Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:45:23 11/28/99
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On November 28, 1999 at 05:05:52, Alexander Kure wrote: >On November 27, 1999 at 22:25:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>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. >> > > >There is a difference. > > >>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. > > >Sorry Vincent, that is not true. Nimzo does for example extremly well (> 50%) >against crafty at 30 1 (just do a search to find out). > Somehow you and vincent are not on the 'same page' here is the search results: search +=crafty varguz Your search found 197 games: [109 0 88 = (white win,draw,black win)] search -crafty varguz Your search found 122 games: [70 0 52 = (white win,draw,black win)] That isn't > 50%, so I am not sure exactly which 'crafty' and which 'nimzo' you are talking about... > >> >>Just the difference between these books already makes this huge difference >>between winning an event or losing an event for nimzo. >> > >I do not agree! At SSDF Nimzo 7.32 playes with his standard book and got >reasonable results. I do not know what book they used at Thueringen tournament, >but no matter what book they used, it would not make much difference on Nimzo's >overall performance. > >>Idem for some other programs.
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