Benoni Cormorant Gambit

Database: 31-XII-2010 (4,399,153 games)

Report: 1.d4 c5 2.dxc5 b6 (3 games)
ECO: A43b [Old Benoni: Cormorant Gambit]
Generated by Scid 4.2.2, 2011.02.15

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0.1 Statistics and History
0.1.1 Statistics
1 1
Games 1:0 :
2 2
0:1 Score
All report games 3 0 1 2 16.6%

0.1.2 Oldest games

1: 12 : 12 (21) Kreideweiss Frank – Frenzel, 1988 1
2: 0:1(42) Bass Stanley – Hassan William, 2002 2
3: 0:1(32) Ertl Reinhold – Rennert Ralf, 2004 3

0.1.3 Newest games

1: 0:1(32) Ertl Reinhold – Rennert Ralf, 2004 3
2: 0:1(42) Bass Stanley – Hassan William, 2002 2
3: 21 : 12 (21) Kreideweiss Frank – Frenzel, 1988 1

0.1.4 Current popularity

Year 1800-99 1900-49 1950-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000-09
Once every X games — — — — 356883 — 961965
Frequency in all years: once every 1466384 games
In the 10 years to today: once every 784576 games (up 87% from all years)
In the 5 years to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)
In the 1 year to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)
0.1.5 Most frequent players (White)
1: 1 1988 50% Kreideweiss Frank 1
2: 1 2002 0% Bass Stanley 2
3: 1 2004 0% Ertl Reinhold 3

0.1.6 Most frequent players (Black)

1: 1 1988 50% Frenzel, Lothar 1
2: 1 2004 100% Rennert Ralf 3
3: 1 2002 100% Hassan William 2

0.2 Ratings and Performance

0.2.1 Average ratings and performance
White rating: 0 (0 games); White performance: 0 (0% vs 0)
Black rating: 0 (0 games); Black performance: 0 (0% vs 0)

0.2.2 Games with highest average rating

1: 12 : 12 (21) Kreideweiss Frank – Frenzel, 1988 1
2: 0:1(32) Ertl Reinhold – Rennert Ralf, 2004 3
3: 0:1(42) Bass Stanley – Hassan William, 2002 2

0.3 Result Trends

0.3.1 Result lengths and frequencies
Score Game length Frequency
1:0 12 : 12 0:1 1:0 1 1
:
2 2
0:1
Report games 16.6% 0 21 37 0.0% 33.3% 66.6%
All games 53.9% 39 35 40 38.6% 30.5% 30.7%

0.3.2 Shortest wins (White)

0.3.3 Shortest wins (Black)

1: 0:1(32) Ertl Reinhold – Rennert Ralf, 2004 3
2: 0:1(42) Bass Stanley – Hassan William, 2002 2

0.4 Moves and Themes

0.4.1 Move orders reaching the report position
There was only one move order reaching this position:
1: 1.d4 c5 2.dxc5 b6 (3)
0.4.2 Moves from the report position
Move ECO Frequency Score µElo Perf µYear % Draws
1 cxb6 2: 66.6% 0.0% 2003 0%
2 c4 1: 33.3% 50.0% 1988 100%
Total 3: 100.0% 16.6% 1998 33%

0.4.3 Positional Themes

Frequency of themes in the first 20 moves of each game:
Same-side castling: 100% White Isolated Queen Pawn: 0%
Opposite castling: 0% Black Isolated Queen Pawn: 0%
Kingside pawn storm: 0% White Pawn on 5/6/7th rank: 33%
Queens exchanged: 33% Black Pawn on 2/3/4th rank: 33%
Only one side has Bishop pair: 0% Open c/d/e file: 67%

0.4.4 Endgames

R Q QR
Material at the end of each game:

p BN R BN Q BN QR BN
Report games 0% 0% 0% 33% 0% 33% 0% 33%
All games 3% 9% 9% 25% 2% 4% 4% 43%
 0.5 Theory Table
1.d4 c5 2.dxc5 b6: +0 =1 –2 (0.5/3: 17%)
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
N N Be2 OO B
N N B B
1 c4 c3 f3 e3 b3 b2 1: 50%
bxc5 e6 c6 f6 e7 OO d6 b71
N N B Na4 Nc3 B
Q N B Qa5+ OO Q
2 cxb6 f3 c3 e3 d3 d2 1: 0%
xb6 f6 e6 d5 e7 b62
B Nc3 e4
B B Nc6 N
3 ... ... e3 d3 OO e5 1: 0%
... ... e6 b7 e7 OO g43

1
Q R Q R Q
N N R R R
11. d2 a6 12. ad1 c7 13.a3 ad8 14. c2

R Q N N B
e5 15. xe5 dxe5 16. xd8 xd8 17. d1
xd1+ 18. xd1 e4 19.f3 xc3 20. xc3 e4
1 1
: (21) Kreideweiss Frank – Frenzel, 1988.
11.OO Nc6 12.Na4 Qc7 13.c4 Ba6 14.b3 e5
2 2
2

15.Be2 dxc4 16.bxc4 e4 17.Nd4 Rad8 18.Nb3

Bd6 19.h3 Nb4 20.a3 Nd3 0:1(42) Bass
Stanley – Hassan William, 2002.
3
11.Qe2 f6 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Be3 Qxb2
14.Rab1 Qxc3 15.Rxb7 Rab8 16.Rb2 Rxb2
17.Bd2 Qc5 18.Be3 Qd6 19.a4 Ng4 20.Rd1
Qc7 0:1(32) Ertl Reinhold – Rennert Ralf, 2004.