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Subject: Re: what is the best BOOK ? Nimzo ??

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 12:31:26 11/19/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 11:09:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 19, 2002 at 10:22:26, Ricardo R Santana wrote:
>
>>Hello All
>>
>>some years ago, I heard the best book was the Nimzo ones. And now, what is the
>>best commbercial book ? Of course a book should take into account the engine,
>>but who follow this statement ??
>>
>>thanks
>>Ricardo Sant Ana
>
>I do not know but the ruffian book seems to be very good for Ruffian at 120/40
>time control.
>Ruffian as one of the newcomers is ranked above Tiger15 and chessmaster9000
>
>See http://www.fsv.de/chess-server/Tournaments/tournamentsection.htm
>
>If you want a serious answer then the only way to find out is to do a tournament
>between books.
>
>You can do it by playing with different combination of program+book when you
>care to give every book the same programs and every combination of book and
>program plays the same number of games.
>
>Uri

If someone does perform that tournament, I hope people will base their
conclusions on the results of the openings and not the overall game results.
This would help to better separate out the middlegame/endgame performance
differences from the book differences.

: )

Bob D.



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