Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 08:08:09 04/07/02
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On April 07, 2002 at 09:05:29, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 07, 2002 at 07:02:09, Alain Lyrette wrote: > >> >>On April 07, 2002 at 06:02:47, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On April 07, 2002 at 05:55:38, stuart taylor wrote: >>> >>>>This indicates very strongly that Genius on ipac is best thing available by way >>>>of handheld. >>>>S.Taylor >>> >>>No >>>It indicates nothing because the pam ran only with 28 mhz. >>> >>>Uri >>28 or 54mhz is irrelevant.As of now even if you push a palm to it's pathetic >>limits,it's no match for an ipaq running at 206 mhz.Chess Tiger is a much better >>program than Genius and yet,in a match,it will lose badly if Genius runs on the >>strongarm. > >I suspect that it depends on the time control and on tournament time >control(120/40) palm tiget may win thanks to a better branching factor. > >If you play only blitz then faster harware may be more important. > >Uri A good analogy would be Tiger in the skin of a very talented lightweight boxer...great skills,smart and with stamina to spare,against a so-so heavyweight.Sure for 1 or 2 round the lightweight can evade the punch of the bigger boxer thanks to his superior skills(better branch factor) but in the long run...BAM!This lightweight WOULD have a chance against a so-so MIDDLEWEIGHT.Come on here.....we're talking about a 4-8x speed difference crunching positions.On the CHESSGENIUS website they are talking about a 300(THREE HUNDREDS!) ELO difference between the 2 versions(palm and pcpocket).Let say that Chesstiger is about 100 elo better than Genius AT THE SAME SPEED..so we have our answer.Who are we trying to kid here?.....Alain
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