Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 22:14:55 07/02/02
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On July 02, 2002 at 13:15:13, stuart taylor wrote: >Stefen Meyer Kahlen has different views to Christophe Theron, it would seem. >I read it now in the newsletter of "Digital chess news". Hi, could you give a link to the newsletter? Is it www.digichess.gr? Thanks, Frank >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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