Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 05:33:19 11/28/99
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On November 28, 1999 at 06:49:40, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >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. I think Nimzo is a horrible program. Couldn't win if my life depended upon it and the resulkts in that tourney reflected exactly my feelings, low quality. I stopped using it a long time ago. Like Vincent said last night IF_LOSING NEXT GET_ANOTHER or something like that, it was funny > >Enrique > >>Greetings >>Alex
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