Author: stuart taylor
Date: 10:15:13 07/02/02
Stefen Meyer Kahlen has different views to Christophe Theron, it would seem. I read it now in the newsletter of "Digital chess news". He says that the pocket computers will be dominating pocket chess for quite some time. BUT Christophe says opposite. He says that soon Palm will be equal with Pocket comp running at 400Mhz. And also that some other details may well make Palm even quicker per. same Mhz. than PC. So is one of them wrong? Kahlen also claims that Pocket Fritz is the strongest out for the pocket platform, and that it is between Shredder 5.6 and 6.0. But Tiger is much better than Tiger 14 which is stronger than Shredder. So how come Kahlen is right? The only explanation I can think of is that Tiger isn't made at all for Pocket Computer yet, so the Mhz. are sufficiently less for Tiger which is what ever the Palm offers. But that's not really the program. When asked about programs not improving so greatly from version to version, he claims that in the last few years the improvement rate is very fast. But that isn't always so in my observation, and when it is, it looks to me that it can take a year or two or three to see a new upgrade of a program which doesn't necesarily show much improvements of evaluation in very many positions, and sometimes worse. It is only a very slow creeping upward trend. Even today, two of my past heroes Genius 3 and Hiarcs 6 can often beat the top programs on equal hardware. they are about 75% as strong, I believe. S.Taylor
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