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Subject: Re: Strength of Novag Diamond

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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