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Subject: Re: Nimzo's SSDF result vs. Thuringer result

Author: Alexander Kure

Date: 02:00:30 11/28/99

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On November 28, 1999 at 04:17:05, Marcus Kaestner wrote:

>>
>>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.
>
>hi vincent,
>
>here you could be right! i´ve made some tests again shredder 4, Fritz 6 and
>rebel century for the new chessbits and analyzed the games. the following thing
>was coming out:
>
>in 60 games nimzo got a result of +9/-7/0
>that means nimzo was much stronger than the opponents in the opening. it scored
>10:1 so overall a plus of 9 points! in the middlegame it was much weaker than
>the others, making an overall minus of 7, in the endgame it was of equal
>strength.
>
>i was very surprised about the influence of the fantastic kure-book.
>
>marcus


I am sorry but I don't agree, that the book of Nimzo has such an overhelming
influence on Nimzo's overall performance. Why not try to play testgames without
using an opening book at all to find out?

Greetings
Alex



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