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Subject: Re: What is SMP? (NT)

Author: Eran

Date: 16:07:49 05/04/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 16:54:09, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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 CliƩ, 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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