Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:36:55 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.
As far as I know Richard Lang did not want to enter ChessGenius. So without
support from the programmer Thorsten decided to not include it in the
tournament.
>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.
Publicity?
Feel free to write a strong chess program for PDAs and to let it enter the
tournament.
Then let's see how you feel when somebody says that the tournament is just a
publicity for your program.
Christophe
> 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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