Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 15:18:29 04/25/01
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On April 25, 2001 at 14:42:05, Quenton Fyfe wrote: >Hi! > >Thinking of getting a Compaq IPAQ pocket PC - allegedly for work - but we all >know that it will spend most of its time playing chess..... > >So what's the best chess program for that platform? > >(Of course if it was a Palm I'd buy ChessGenius in a flash..... it's almost >worth getting a Palm instead, just to get ChessGenius). > >Thanks in advance..... In my tests, ChessGenius on a Palm is stronger than PalmChess on an iPAQ, despite the 10-to-1 processor speed disadvantage. ChessGenius is also more featureful. I am working on a port of crafty to the iPAQ. It appears to be about as strong as my Sapphire II, which is stronger than ChessGenius on the Palm. It is quite a bit stronger at the endgame, since my iPAQ has room for up to 6MB of hash tables. It has a graphical board with pieces based on the Cheq font (like Deep Green on the Newton) with basic features, including undo, time controls, and PGN save/load. It also has an Advanced interface which exposes the crafty command line (including autoplay on chess servers: look at NewtonChess on FICS for recent results). There is another port of crafty to the iPAQ called JulixChess: http://hem.passagen.se/uaberg/JulixChess.exe. You need to copy the app to your iPAQ by hand. Use crafty on windows to generate books.bin and book.bin (small book) and copy those by hand to the root of the iPAQ (where My Documents folder lives). Ian
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