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Subject: Re: CG 1.5 Palm a big dissapointment !

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 07:32:56 12/20/02

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On December 20, 2002 at 05:30:18, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Based on the previous matches performed by the SSDF Chess Genius 1.5 Palm so far
>has performed around 1800 on a 42Mhz PDA. Buying a talking LCD for $35.00 is
>better, and it is close in strength to CG 1.5 Palm.
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/talkinglcd.htm


When I bought CG for Palm (over 2 years ago), CT for Palm did not exist yet.  At
that time, CG for Palm seemed amazingly strong and easy to use given such an
inexpensive PDA.  Having such a nice portable chess program prompted me to get a
color Palm (a Handspring, actually) so the screen would be brighter and clearer.
 Then I started discovering all the other great software for the Palm.

The strength of CG for Palm has not increased much (if at all) since that time;
meanwhile, CT for Palm has come out and is much stronger (and of course I bought
it).  If I were to recommend just one chess program for Palm, it certainly would
be CT as opposed to CG.  However, don't forget that CG was good in the earlier
days and is still a fine piece of software.  It just has much superior
competition now.  That doesn't make CG "bad" -- it just makes CT "great".



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