Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:00:11 06/09/02
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Just FYI, in my experience (and having read about others' experiences), Chess Tiger for Palm is clearly stronger than Chess Genius for Palm. Also, any of the top chess programs (Pocket Fritz, Genius, or Pocket GM) running on a 206 MHz Pocket PC is stronger than ANY chess program running on today's 33-54 MHz Palms. On June 09, 2002 at 09:48:43, Mike Byrne wrote: >On June 07, 2002 at 20:20:28, martin fierz wrote: > >>aloha! >> >>i've been thinking about porting my checkers program to some mobile platform. i >>was just wondering which... can someone tell me what is more popular at the >>moment (and for the gurus: how about the near future?), palm or pocket PC? or >>anything else? also, am i right in the assumption that on the palm you have much >>less resources (ram, cpu power)? >> >>cheers >> martin > >last August, I was able to get b&w pocket pc for ~$150 = that model was >discontinued - and all color 206 Mhz Pocket pc go for about at least $300-350+. > >you now get a palm for <$100 , run a program such as Afterburner to clock it >somewhere between 28-32 Mhz and get a either Genius or Chess Tiger ...Tiger may >be slightly stronger - but it's not that much and I'm not 100% positive -- I >think most people assume it's stronger - I'm starting a Game/30 round robin >between Palm Tiger, Palm Genius, Saphire II, Mehpisto Genius 68030 and Kasparov >2100, Pocket Fritz (Shredder) and Pocket Genius -- Pocket Genius may be the >strongest -- it's a more advanced program than the Palm Genius. Pocket Fritz >Genius should finish 1-2 as they clearly have the fastest hardware. > >IMO, I think the Palm meets the general (Non chess players && Non wireless) user >needs the best - chess players will like the pocket PC, because it is 10-20x >faster than than than Palm. > >Also remember new Palms (MUCH FASTER!) Palm will be coming out in 6 months - and >the Pocket PC will be running at 400 Mhz soon - so I wouldn't spend a lot of >money right now on either one - Best Buy is a cheap Palm, with Afterburner and >either Chess Tiger or Chess Genius - I would favor Tiger over Genius because it >does have more time settings that I like (fischer clock, tournament settings etc >- the Genius program is limited to Game in xx or average xx seconds per move) - >the Genius program does have a nifty IR capability that allows you to play >someone else that also has a Palm and Genius. Genius gets very high marks for >simplicity and meeting the Palm programming standard. > >Ah what the heck - get BOTH - we need to keep these Chess Programmers >finanically MOTIVATED!
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