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Subject: Re: The Appaling State of Dedicated Chess Computers

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 00:01:00 03/04/00

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On March 03, 2000 at 21:29:34, Dann Corbit wrote:

>To my way of thinking, dedicated chess computers are pointless.
>
>General purpose computers running a chess program will pound the stuffings out
>of them.  So why bother with them at all?
>
>If you just want something tiny, get one of those palm computer thingy's and Tom
>K's chess program.  Then, besides chess, you can do other useful stuff with it
>as well.

Thanks for the plug. =)

I expect that even though Lang has ported Genius to the Palm, my program is
still much better, simply due to the hardware advantage.

(Although now that I stopped storing my Palm in its cradle, it seems to be
running forever on one set of batteries. That's a major plus...)

-Tom



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