Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 22:17:55 07/02/02
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On July 03, 2002 at 01:14:55, Frank Schneider wrote: >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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