3 (White) vs. Chess-Forum.com (Black)

[Crossroad]

I would like to introduce a game between the users of this forum and Rybka 3!

Rybka 3 (www.rybkachess.com) will play without an opening-book, so the decisions are purely based on the engine itself and not depended on the quality of the opening book. I will use the standard 64-bit Rybka engine (not the dynamic/human version) and it will run on a Dual-Core CPU T4200. The engine will have access to all 3-5 Nalimov endgame tablebases. I will make the moves for Rybka and I will let Rybka calculate a long time before each move.

Our forum-users make suggestions for our move and the move that most people write and agree on we will play then. Our advantage is that we can analyse the positions deeply and use opening literature.

Rybka 3 (White) vs. Chess-Forum.com (Black)

The first move the engines comes up with after some calculating is:

1.e4

Now, we need suggestions, move-proposals or analysis how we should respond

[David]

I vote for 1...e5 to enter a classical spanish game later.

[Crossroad]

Okay, Rybka goes for 2.Nf3

Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3

[Checkmate]

I suggest Nc6

[Crossroad]

Rybka decided to play 3.Bb5 and play a classical Ruy Lopez-game (remember: Rybka is playing without any opening book/database).

Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5

You to move!