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Subject: Re: CG 1.5 Palm a big dissapointment !

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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