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Subject: About Nimzo 8 games

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:52:55 08/18/01

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On August 17, 2001 at 13:59:12, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

>>In my opinion Nimzo 8 can beat all programs with a good (tuning) book!


It is the engine that plays some dubious moves, not the opening book.


>Here are last "live" games from Nimzo 8.


They are g/60!


>
>Round 2:
>
>After move 51. g5? was white losing, but after Qg7 was game
>draw, and against 51. c6 win for wthite!
>(a strong testposition)
>Nimzo 8 played after 43 second 51.g5? After 67 seconds he has
>played Qg7.


Aha, a bad move...



>Round 3:
>
>After 31...f3! Nimzo was win, but after this
>he become a endgame R against N, and this is for
>"all" programs not easy to win. So game was draw.


So this shows again that Nimzo might play strong but has problems finding the
winning moves.


>Round 5:
>
>After move 55 GL (new Beta-version)was total losing, but
>Nimzo played after 30 seconds 56.Bc6? But 56. g5! is the
>win move. Nimzo 8 play it on (only) A 600 after 70 seconds.


So again, failed to find the win.


>Round 7:
>
>In this round, Nimzo 8 played against one "Maastricht-Beta"
>from Rebel! Nimzo 8 played in the middlegame very strong, and
>the win is very nice!
>

So, finally! :)


>Round 8 and 9 com in next days.
>
>Eduard


Round 8, Chessmaster 8000/NextAS - Nimzo 8X will be played today, 16:00 CET (now
we have 9:50 CET), live coverage in the ChessBits tournament hall, I will
operate Nimzo 8X and will be in the chat too.



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