Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 11:51:29 02/13/02
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On February 12, 2002 at 16:36:13, Roy Eassa wrote: >On February 12, 2002 at 14:05:33, Ian Osgood wrote: > >>Don't. >> >>:) > > >Ian, > >I noticed from your profile that you had some involvement with a chess program >for the Newton called Deep Green. Is this program still available? Is/was it >any good? Is there a web site, etc.? > >Thank in advance! Joachim Bondo use to have a web site for all his Newton wares, but my link appears to be stale. Try here instead: http://pdacentral.planetmirror.com/newton/preview/33130.html At the time of its release (1998?), Deep Green was the strongest program you could get on a PDA, because the MessagePad 2000 was the first PDA to use the 160MHz StrongARM. The engine was primitive but fast (based on SCP, same as PocketChess). Any program on current fast PocketPC's and professional programs on Palms (ChessGenius, Tiger) are now stronger than Deep Green on an MP 2000. I autoplayed Deep Green on FICS as NewtonChess. It maintained an 1800 blitz rating. Ian PS. by my earlier terse reply I meant that .NET is as suitable for chess as java is (not very). C or other machine code optimizable languages are better than interpreted languages for small processor bound applications such as chess programs.
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