Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 00:55:12 05/23/01
After a fast brows at Chessbase website I found the following interesting information. It looks like SMK and Chessbase will be the first to enter the Pocket PC ( not to be confused with Palm..) market with a serious chessprogram. Perhaps it will be possible to have a match between Pocket Tiger and Pocket Schredder via IR or Bluethooth serial connection in a few months? Clipped from ChessBase site: "Pocket Fritz This is the name for the first strong chess program to run on pocket PCs running the operating system Windows CE. Usually these palm-sized computers have processors running at 100 to 200 MHz and 32 MB of memory, which is sufficient to support a seriously strong chess program. Chess is also a excellent application for these devices. It is very easy to whip a pocket PC out of your pocket and play a quick blitz game against it in a plan or train. You can also use it for chess training and solve tactical problems or play through games with the program as your analytical partner. Naturally you should not take Pocket Fritz to your tournaments, where you might be tempted to surreptitiously consult your tiny partner during the games. Pocket PCs from Compaq, HP and Casio On June 30 Stefan Meyer-Kahlen will put his Pocket Fritz program to a severe test in two matches against players from the top ten of the world rankings. GMs Michael Adams und Peter Leko will play rapid chess games against the tiny computers - a nice change of pace from last year's battles against the refrigerator-sized high-performance servers at the Frankfurt Chess Classics. But the GMs cannot be too complacent. Pocket Fritz has the entire chess knowledge of Shredder 5.32 at its disposal and is sure to be a tough opponent to beat. The program will be available in July and cost DM 99.90. You will need a pocket PC like Compaq's iPAC, Casio's Cassiopeia or the HP Jornada running Windows CE 3.0. " Torstein
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