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Subject: Re: Bold statement by Chessbase or salesmanship?--update on nimzo

Author: Chris Duggan

Date: 14:32:10 12/30/99

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On December 30, 1999 at 14:18:49, robert michelena wrote:

>For what it's worth, after playing about 100 games against other programs in
>Yahoo chess (friends who, like me, are addicted to program v program play),
>Nimzo 7.32 indeed is powerful; however, there is a caveat involved.
>
>Playing on a 450 mhz K-6 2, 128 MB ram, Nimzo defeated a Fritz 6 on a Pentium
>600 III, 128 MB ram, twice.  The time control was 15/10, Fischer time.
>
>Nimzo seems to me to be very powerful at longer time controls, but remarkably
>weak in games played under 15 minutes.  My impression is that Hiarcs 732 is
>incredibly strong in faster games ( under 5 minutes),while Fritz 5.32 is strong
>at all time controls.
>
>In conclusion, if played at tournament time controls, Nimzo 7.32 does seem to be
>stronger then my Fritz 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32, Chessmaster 7000 and Arasan 5.00.

Where do you play on Yahoo, and what handles do you use.  I'd love to watch
comp-comp matches there.

Thanks.



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