Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 18:45:04 12/05/01
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On December 05, 2001 at 08:36:39, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On December 05, 2001 at 05:13:24, Dr. Franklin wrote: > >>On December 04, 2001 at 22:52:48, Mike S. wrote: >> >>>On December 04, 2001 at 22:15:07, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>(...) >>>>Mike can you match these computers that you mentioned such as the Sapphire >>>>(First version) and Mephisto Rics if you still have them against Chess Tiger >>>>14.6 for palm (The registered verion NOT the Weak Demo) And let us know of your >>>>home match result. Preferably game in 30 Minutes per side at a minimum. >>> >>>Unfortunately not, because I don't have a Palm (nor a Pocket PC). >>> >>>I'm not considering to buy one, just for chess. I have a little PDA, with >>>calculator and phone book... I never ever use it though. It's price was ~ 14 $ >>>IIRC. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Mike Scheidl >> >> >> I used to own the saphire 1 some years back, I guarentee it is much stronger >>then palm pilot, I would estimate it's uscf rating at about 2280 > >The Novag Saphhire 1 and the Novag Turquoise have the same program, but I am >not sure if they share the same Rics processor. If they do there is no need >to test it against a Palm with 33 MHz since I have done several tests against >them and my Handspring have won about 55% of the games at 30 minutes per side. >The only reason that I asked was to compare against my own test and to have more >DATA for comparison reason. PS: I just found out that the Sapphire 1 and the Novag Turquoise share the same (H8 26.6 MHz RICC-Style procesor with a 32K Byte program), but the Sappire II has a little more power with an (Advanced H8 RISC-style processor running at 32 Mhz with 160k program memory and 129K RAM area). Pichard.
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