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Subject: Re: A version of Nimzo (which one?)

Author: Carsten Kossendey

Date: 18:40:13 04/14/98

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On April 14, 1998 at 17:50:26, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>A friend of mine has stumbled upon a chess program, apparently by Ch.
>Donninger, named Mephisto Meisterschach.  I went through all the details
>trying to find out which version of Nimzo it could be.  Alas, no success
>. It must be one of the Nimzos (2.2.1, 3, or 3.5).  Could someone help
>with the identification of the proggie which is quick, tactically on a
>par with the top programs and positionally sound. It even has a small
>database in it, and is capable of importing PGN files.  Published by, I
>quess, Ossie Weiner and the HCC. I think that Nimzo 2.2.1 should be
>ruled out...
>
>Any info welcome.

I have it too and I asked myself the same thing. Also it isn't exactly
strong it seems, I score like 80% against it and I wouldn't pretend that
of any other program ;)

In any case I would guess it is Nimzo 2.1 or something like that, which
would make even more sense since the source code to that version is
available as well.



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