Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:24:34 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 15:10:08, John Merlino wrote: >On April 30, 2002 at 11:23:53, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>Since People out there seem to like older programs for aesthetic reasons, I've >>decided to mention Battle Chess for Nintendo and ChessMaster for Game >>Gear/GameBoy. I don't know how these compare to their PC counterparts other than >>the obvious Speed Gap but maybe someone can shed some light on what versions are >>they. Is ChessMaster for Gameboy the same as chessmaster 2000 or some other >>chessmaster? What about the gamegear chessmaster which came out much much >>earlier? What of Battle Chess? It seems to take around 2-3 minutes on level 4 >>and while it is no match for Fritz, it does appear to be making 3ply searches. I >>figure this because the errors in games i played against it, and that fritz 7 >>set to fixed depth starts to disagree alot from 3ply and up. > >I'm not sure which engine is in the Chessmaster GB version (the manual does not >say and I don't have a GB to test it on), but I would guess that, even on the >strongest (i.e. the longest) setting, it doesn't play much above 1600, if at >all. > >jm IMHO, CM for gameboy would be absolutely great, unfortunately you should go through a painful setup before playing (that cannot easily saved). That kills the whole purpose for kids... like me :-) painful for kids that they do not know exactly what to choose. Regards, Miguel
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