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Subject: Re: Strength of Chessmaster for GBA VS Chess Tiger for the Palm??

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:45:54 12/07/02

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On December 07, 2002 at 13:27:59, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 07, 2002 at 10:59:17, Jason Jarrells wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  I was wondering id anyone knew the strength of these 2 programs?  I have been
>>to several websites reguarding both programs but haven't actually seen a rating
>>of either program.  I am guessing that they are around 1800-2000 at the most.
>
>
>
>Chess Tiger 14.9a for Palm is 2101 elo (tested by SSDF).
>
>Chess Tiger 15.0 for Palm (free update for registered users in a few days) will
>be at least 50 elo points stronger (new engine, and allows to use several Mb of
>hash tables instead of 48Kb in the current version).
>
>ChessMaster for the GBA is nowhere near.
>
>    Christophe

Probably true. Preliminary, quick, and very unscientific testing seemed to
indicate that CM for the GBA would be around 1950-2000 at its toughest setting.
I don't think anybody has done any serious testing with it yet. I have the
cartridge, but I don't have a GBA! :-)

jm



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