Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:42:29 05/19/01
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On May 19, 2001 at 20:22:20, Chris King wrote:
>On May 19, 2001 at 14:54:37, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On May 19, 2001 at 14:38:04, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>On May 19, 2001 at 04:36:51, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>The FREE TEXT MODE version of Chess Tiger 14.1 for Palm is now available at
>>>>www.chesstiger.com
>>>>
>>>>Complains about the lack of a graphic chessboard will be ignored! :)
>>>>
>>>>Feedback (especially if it is positive) is welcome.
>>>>
>>>>Enjoy! :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks, very cool. It's been a lot of fun playing with CT for Palm. The
>>>text-mode interface works really well. And I actually read the manual (unusual
>>>for me), and tested the commands. Nice epd and pgn handling.
>>>
>>>On my Visor Prism (33mhz), I get 337 nps. Does that sound right? Seems a tad
>>>lower than I would have expected.
>>
>>
>>I get 414 NPS on my Palm IIIx. OK, I have overclocked it to 26MHz (from 16) and
>>removed the wait-states.
>
>
>I didn't realize Palms are so slow, according to these figures a Palm IIIx,
>overclocked at 26 mhz, is about 670 times slower than an Athlon 1 ghz.
>Obviously evaluation functions are different but I believe that my mid eighties
>Novag Constellation runs at approx 1,000 NPS on a 2mhz 6502 processor.
>Of course this means that your program must be very good to give a strong game
>on such a slow machine.
>
>Chris
That's the point in porting Tiger to the Palm.
If you just take some free source code available out there (GnuChess, TSCP,
Crafty,...) AND if you manage to stuff it in the small memory requirements of
the PalmOS system, you'll get a really WEAK engine.
Only a strong commercial chess engine can make a decent opponent on a Palm.
Christophe
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