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Subject: Strength of Nimzo98

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 13:22:22 12/26/97


Hi all,
I want to focus your attention on Nimzo98.
It seems to me that this program is very strong.
It is doing between 150.000 and 190.000 NPS on my k6/200 and plays nice
games, from my personal point of view even better games than Fritz5.

I cannot reproduce a score like 6-0 against Nimzo that was mentioned in
another thread here.

Although Nimzo is not playing positional chess like Junior/Shredder or
Rebel9, it plays not that senseless mainlines and plans like fritz5.

In the moment e.g. it plays a good game against Rebel9 and evaluates
with very high scores...

It looks to me as is we have now a group of several TOP programs that
could fight tough against each other

1.Rebel9
2.Hiarcs6
3.Virtual2
4.Shredder2
5.Nimzo98
6.Junior
7.Mchess7

I am not sure WHERE to rank junior exactly, as I have never played with
it but I am sure the above few programs are together in a group I would
call the "top-group" of the ssdf-list.

Thanks to the programmers for their efforts !

This group of 7 gives me much more fun than all 7 places ranked by
Lang-programs. Nothing against genius, but monotony is boring and
variance is nice.

What a pity that Virtual2 and Junior takes time. But we can buy the
other programs.



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