Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 09:24:20 04/07/02
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On April 07, 2002 at 11:58:52, Uri Blass wrote: >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. > >UrOn the first point you may be right.Let say 150.I disagree on the second.I predict that Chesstiger will be AT LEAST 200 elo stronger on a pocketpc platform than it is with present-day palms.
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