Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 00:08:42 12/16/02
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On December 16, 2002 at 01:04:28, Christophe Theron wrote: >Actually switching to faster processors will in my opinion make the gap >between ChessGenius and Chess Tiger even bigger. I mean when they both are >running in native ARM code. That wouldn't surprise me. Genius seems to profit less from faster hardware compared to most other programs. I still hope to see an ARM-native version of Genius, though (it is nice to have more than one strong program to play against). >>I have now played with Chess Tiger for a couple of days, and I am very >>impressed by the number of features you have been able to pack into such a >>small program, > >Easy: the same source code is used for both Chess Tiger for PC and for Chess >Tiger for Palm. This is also something that impresses me very much about Tiger. The same exact engine performs very well on slow handhelds as well as the fastest desktop computers. I doubt that most other top programs would still play well when slowed down by a factor of more than 100. >> and that the program is able to play a decent game of chess >>despite searching at such a low speed (around 300--400 nps on the Tungsten T, >>it typically reaches 3 or 4 plies in the middle game at 5 minutes/game). My >>estimate is that the playing strength is around 1700-1800 elo on my Palm >>(while Genius feels more like 1400-1500). > >Chess Tiger for Palm has been evaluated at 2100 SSDF elo. That should be close >to 2100 FIDE elo. > >Even if it is twice as slow on your Palm, it should still be above 2000 elo. I have noticed the rating of CT on the SSDF list, but it seems to me that the level of the list is at least 200 points too high. I guesstimate my own playing strength to be at most 1900 (I haven't played tournament chess the last ten years, except a handful of team games), and I score around 60% in blitz games against CT. I always head for open, sharp positions, hence my style should not be particulary effective against computers. Either I am a much stronger player than I believe (which is unfortunately very unlikely), or the level of the SSDF list is far too high. Tord
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