Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 14:27:06 02/13/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 14:51:29, Ian Osgood wrote: >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. Interpreted? As far as I understand .NET is covering the C++ environment and replacing Microsofts current C/C++ version 6. Peter
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