Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:46:07 09/26/02
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On September 26, 2002 at 12:30:51, Christophe Theron wrote: >On September 26, 2002 at 03:26:05, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On September 25, 2002 at 22:15:56, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On September 25, 2002 at 07:38:51, Daniel Clausen wrote: >>> >>>>Could you at least mark posts like these as OT? (it seems to be hopeless to ask >>>>to not post these at all abviously ;) >>>> >>>>Sargon >>> >>> >>> >>>I find it very much on topic, but is it just me? >>> >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>Fine, then I withdraw my request. :) >> >>Sargon > > > >I must add that the reason I find it on topic is because the Palms are now going >to be a serious if not the ultimate competition to the high end dedicated chess >computers (who have almost disappeared already). > >Take a PalmOS 5 device running somewhere between 175 and 400MHz. There is NO >dedicated chess computer that can compete. > >I acknowledge that the price is not going to be cheap at first (I expect them to >sell at $500). However wait for a year and see the prices reaching $200 to $300. > >Add $20 to equip them with Chess Tiger for Palm, and you get the ultimate pocket >chess computer for all chess players including strong masters: a 2400 to 2500 >elo chess program with 3Mb of hash tables and 10Mb of opening book with the >ability to exchange games with your PC. > Is this a promise that you will soon produce a native version of Chess Tiger for the new CPU that can access a large hash table, include a much larger opening book, and continue to sell it for $20? ;-)
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