Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 01:29:36 05/25/01
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On May 25, 2001 at 01:29:11, Mike S. wrote:
>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 really don't know and I would really like to know.
The Sapphire II is rated 2012 by the SSDF (that means 2112 in the previous
versions of the list, which is more accurate for lower ratings).
So normally Tiger for Palm should be able to at least equal the Sapphire.
>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).
There are not many chess programs which are going to be able to pass the test!
:)
>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.
Clearly. The Sapphire should be wiped away by a decent chess program running on
StrongARM at 100 or even 200MHz.
Christophe
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