Author: stuart taylor
Date: 05:08:55 09/02/01
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On September 01, 2001 at 15:55:00, Christophe Theron wrote: >On September 01, 2001 at 12:39:39, Steve Maughan wrote: > >>I’ve been playing around with Pocket Fritz for the last couple of days. The >>features are certainly great but IMO the playing strength is not definitely any >>better than Genius for the Pocket PC. >> >>Here is a selection of test position that I dug out from the early 90s. I >>realise that test positions are not the best way of determining the superior >>player but since I don’t have two iPAQs I can’t play them against each other. >>Of the seven positions Genius solves five quicker. I also tested Gambit Tiger 2 >>on the positions using my 1.5 GHz P4 – each position was solved in 1 second or >>less! > > > >I have tried these positions with Chess Tiger for Palm (Gambit style) on a >device that gets a TigerMark of 1.35 (some devices can reach a TigerMark of 2) >and here are the results: > > > > >>[d]8/1p1k1p2/p2PbPp1/P1P1K1Pn/1P5R/8/8/8 w - - >>b5 or Rxh5: Pocket Fritz 35 sec, Genius 2 min 44 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 352s (5mn 52s). > >More hash tables would help! > > > >>[d]8/5p2/pk2p3/4P2p/2b1pP1P/P3P2B/8/7K w - - >>Bg4: Pocket Fritz 38 sec, Genius 4 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 264s (4mn 24s). > >More hash tables would help! > > > >>[d]8/6k1/P5r1/8/8/Kp5R/8/8 w - - >>Rg3: Pocket Fritz 6 sec, Genius 8 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 26s. > > > >>[d]r1b1k2r/2q2p2/p1Np1P1b/3Pn2p/1p6/4Q3/PPP4P/1K1R1BR1 w kq – >>Qxh6: Pocket Fritz 5 min 38 sec, Genius 16 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 24s. > > > >>[d]r3qr1k/pp3pbp/2pn4/7Q/3pP3/2NB3P/PPP3P1/R4RK1 w - - >>Rf6 (famous Fischer combination): Pocket Fritz 4 min 0 sec, Genius 6 min 42 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 197s (3mn 17s). > > > >>[d]r3rbk1/p1qbpp2/1p1p2p1/3P3p/3BB2P/2P2QP1/PP3P2/R3R1K1 w - - >>Bxg6: Pocket Fritz 4 min 53 sec, Genius 1 min 4 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 317s (5mn 17s). > > > >>[d]5r1k/1nqr1pp1/p2Np2p/1p2P3/7Q/P1P4R/1P4PP/5RK1 w - - >>Rf6: Pocket Fritz 1 min 32 sec, Genius 1 min 27 sec > > >Chess Tiger for Palm: 360s (6mn). > > > > >Now some statistics: > >I have computed for each position the ratio between Tiger's solution time and >the average solution time of Fritz and Genius. > >Pos Ratio >01 3.54 >02 12.57 >03 3.71 >04 0.14 >05 0.61 >06 1.78 >07 4.02 > > >The average ratio is 3.77. > >That means that on these positions Chess Tiger for Palm is only 3.77 times >slower than the average of Fritz and Genius running on a processor 10 times >faster! > >That gives me hopes for my PocketPC version of Chess Tiger! :) > > > > Christophe Yes! I was wondering what you were trying to prove until I saw the bottom line. So! What then is a pocket computer? S.Taylor
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