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Subject: Re: The Appaling State of Dedicated Chess Computers

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 02:53:53 03/04/00

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On March 04, 2000 at 05:13:06, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On March 04, 2000 at 03:01:00, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Better test and see.  Somebody reported a 9-1 win for Genius!

The 9-1 win was against PocketChess, which also runs on the Palm Pilot.

My program is PalmChess and runs on Windows CE palmtops.

-Tom



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