Author: Peter Berger
Date: 13:08:28 10/05/01
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On October 05, 2001 at 12:33:20, Ian Osgood wrote: >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) Hello Ian, your post doesn't sound cranky at all. Your criticism is justified. The PDA tournament sounded like a funny idea but definitely was of minor interest to the organizers this year. One reason is the very little interest in the event by chessprogrammers working in this field, the other one that even the users don't seem to be too involved yet. This tournament was supposed to be one of the support events like the sightseeing in Berlin or the social event. People like Steve and you are ahead of time IMHO. I agree that a play-off between the winners of both tournaments would have been a joke - so it didn't happen. Regards, pete
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