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Subject: Re: Pocket Versions of Amateur Chess Programs Needed?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 08:34:26 06/16/02

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On June 16, 2002 at 10:11:10, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>On June 16, 2002 at 05:23:25, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2002 at 10:38:33, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>It is noteworthy that the Fritz programmers saw fit to produce a pocket version
>>>of their larger Fritz program [engine + GUI].  Whatever it was that motivated
>>>those programmers to do that perhaps ought to apply to the amateur chess
>>>programs and programmers too.
>>
>>A small correction. Pocket Fritz contains the Shredder engine, not the Fritz
>>engine.
>
>Wow!  That implies that "the Fritz people" had no faith at all in their Fritz
>engine when used in handhelds.

The reason could just be that an engine written in x86 assembly takes too much
effort to convert to a handheld.

>One might speculate that Fritz might not even
>work at all on a handheld?

I'm quite sure about that.

Tony

>
>Bob D.
>
>>
>>Tony
>>
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