Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:33:28 09/27/02
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On September 27, 2002 at 10:18:44, Alastair Scott wrote: >On September 27, 2002 at 08:48:22, Travers Waker wrote: > >>Someone's working on a free, open source PalmOS chess program using the GNU >>Chess 2 engine. Check out: >> >>http://www.geocities.com/sonaltessefr/ >>http://www.freewarepalm.com/games/openchess.shtml >>http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=77903420020913050719&prodID=44272 >> >>The sole reviewer on freewarepalm claims that OpenChess is playing at a strength >>of between 1850 and 2000, but doesn't say how he arrived at this opinion. Maybe >>someone from this forum would like to test it? > >As a 2100 player I've not tested it (explicitly), but that seems a fair guess on >my PalmOS machine (T675 at 66MHz). It's not near the Tigers and Geniuses, but >it's not idiotic either! > >I might have a go at one of the test suites, although entering the positions'll >be a tedious process ... > >Alastair My rating is just under 2000 USCF, and I've played this thing many games on my Sony Clie, overclocked to 42 MHz. I win every game unless I make a gross blunder (this would not be true against a true 1850+), so I would estimate it at more like 1600-1750 on my hardware. At times it seems under 1500, but at other times it seems ~2000. But overall I'd say 1600-1750 -- just enough to keep me very alert or else. It has a decent opening book, nice hi-res color pieces, plays much better than the REALLY weak programs, takes up relatively little RAM (72k), and is FREE (with source code), so I definitely recommend it! [It hasn't implemented "save" yet and there is no "forward a move" function AFAIK, so if you want to write down the moves of the game after the fact, you have to do so by going backward through the game. In doing so once, I discovered a bug: it does not put back a pawn captured E.P. Pretty funny when you go all the way back to the starting position and a pawn is missing!]
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