Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:43:04 05/31/01
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On May 31, 2001 at 02:37:05, ERIQ wrote:
>After looking at his latest list I couldn't help but think that their is no way
>that a comp could get a 2600+ fide rating running on a pentium pro 300 mhz.
>
>Also I happened to notice that the highest three standalones are not sold here
>in the us. anymore and that in fact the highest was from 1995. I also noticed
>that they ran on 68020-68030 but now we have much faster chip like g3-g4 I don't
>know much but wouldn't it be a breeze to port the programs over to g4's.
>
> Is this to say that we are going backward in strength for standalones. I had
>thought that present tech. should be much faster and cheaper.
>
>I have no idea what to make of this.
Basically the dedicated chess computers market is dead. There is money to make
only on very cheap, small, dedicated chess computers, so don't expect an elo
above 1700 from these.
This market is dead because a PC is cheap enough and fast enough that there is
no point in commercializing a dedicated computer that will be as expensive, not
stronger and not evolutive. Some people will buy it, but not enough people to
make enough money from it.
The market is dead a second time since you can find handheld computers with good
chess programs on them (mainly PalmOS compatible computers).
So yes, standalone chess computers are going in the down direction from a
strength point of view.
Christophe
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