Author: Pham Hong Nguyen
Date: 21:59:45 06/16/02
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On June 16, 2002 at 12:30:59, Christophe Theron wrote: >On June 16, 2002 at 01:21:15, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote: > >>>Chess Tiger for Palm and Chess Tiger for PC share the same engine code. >> >>I think Chess Tiger is one of good and lucky engines to move into Palm because >>of nature of your design. Many other engines will find so many difficulties. For >>example, some have to rewrite their assembly codes or remove them. Cache for >>handhelds is also different from PC (so many optimizations based on cache will >>not work). Some advantages of bitboard design will be lose comparing with other >>designs. > > >Actually the base engine for Chess Tiger for Palm was the PC version 12.0. Curious questions: is it bitboard version or not? In general, what full depth it could reach for fast game (say 10 min/game, in Palm)? Thanks. > >I had to change some basic data structures in it so it worked better on the Palm >(notably the move data structure was on 32 bits, I changed it to 16 bits). But >the changes has been good for the PC version as well: the PC version ran faster >after the changes designed for the Palm. > > > > >>One of terrible things I have seen that poor programs for handheld may be >>undersearch (search depths are so shallow for fast games, say 3-5 depths) and >>may make many fatal mistakes on tactics. > > >That's also what makes it challenging! > > > > Christophe
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