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Subject: Re: Sony Clie are getting faster, great for Chess Tiger for Palm owners

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:57:33 12/13/02

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On December 12, 2002 at 00:49:28, Christophe Theron wrote:

>>>Chess Tiger 15.0 is PalmOS 5 ready. That means it works fine on PalmOS 5.
>>>
>>>There will be an ARM-optimized version later.
>
>>what is the estimated gain of this arm version later
>
>Something like ten times faster. An increase of 200 to 250 elo points.

This is excellent news!  I received my Tungsten T (my first handheld computer)
yesterday.  Of course, Chess Tiger and Chess Genius were among the first
programs I downloaded.  Unfortunately, I did not succeed in registering
Chess Tiger yesterday night (some web page failed to load -- probably just
a temporary problem, I will try again tonight), so Chess Genius is still the
only handheld program I have tested at full strength.  After playing a couple
of blitz games against CG on the bus this morning, I am very disappointed by
the playing strength (in particular, CG seems to have an extremely limited
understanding of king safety), and I'm afraid I will also not be satisfied
with the current version of CT, even if it's 100-200 elo points stronger.
If the speed improves by a factor of 10, however, I am sure it will be strong
enough.

I also have a question regarding the (non-ARM-optimized) CT15.  Will the new
version support the 320x320 resolution?  CT14.9 looks somewhat ugly compared
to CG1.6 on my hi-res screen.

Of course, I would also like to do some development for my Palm myself.
What development tools do you use?  Do you have any books or other resources
to recommend?

Tord




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