Author: Lex Loep
Date: 22:20:14 10/18/01
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On October 18, 2001 at 18:08:33, Kevin Stafford wrote: >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. Compared to the PC platform there are less than a handfull of programs for the PDA's. What I have seen so far is very basic so there is plenty of room for competition. As the current version is only at 0.4 beta much more can be expected. > >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? > Nothing is set in concrete but a few points of which the first is planned for the next beta. - Better PGN support (including variations) - Integration with it's bigger brother to make it easy to tranfer games etc. - Game play through Infrared. - Access to webservices like the Nalimov tablebase server. Of course I am open to suggestion. Lex >-Kevin
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