Program to train against gambit play (*) with the computer,
with a strength adjustable chess engine (Danasah, currently set at approx 1400 EL0 when playing against it). Also included now are two options to watch an engine e.g. the 'aggressive' Patricia5 (with gambits) play against another engine (eg IM level). The engine gambit books are made in such a way that 1) real lousy gambits are not played, and 2) the book is choosing a gambit line as often as possible, so for Black it might go for e.g. a Benko gambit or so
and if you let it play with White, a lot of 1.e4 gambits can be
played. Thereby, if you try a gambit yourself, the program might
try to a counter-gambit (or sometimes an unconventional
line). It will play weak against other engines, and it not meant
as to play very strong/perfectly, but for human opponents, the gambit lines
will most often result in entertaining -not boring- games, and require
quite some concentration to avoid tactical mistakes.
Features
- Chess engine adjustable in strength
- gambits for Black and White combined in one gambit (polyglot) book
- Winboard (opensrc) interface plus settings
- ready made package to start with .bat file
- See Readme.txt for full description and use
- practice against the engine with gambit settings
- or watch games played by two engines (with gambit play)
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User Reviews
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just my own comments, other reviews are welcome. For serious chess players, from home level| to club level, this package is useful i think, because it sofar contains one of the best gambit books available. And an strength adjustable engine included, not made by e but as open source lended from the authors, for the specific purpose of opening training (and chess playing in general). For those at master strength thinking that gambits are not a suitable opening strategy, i would challenge them to set the engine (danasah.cfg) at maximum strength, and try to beat the program; good luck :)