Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 07:43:32 09/03/02
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On September 03, 2002 at 00:37:32, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Still i think free advertising doesn't belong in this forum. Marc
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