Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 15:51:20 12/26/97
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On December 26, 1997 at 16:22:22, Thorsten Czub wrote: >Hi all, >I want to focus your attention on Nimzo98. >It seems to me that this program is very strong. You´re right! Nimzo is quite a strong program. I was surprised how well it played against Genius5/P90 and Rebel9/P200MMX. It won both testruns over 20 games at 40/2h. You can see the exact results on the next SSDF-list in late January. BTW Fritz5 will probably not be on the January list. Paul >It is doing between 150.000 and 190.000 NPS on my k6/200 and plays nice It does between 135.000 and 160.000 NPS on a P200MMX. Paul >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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