Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 19:52:39 11/12/02
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On November 12, 2002 at 21:56:26, D Ridge wrote: >Greetings All, > >I'm very interested in trying out this new CM for Palm but I've heard reports of >it being so buggy that is crashes your Palm and does cold starts!!!! > >Any first hand experience out there? > >Thanks > >David Yes, you will have that plus more. So far support is non-existent. I'm putting a claim to get my $20 back. Negatives: No PGN Support. No FEN support. No way to get saved games out the game electronically to your PC for further analysis. Prone to fatal errors. Program takes over the hard buttons. But the up/down key does not scroll through the games (how abd is that?) No way to scroll through game with running analysis like CT or CG. Game score cannot be shown same time as the board Limited Board sizes and colors (so I am told). Default settings (with pondering) drains battery very fast. Has a tournament mode - it's agood way to drain battery Positives: B&W Board is decent on Palm Vx. Easy to setup positions. (but hard to do analysis see above) Has a tournament mode - may be useful if plugged - but no way to results out of program? Multiple Computer Personalities. User defined Personalities ======================================================== I'm up in the air about strength of engine. ========================================================= I can't recommend it at this time - go way with CT or CG or BOTH. CT is the best value for your money. Strongest program, clean interface, PGN and FEN support, Analysis, multiple engines (4), great support. CG a is a little more limited at this time, a little older engine, but it has classic Genius Engine and the program is written within the Palm OS spirit - very clean and easy to use. The engine Roma won the world championship in its day and also it also has great support (Richard Lang). I alternate back and forth - playing styles are different. Only complaint is that endgame is weak w/o hash tables in both programs. It's not the prgrammers fault - it's the limitation of the Palm. This should be helped by the new Palms.
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