A while back I was thinking that the best free engine for
long games could very well be Critter so I decided to test that theory out on
LSS. The jury is still out on that, but
as a further test I wanted to see how engines would perform without opening
books, so for several games I decided to open with either 1.h4 or 1…h5.
The result of pushing the h-Pawn did not seem to have any drastic consequences; all the games got
into positions that resembled “normal” openings except that I had played the
superfluous advance of the h-Pawn. My
opening play fared better with White, probably because White can afford to
waste a move easier than Black can.
Short version: playing 1…h4 or 1…h5 didn’t lead to anything
drastic one way or the other.
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