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

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 12:38:49 11/19/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 15:35:49, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 19, 2002 at 15:31:26, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>The only objective result is result of the game.
>
>People can disagree about the result of the openings.
>There are opening when it is not known which side is better.
>
>Uri

Do you really mean to say that something is better if it is easier?

Bob D.



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