Hello.
Recently I've noticed that now Stockfish plays atomic. I've decided to play few games vs it. Stockfish plays very good in midgame and endgame, but there are some strange things about openings.
First of all, Stockfish level 6-7 as black blunders in openings very frequently. Something like "1. Nf3 e6".
Secondly, I don't really understand Stockfish's openings book (as black). Just one example in opening I have played many times, Stockfish plays as black:
1. Nf3 f6 2. e3 e6 3. Nd4 c6 4. Nb5 cxb5 5. Qh5+ g6 6. Qb5 Nc6 7. Qb6 axb6??
en.lichess.org/eENO5DF6/white#14
Stockfish thinks it's a good idea to blow up white queen with a pawn, but I don't think so. Openings explorer says this position is much better for white: 79/5/16 for 661 samples at average rating 2k+
After these moves both sides has not so much choice and game continues this way:
8. Bb5 Kf7 9. Bxd7 Rxa2 10. b4
en.lichess.org/eENO5DF6/white#19
This position is relatively simple and white has 2 pawns for knight. Not bad for atomic chess.
I'm not 100% sure it's won for white. But I have played this opening vs Stockfish Level 8 many times and I often won despite the fact I'm a weak in atomic. I think there are 2 variants: 1) This opening is very bad for black or 2) Stockfish permanently blunders in later game after this opening.
In both variants atomic Stockfish is far from perfect.
Here is a small proof: 12 games (w/o takebacks) won vs Stockfish 8 after this opening.
en.lichess.org/eENO5DF6/white
en.lichess.org/lLaXeYwI/white
en.lichess.org/9q08vjCU/white
en.lichess.org/gJxb12m9/white
en.lichess.org/HZbC0UoE/white
en.lichess.org/YeRbZ8sf/white
en.lichess.org/7sduPcPU/white
en.lichess.org/gJxcaKSO/white
en.lichess.org/eArCHqHt/white
en.lichess.org/5MJD1keV/white
en.lichess.org/3wwlYx9E/white
en.lichess.org/HFMSCyxW/white
What do you think? Is this opening bad or are there black's mistakes in later game?
Recently I've noticed that now Stockfish plays atomic. I've decided to play few games vs it. Stockfish plays very good in midgame and endgame, but there are some strange things about openings.
First of all, Stockfish level 6-7 as black blunders in openings very frequently. Something like "1. Nf3 e6".
Secondly, I don't really understand Stockfish's openings book (as black). Just one example in opening I have played many times, Stockfish plays as black:
1. Nf3 f6 2. e3 e6 3. Nd4 c6 4. Nb5 cxb5 5. Qh5+ g6 6. Qb5 Nc6 7. Qb6 axb6??
en.lichess.org/eENO5DF6/white#14
Stockfish thinks it's a good idea to blow up white queen with a pawn, but I don't think so. Openings explorer says this position is much better for white: 79/5/16 for 661 samples at average rating 2k+
After these moves both sides has not so much choice and game continues this way:
8. Bb5 Kf7 9. Bxd7 Rxa2 10. b4
en.lichess.org/eENO5DF6/white#19
This position is relatively simple and white has 2 pawns for knight. Not bad for atomic chess.
I'm not 100% sure it's won for white. But I have played this opening vs Stockfish Level 8 many times and I often won despite the fact I'm a weak in atomic. I think there are 2 variants: 1) This opening is very bad for black or 2) Stockfish permanently blunders in later game after this opening.
In both variants atomic Stockfish is far from perfect.
Here is a small proof: 12 games (w/o takebacks) won vs Stockfish 8 after this opening.
en.lichess.org/eENO5DF6/white
en.lichess.org/lLaXeYwI/white
en.lichess.org/9q08vjCU/white
en.lichess.org/gJxb12m9/white
en.lichess.org/HZbC0UoE/white
en.lichess.org/YeRbZ8sf/white
en.lichess.org/7sduPcPU/white
en.lichess.org/gJxcaKSO/white
en.lichess.org/eArCHqHt/white
en.lichess.org/5MJD1keV/white
en.lichess.org/3wwlYx9E/white
en.lichess.org/HFMSCyxW/white
What do you think? Is this opening bad or are there black's mistakes in later game?