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Subject: Re: Nimzo99 - new engine!

Author: Kai Lübke

Date: 05:32:02 12/17/98

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On December 16, 1998 at 07:24:55, Harald Faber wrote:

>On December 16, 1998 at 07:11:13, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>From the ChessBase web site.
>>
>>The author of Nimzo99, Dr. Chrilly Donninger was not fully pleased with the
>>style and results of his engine and spent some more time trying to improve it.
>>It looks like he has succeeded well and that Nimzo is significantly stronger
>>now.
>>
>>Nimzo owners please download the new DLL and copy it to your 32Bit engines
>>folder.
>
>I am a bit confused. I thought with CB7 and Fritz CB has a unique standard now
>with ENG-files and the DLLs are only OLD engines which are integrated with kind
>of thunking code. Nimzo99 is NEW so what is going on there?

It's like this:
Some of the new engines come with a small .ENG file (which is, AFAIK, only some
sort of customized initialization code) and a bigger .DLL which holds the main
code.
I can at least confirm this for Junior 5, but from what I hear, the same is true
for Nimzo 99.

---
Shep





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