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Subject: Re: Nimzo 98 bugs & flaws

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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