Author: Johan Havegheer
Date: 11:15:25 04/28/98
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On April 28, 1998 at 08:31:09, Kai Lübke wrote: >On April 28, 1998 at 07:51:39, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On April 17, 1998 at 08:17:16, Kai Lübke wrote: > >>>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 problem is I have to do this after *every* move which is extremely >annoying as I'm not always in the lucky situation to have two machines >to test on. > >>>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? > >Yup. Simply deleting "nimzo.wav" (or whatever it's called) helps. > >>>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. > >I have seen it in every game. The pawn move was an exception, but often >it says "Qf6xd6" when there's no piece on d6 and sometimes even "Qf6-d6" >when there *is* a piece on d6... :-( >If you never saw it, maybe it's CPU/OS related? > >>>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! > Harald, Nimzo3/3.5 was much better than Nimzo98. Most of the interesting options are gone. It's called a windows program, but you can't open a file in an other directory. very poor, but very strong engine, indeed. >Good info, but I never use an opening book editor anyway, besides >Nimzo98 is my first Nimzo. :) > >--- >Shep
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