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Subject: Re: BELCT - PDA Tournament??

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 09:33:20 10/05/01

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On October 05, 2001 at 05:28:41, Steve Maughan wrote:

>What happened in the PDA tournament?
>
>Steve

From Rebel's site, here are the participants:

Participants in the PDA/Pocket-PC-Tournament

Program           Class             Country        Programmer
1.Pocket Fritz    Pocket-PC         Germany        Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
2.Gambit-Tiger    Palm              Guadeloupe     Christophe Theron
3.Pocket Chess    Palm              USA            Scott Ludwig
4.Purple Chess    Palm              Great Britain       ?

Note the absence of ChessGenius, which is available for both Palm and PocketPC.
The PDA tournament is a joke: of course PocketFritz is going to win (at least,
assuming they use a 200 MHz StrongARM PocketPC), and both Pocket and Purple
Chess are amateur compared to Tiger.  This section, and the "playoff" with the
BELCT winner, is merely a publicity stunt for Pocket Fritz and PalmTiger.  Heck
if I'd known about this, I would have entered PocketCrafty to give PocketFritz
*some* competition.

What *would* be nice?  A dedicated computer section, also open to PDA's.  I
haven't seen enough matchups between the strongest dedicated computers (which
haven't developed much since the advent of the cheap PC & chess program combo)
and the new crop of PDA programs.  With faster processors, modern programs, and
enough memory for hash
 tables; I would expect the PDA's to win.

Ian  (kinda cranky this morning)




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