Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:57:44 04/11/02
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On April 11, 2002 at 13:46:35, Frank Schneider wrote: >On April 11, 2002 at 13:36:20, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 11, 2002 at 12:57:10, Frank Schneider wrote: >> >>>On April 10, 2002 at 16:56:49, Art Basham wrote: >>> >>>>White plays Rxf7...! >>>> >>>>[D]5rk1/1p3ppp/1p6/p1q1PR2/2B1b3/1PP5/6PP/3Q3K w - - >>>> >>>>Novag Amber takes 60 sec. (7 ply)... >>>> >>>>Novag Scorpio ....40 sec. >>>> >>>>Fidelity Mach3 takes 5 min. 32 sec. >>>> >>>>Travel Champion ...4 min. 30 sec. >>> >>>PocketGrandmaster on an iPAQ needs 27sec. >>> >>>Frank >> >> >>That's a surprise because Chess Genius, also on an iPAQ, needs at most 1 second >>to see both the move and that it wins. > > >That's pretty quick! >But I wonder why Chess Genius needed more than 3:50 (230sec) on the 41MHz Palm, >which is never 200 times slower than an iPAQ. > I was wondering that too. Could it be because the version of (the engine of) Chess Genius that runs on the Palm was last updated in 1987? I don't know for sure, but I suspect the one running on the iPAQ is a lot newer than that.
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