Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 21:50:06 11/27/99
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On November 27, 1999 at 22:25:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: Gosh that being the case why cannot we get this Tournament book if it is so superior to the general book that comes with the program. It does not make any sense to me ? What Kind of marketing tactic could this possibly be ? Wayne >On November 27, 1999 at 22:02:49, eric guttenberg wrote: > >>Most of the interest generated by the new SSDF ratings has been in >>the performance of the impressive Tiger program. But I am intrigued >>by Nimzo 7.32. >>Nimzo ranked respectably in the standings, slightly behind F5.32 and >>ahead of Junior 5 and Hiarcs 7.32. Yet at the Thuringer tournaments >>earlier this month, it not only produced 0 wins in 13 rounds and >>last place but according to Marcus Kaestner's eyewitness account >>produced a quality of play that was laughable, unbelievably bad, >>game after awful game. >>Has anyone discovered an explanation for this? >> >>eric > >I don't know exactly, >but in general there is a big difference between nimzo >using its normal (big) book and nimzo using its tournament book. > >Using the general book it doesn't do very well at the icc server >either against crafty, diep and many others at somewhat slower levels. > >Just the difference between these books already makes this huge difference >between winning an event or losing an event for nimzo. > >Idem for some other programs.
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