Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 06:52:36 09/05/02
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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. > A small correction regarding Chess Genius for Palm. You can use the up/down hardware buttons to move backward/forward through the moves (as you can with Chess Tiger for Palm). >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
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