Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:03:45 02/12/01
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On February 10, 2001 at 19:55:03, Ian Osgood wrote:
>On February 09, 2001 at 08:09:09, Paul De Man wrote:
>
>>Hello there somewhere on earth,
>>
>>Can somebody help me to find THE program that will make my IPAQ smile with a
>>chess program? Where can I find it? Thanks.
>>
>>Paul, Brussels.
>
>Boy, have you come to the right place! I've been testing PalmChess (the best
>available, www.synctel.com) on my new 206MHz iPAQ against ChessGenius on my
>20MHz PalmIIIe. Amazingly, ChessGenius has a slight edge at equal time
>controls! (My test games are available upon request.)
Ouch! Do you realize what difference in playing strength it means, if the
programs were run on equal platform?
Christophe
> ChessGenius is a much
>better positional player, written in optimized assembly for speed. Palmchess
>has an engine based on Tom Kerrigan's Stobor (definitely not in the top tier of
>chess programs, as is ChessGenius). Pretty though, and it can read and write
>PGN.
>
>Ian
>
>P.S. Composed on my iPAQ connected to my wireless home network.
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