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Subject: Re: Nimzo 98 bugs & flaws

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 04:51:39 04/28/98

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On April 17, 1998 at 08:17:16, Kai Lübke wrote:

>Some things I found testing Nimzo98:

>Nimzo98 is the only chess program I know that does not allow to switch
>off permanent brain.

What is the problem with that if you have the possibility to change to
player vs player to not use the CPU.

>The copy protection is a joke. It took me 1 minute thinking and 2
>minutes experimenting, now Nimzo will never (!) ask me for the CD again.

So what, remember the Rebel9 "copy protection" or Fritz5 or every
program coming on CD-rom. Nothing unusual.

>However, if I _rename_ the .exe, it suddenly wants the CD back!

But only first start, right?

>The sounds are also poor and don't attract my attention at all when I'm
>waiting for Nimzo to move. Fortunately, you can replace the .wav files
>with your own favourite sounds (I chose some from CM 4000 and 5500).

Possible to turn off the starting sound sequence with removing the
.wavs?

>Sometimes the move output is silly; e.g. once I saw the pawn move
>"f7-f5" noted as "f7xf5" - Nimzo sometimes captures when there's no
>piece on the target square! :)

I never saw that.

>A detailed review will follow as soon as I find the time.

Don't forget to mention that the opening-book-editor disappeared from
the last Nimzo3/3.5!



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