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Subject: Re: Nimzo 8

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 02:27:51 07/25/01

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On July 25, 2001 at 05:20:16, Sune Larsson wrote:

>There have been some negative voices heard about this program. Statements
>like "just pushing wood around with no plan" etc. Also the results haven't
>been too good. A lot of effort has been put down to test different settings
>in CM8, with some fruitful results. My question is if anybody has done the
>same with Nimzo 8?  A while ago I read some suggestions of changing the
>"Middlegame mobility" from default 24 to 48 - and the "Endgame mobility"
>from 10 to 20. But I'm not sure about the results. Then there are other
>parameters in Nimzo like "Weight king safety", "Weight pawn structure",
>"Futility cutoff", the different "Piece values" and also the styles of
>"Solid", "Aggressive", "Offensive" and "Allround".
>If not an absolute top program, at least it should be possible to make
>the playing style interesting and attractive.
>
>Any comments are welcome.
>
>Sune

Can somebody also try to get more from DeepFritz and Chess Tiger by changing
parameters :-)

My own feeling: waste of time. The programmer must him/herself found the best
settings!

Jouni



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