Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 04:33:05 12/13/02
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. The most that you would get is 180 Elo points. Plus you need to wait for Chess Tiger 15 for Palm Pichard. 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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