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Subject: Re: Pocket Frirtz wins one against a 750 MHz rival!

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 00:14:35 09/04/01

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On September 03, 2001 at 12:07:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 03, 2001 at 11:59:09, Adam Oellermann wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2001 at 06:37:46, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>
>>>For those that are interested, here is Pocket Fritz's first victory against
>>>Fritz 2.  The French is probably the type of opening that Pocket Fritz is going
>>>to do well against, as it can show its supperior positional play.  In this game
>>>PF managed to get an advantage early on but this fizzled away.  The game was a
>>>draw only for Fritz 2 to underestimate the power of a passed pawn.  An
>>>impressive victory in the light of Fritz 2's speed advantage (probably ~ x 30).
>>
>>x30? I thought the iPAQs run at 206MHz - maybe not as good pipelining etc as the
>>PIII, but a factor of 30 seems a bit big... Do you have some NPS numbers?
>>
>>- Adam
>
>There seem to be a big factor of at least 20.
>
>I do not have some nps number but I found that shredder5.32 on My p200MMX
>is at least 5 times faster than pocket shredder in solving test positions.
>
>At least 5 times faster means that 5 times faster is the best case out of 7 test
>positions.
>
>I guess it means that p200MMX is 6 or 7 times faster than pocket PC for shredder
>
>I read that for genius it is only 4 times faster so I guess that pocket Genius
>and not pocket Fritz is the best program for pocket pc and it may be changed if
>pocket tiger comes to the market.
>
>Uri

Looks like not much work has been done in optimising Shredder for the iPAQ. I'm
a bit disappointed, but I guess it's just a first release. I would imagine that
Pocket Genius would clobber Pocket Fritz with that kind of difference...

Cheers
Adam



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