Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:58:52 04/07/02
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On April 07, 2002 at 11:08:09, Alain Lyrette wrote: > >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 1)I guess that the difference between palm tiger and palm genius at 120/40 is more than 100 elo. 2)I guess that 4-8 times speed advantage is translated to 150-200 elo and not 300 elo. Uri
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