Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:54:09 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 16:50:05, Andrew Williams wrote:
>On May 04, 2001 at 16:41:34, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I'm currently working on the port of the Chess Tiger engine to the PalmOS
>>system.
>>
>>I'm planning to announce Chess Tiger for Palm in a few weeks.
>>
>>In the meantime, as a gift to the computer chess community, I'm going to offer
>>for free the current version of Chess Tiger for Palm.
>>
>>It is a full port of the Chess Tiger 14.1 engine, so the Palm users are going to
>>have an engine which is more advanced than the PC version, and FOR FREE! It has
>>all the main features of the PC engine: very strong engine, hash tables,
>>permanent brain, PGN support, book learning, multiple variation mode,...
>>
>>The main drawback of this free version is that it is a text mode version (no
>>graphics). So if you want to play against it, you need to play with a real
>>chessboard. There are also a few other minor drawbacks, but hey, it's free!
>>
>>So if you have a Palm, a Visor, an IBM WorkPad, a TRGPro, a Qualcomm organizer,
>>a Sony Clié, or anything that runs the PalmOS system (version 3.0 or above) you
>>might be interested by Chess Tiger for Palm.
>>
>>
>>If you want Chess Tiger for Palm (text mode) for free, then send an email to
>>
>> support@chesstiger.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>It's a kind offer, Christophe, but I'm afraid I'm only willing to accept an
>SMP version.
>
>Andrew
>
>
>(Sorry. I couldn't resist).
:) :)
You know what? In the original version of the post above I had added a joke
about the SMP version of Chess Tiger for Palm, then I have removed it.
I thought: "maybe it is going to be misinterpreted" !!!
Maybe now some people understand better why SMP was not my priority...?
Christophe
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