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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