Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:07:08 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 04:57:05, stuart taylor wrote: > People not involved in chess sometimes look upon a great Palm chess program as >being one of the lowliest little gadgets anyone could think of, and certainly a >most obvious one. But the greatest of handheld programs (soon to be Christophes >upcoming Palm program maximised for about 400Mhz (Arm).Is probably far far >greater in all its aspects than all the great famous old computers of the 1970's >and perhaps of some from the 1980's. More recent too, but of those, the Palm >would CRUSH them in every game. I doubt it. Belle (1980) searched 200K nodes per second. If the palm isn't fairly close to that, it will have a problem. There were other fast programs of the 80's as well, including both Cray Blitz and HiTech from the high-end hardware side as well as others that were also pretty strong... > We should be happy not to be paying ten million dollars for a recent Palm with >best program in a few months from now, maybe now too. Not more than one person >should also have the privelage of having one! > Not to speak of things like Shredder 7.04 on 3Ghz Athlon, which is almost >nothing today. >Who wouldn't have paid alot in the early 1980's for a pocket world champion? ANY >millionaire who understood what it is would have paid $100,000 guranteed! > One who didn't understand what it is would never even agree to keep it out of >the garbage (as far as the chess is concerned) for one second! >It's sometimes hard to explain this to people, I mean to the type who want it in >the garbage. I sound to them like a real baby, and all their opinion of me goes >down the drain! >S.Taylor
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