Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 03:49:40 11/28/99
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On November 28, 1999 at 05:00:30, Alexander Kure wrote: >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? I agree with you. I did quite a lot of testing with Nimzo 7.32 without book and its performance is just as good as indicated by the SSDF list. Nimzo is a very strong (and fast!) program. Enrique >Greetings >Alex
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