Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:53:15 06/14/02
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On June 14, 2002 at 12:26:35, Adam Oellermann wrote:
>I've recently got a Palm M125. A colleague who works for Microsoft was testing
>me about getting a "toy", and was surprised to learn that it could play chess.
>He was even more surprised when it nuked Chess (in the MS PocketPC Entertainment
>Pack) as follows. I just grinned and he muttered about getting one of their
>techies to check his brand-new iPAQ over.
As if any of MS's chess programs was ever a reference. :-) Last one I saw was
the one that came with Windows and it was incredibly weak.
Albert
>
>He'd never heard of Chess Tiger, but has played against my engine (Blikskottel)
>a few times. I told him that Tiger on the PC is a little stronger than
>Blikskottel (which is true enough if 700-800 Elo points is "a little"). Anyway,
>this demonstration, combined with a comparison in battery life (2hrs for his
>iPAQ, 2 months for my Palm!) has, well, muddied his thinking!
>
>[Event "2002.06.14 15:21"]
>[Site "Microsoft Campus, Reading, UK"]
>[Date "2002.06.14"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Chess Tiger"]
>[Black "PocketPC Chess (Microsoft)"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 Be7
>8. O-O-O O-O 9. Bc4 b5 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. Bb3 Nd7 12. Rhe1 Bxd4
>13. Qxd4 Qg5+ 14. Re3 Nc5 15. g3 Nxb3+ 16. axb3 Rd8 17. f4 Qe7 18. Red3 Rb8
>19. Qc5 b4 20. Rxd6 Rxd6 21. Qxd6 Qxd6 22. Rxd6 Bb7 23. Na2 a5 24. e5 Rc8
>25. c4 Kf8 26. Rb6 Be4 27. Rb5 Ra8 28. Kd2 Ke7 29. Ke3 Bc6 30. Rb6 Kd7
>31. Kd4 f6 32. exf6 gxf6 33. Nc1 Rd8 34. Ra6 Ra8 35. Rxa8 Bxa8 36. Kc5 Bf3
>37. Kb5 Kd6 38. Kxa5 Kc5 39. Nd3+ Kd4 40. Ne1 Bc6 41. Nc2+ Kc5 42. Nxb4 Be4
>43. Na6+ Kd4 44. Nc7 Bf5 45. Nb5+ Kc5 46. b4+ Kxc4 47. Nd6+ Kd5
>48. Nxf5 exf5 49. b5 Kd6 50. Ka6 Ke7 51. b6 Kd8 52. Ka7 Ke8 53. b7 1-0
>
>There didn't seem much point in continuing.
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