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Subject: Re: Nimzo2000 results in recent tournament...why?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 14:23:38 05/02/99

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On May 02, 1999 at 05:07:20, pete wrote:

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>>
>>Should the makers of these various Winboard engines start arguing that they can
>>hang (and in this case beat) the commericals and start charging $50 for their
>>engines, since they're better than Nimzo? Should I start analyzing my games with
>>various Winboard engines instead of Nimzo2000?
>>
>>Roger
>
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>
>I agree the best freeware programs are not much worse than the commercial ones.
>
>But the NIMZO case is special : actually there is a version nimzo2000a which
>plays just as good as the original Nimzo2000, which is a very strong program
>while the sold winboard engine just sucks ( for example varduz on ICC uses


Just SUCKS??? Then how come my program has but one draw after about 30 games??

James

2000a
>).
>
>I think probably the author is planning to make an internet connection for the
>original program himself . What over reason is possible to offer something that
>is worse than your best ? Or maybe he wanted to fool millenium :=)
>
>Pete



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