Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:37:32 09/02/02
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On September 03, 2002 at 00:10:57, Georg Langrath wrote:
>I like chess on Palm. The picture is sharp enough even on monochrome. You will
>be surprised when you see it first time. I can imagine that color display is
>even better, but I haven’t tried it. Nothing that I feel as a must have.
>
>Pocketchess for Palm is weak in a boring way. See example in message below.
>
>Chess Genius for Palm is strong enough for 99.9 of us. But it lacks some
>important features. You have to go into the menu every time you want to go back
>and forth e.g.
>
>Chesstiger for Palm is the strongest. It has very comfortable menus beside the
>board with easy symbols. You can also easy change to big board covering all the
>display. It is easy to change board size with a menu button symbol that always
>is there on Palm itself. You have six boards with different sizes, and
>possibilities and info.
>
>It has 8 nice trainer levels that shall imitate ELO 1000 to 1800 Fide ratings.
>Accuracy is good enough for training. Here you can see roughly where you stand.
>
>Another good feature is that you can decide when the device shall shut off from
>the program itself. In Palm max is three minutes. That isn’t enough for chess
>playing and for analyzes. In Chesstiger max is 999 minutes.
>
>The only thing I miss is the possibility to play engine-engine. Can be good for
>seeing how Tiger handles a situation.
>
>I am a fan of this program. I really can recommend it of all my heart. And it
>really has a low price.
>
>Georg
Thanks Georg.
If you try it on a color device, I swear you will dump your monochrome Palm
immediately.
See the color screenshots at http://www.chesstiger.com and compare them with the
monochrome screenshots.
...Mmh... Maybe you should not look at them after all. Maybe it's better for the
health of your monochrome unit... ;-)
Christophe
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