Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:30:53 09/03/02
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On September 03, 2002 at 03:52:43, Alastair Scott wrote:
>On September 02, 2002 at 21:25:28, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Chess Tiger for Palm plays the right moves even at the lowest level and quickly
>>mates.
>>
>>Even for the weak players I think that PocketChess is inadequate. If your
>>professor is not able to show you how to win in this position, what do you
>>seriously expect to learn from him?
>>
>>Have you tried to set up a KBN vs K or KBB vs K position with PocketChess and
>>see what happens? What do you think a beginner will learn if PocketChess is not
>>able to show how to mate this kind of endings?
>
>A quick look on Google is annoying; there's a _vast_ number of reviews by people
>who say things like 'I'm no Kasparov but ...' and then praise PocketChess to the
>skies. The incompetence of the reviewers is more dangerous than the
>incompetence of the program =/
>
>I also note the relative number of downloads:
>
>PalmGear
>
>212,582 PocketChess
>168,617 Genius
>N/A Tiger
>
>Handango
>
>83,473 Tiger
>46,747 PocketChess
>36,483 Genius
>
>The second is much more like it, although why PocketChess is above, never mind
>anywhere near, Genius is annoying.
One thing I know is that the statistics from PalmGear cannot be trusted. They
are cheating the numbers. So you cannot make real comparisons.
Also, PocketChess was free 2 or 3 years ago, and the PalmGear numbers are
counting the downloads of the very old free version of PocketChess. I think in
1999 they had already 150K downloads of the free version. So 60K or so downloads
since then does not look that good if you think about it.
Palmgear does not pay the developpers of applications, which is why I have
removed Chess Tiger from PalmGear. They owe me several months of sales, and it
seems I'm never going to get my money.
They told me: "you'll be paid if you don't remove your application from our
site". I answered "obey to the terms of your own contract and send me my money
and Chess Tiger will be back on Palmgear", and I removed the product from their
online store.
I guess they are going bankrupt or something like that. I don't care about them
anymore anyway.
Christophe
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