Author: Mike S.
Date: 22:29:11 05/24/01
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On May 24, 2001 at 22:42:28, Christophe Theron wrote: >(...) >>On May 24, 2001 at 22:05:42, william penn wrote: >> >>>i hear that palm tiger beat chess genius, i thought this was a hand held stand >>>alone, if so it must be much stronger than the sapphire which i thought was the >>>strongest standalone computer available. (...) >This is mostly right, Michael, but let me add some infos: > >Chess Tiger for Palm is COMPLETE port of Chess Tiger 14.1 (which is an evolution >of the Chess Tiger 14 program currently sold by Shröder BV under the name >Rebel-Tiger, by ChessBase under the name Chess Tiger, and by Convekta in their >ChessAssistant 6.0 product). > >The Chess Tiger engine running in the Palm has ALL the knowledge and algorithms >of Chess Tiger 14.1 for PC, everything but the endgame tablebases (for obvious >reasons). > >(...) I think it would be interesting to see if Palm Tiger is able to win a longer match against the NOVAG Sapphire II (I would expect that, but the Sapphire has proven superior so far against other handhelds or travel computers, according to info I have read from various sources). I wouldn't be surprised if the result would be quite narrow though... I think the Sapphire II could act as a kind of basic performance test for Palm chess programs, in other words, they should beat it more or less clearly to be competitive IMO, in terms of strength (in terms of functionality, the Palm is certainly superior). A Pocket PC, or Windows CE program running at 100...200 MHz just must beat the Sapphire I think... at least if it is somewhat state of the art. Regards, M.Scheidl
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