Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 13:23:15 02/14/01
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On February 12, 2001 at 17:03:45, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Indeed. I'll be very curious to see whether ChessGenius gets a speedup when PalmOS moves to faster non-68k processors (StrongARM). In the meantime, it's a crying shame that no one is porting their professional Windows programs to WindowsCE. MFC and Win32 code should port painlessly, once you reconfigure your program to run in a smaller memory footprint (i.e. smaller book, smaller/optional hashtables, minimal/optional endgame tablebases). I'm going to give it a go in March, porting either Crafty, gnuchess, Phalanx, The Crazy Bishop, or Arasan. Ian
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