Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:57:12 01/12/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 21:24:30, Paul Petersson wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 07:20:32, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On January 11, 2000 at 01:26:21, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>Only 2 weeks ago Chessbits wrote, that Nimzo7.32 is unbeatable with longer >>>time controls. Times are changing fast! >> >>If Nimzo were unbeatable at 40:2 it would top the SSDF list, isn't it? >> > >I have only played one match with Nimzo 7.32 for the SSDF and it was against the >secret "193". It ended 35.5-10.5 (46 games). I still remember it because it was >the first time that a program had a good chance to play 40 games without a loss. >As it happend Nimzo had it's only loss in game 40 as black in a B44 Sicilian. It >got 26 wins, 19 draws and 1 loss. > >Paul That's impressive, but "193" runs on a P200MMX or a P90. Nimzo is strong, no doubt, but saying that it is unbeatable at 40:2 is in my opinion very exaggerated. It is not what I see and the fact that Nimzo doesn't top the SSDF list tends to confirm it. Enrique
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