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Subject: Re: Pocket ChessPartner 0.4 beta released

Author: Kevin Stafford

Date: 15:08:33 10/18/01

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While this engine does seem to play chess well enough, what features will chess
partner bring to the pocket pc that we can't get with genius/fritz/eventually
tiger? I've already purchased genius and fritz (genius because it was cheap and
I could get it online, so I'd have a chess program for my new IPAQ, fritz
because of the added features..), and will probably get tiger because I like the
playing style, but why your program? I'm not trying to be overly harsh or
anything, but the pocket pc already has chess _playing_ programs covered pretty
well. What I'd like to see is a program with features the others don't have.
Especially if the engine isn't really that unique.

One of the main things I use my IPAQ for is so that I can study from chess books
without having to use a set. I export a set of games from chess assistant into
pgn, and move them onto my ipaq. I can then play through the games easily. It
would be a major selling point for me if your program somehow facilitated this
process better than the other programs. I don't have pocket fritz yet, but
genius doesn't allow me to enter variations, and this would be a very convenient
feature. Perhaps more database related features would be useful too. I guess I'm
simply asking what features do you plan on adding to your program that will make
someone like me want to purchase it?

-Kevin



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