Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 04:39:49 12/20/02
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On December 20, 2002 at 06:43:28, Uri Blass wrote: >What time control do you use? >Do you use 120/40 time control? No, because there would probably be next to no battery power left on my Clie (come to think of it, that makes the SSDF tests highly unrealistic :) 10-20 minutes a game is my usual. >The ssdf games were done at 120/40 >The ssdf also give wrong rating to the low computers and you should add 100 elo >so you should give palm tiger a rating of 2200 and not 2100 and I guess that >palm genius may get rating of 1900 if it has 1800 based on the ssdf. > >I can add that I see no reason to be disappointed from a new program of richard >lang. > >In the last 8 years there is no improvement or almost no improvement in genius >so I simply exepect nothing from him. I think he has gone the opposite way from everyone else ... trying to squeeze more or less the same program into less and less. This is a commendable sentiment - makes a change from 'is PentiumVI/14GHz best for chess?'* - and blazed the trail for PDAs; I wonder how many other programs would not have existed had Genius not appeared first on various platforms. Alastair * I know this is becoming my equivalent of 'all your base are belong to us' but I can't help making fun of the mindset behind it ;)
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