Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:51:27 11/01/00
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On November 01, 2000 at 03:19:35, Martin Grabriel wrote:
>I think more than half a year ago, I have appealed in this forum for programmers
>among you to produce a Palm version of your program, commercial or otherwise.
>This is my 2nd appeal.
>
>"Please..."
>
>I think Chess Genius 1.2 is very successful and is capable of expert strength,
>enough to challenge mortals like us. Its save and load functions, although
>primitive is extremely useful.
>There are more than 60 free winboard engines floating around, can't just one
>have a Palm version? Pocket Chess and ChromaGames (Chess) are the other 2 other
>playable programs...but there is always room for more....
The problem is that programmers are spoiled by the fast computers with a lot of
RAM.
The Palm has very limited resources, and most chess engines written after 1990
will not fit in 32Kb.
And let me laugh about the ones who believe they don't need to program endgame
knowledge just because they use endgame tablebases. :)
Notice that ChessGenius for Palm is a port of a 1987 program: the Mephisto Roma.
Even if a Winboard engine could be ported to the Palm, I guarantee that it has
absolutely NO chance against Richard Lang's program on equal hardware.
Especially the slow hardware of the Palm (68000 @16MHz).
Christophe
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