Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Off-topic: Re: Genius + Palm or Novag Star Sapphire?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 21:50:39 04/10/00

Go up one level in this thread


On April 09, 2000 at 15:28:44, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On April 09, 2000 at 13:38:55, Pierre Bourget wrote:
>
>>Do you know the average ply search in the middlegame for Genius on the Palm at
>>30 sec. to 1 min. time and on your accelerated Palm is there a bit difference ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Pierre
>
>
>In the middlegame at 30s/move it reaches ply depth 7 to 8 on my overclocked
>Palm. On a non-overclocked Palm, it would be one ply less.
>
>But who would use a non-overclocked Palm, when it is so easy and harmless to
>accelerate it???
>
>
>    Christophe

It's likely that one reason is battery life.  Presumably an overclocked Palm
wouldn't be usable for as long as a normally-clocked Palm before recharging.

[I am not suggesting that it isn't worth it anyway, though. ;-]

Dave



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.