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Subject: Re: The Appaling State of Dedicated Chess Computers

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 16:49:14 03/04/00

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On March 04, 2000 at 05:53:53, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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


Sorry, got 'em confused.

Maybe you could download the Genius trial version (1 sec. thinking max) and
compare PalmChess to it?  I guess you need two (equally overclocked ;-) Palms
for this... but surely you know somebody else with a Palm and a few hours to
kill? :-)

Dave



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