Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:31:02 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 15:24:34, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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 Well, thankfully, a GameBoy Advance version is due to be released in about 2-3 months. jm
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