Folks,
Thanks to Russ' hard work, the forced-opening tournament feature is live!
The Hardcore Pawn Stars are proud to sponsor the first of these tournaments - the opening we've chosen is Bird's Opening (1.f4). This means that all games in the tournament automatically start with 1.f4.
(Note that there's also a test quickfire tournament sponsored by the RHP Admin's Clan with 1.c4 as the opening)
1. A prize! I'll get the winner the excellent ChessBase Bird's Opening CD (or a book on an unusual opening for the same dollar amount)
2. I plan to have all games in the tournament analyzed by Fritz 8 and made available as a database in at least ChessBase format (and probably others) on the Hardcore Pawn Stars website and maybe here on RHP somewhere - what a great resource!
We plan to have more of these forced opening tournaments in future, all of which will have a similar prize and database at the end.
Enjoy! (and thanks again Russ)
Paul