Author: Mike S.
Date: 07:48:31 08/05/01
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On August 05, 2001 at 10:22:57, eric guttenberg wrote: >(...) In the >2-game sets I played against the other programs, SCC resigned pretty >consistently between move 20 and move 29. But against Nimzo 7.32, with >SCC playing White, SCC resigned on move 15! With Black, SCC resigned >on move 14! Both times with mate coming on the move. This observation fits to what I used to think of Nimzo (-98 etc.), after playing against it myself: Usually, I leave the opening theory early in the game (but unintended :o), and from all chess programs, Nimzo seems to be the one which calculates the *sharpest* replies to semi-optimal non-book opening moves. This was my impression. In other words, Nimzo is a very aggressive animal when it has to calculate early in the opening. Therefore I'm not surprised at all that Nimzo 7.32 was the one which mated SCC fastest. Regards, M.Scheidl P.S.: If you are interested in other games of old chess computers against pc software: http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/oldies2/old2_pgn.zip http://meineseite.i-one.at/PermanentBrain/oldies2/oldies2.cbv
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