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Subject: Re: Chessmaster for the Palms

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 01:24:58 01/23/03

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On January 22, 2003 at 20:11:43, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 22, 2003 at 18:28:16, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 22, 2003 at 18:14:45, William H Rogers wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know how stong the Chessmaster program is that was designed to run
>>>on the Palms is. All of the advertising only states that it has 16
>>>personalities.
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>It is weak. And it's full of bugs. But check it by yourself...
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>I haven't heard anybody say that the first of those two statements is true. I
>wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't as strong as CT, but I don't think it is
>particularly weak. I have even heard some say that the engine was the only good
>part of the program. But I haven't actually seen any strength comparisons
>between it and CT for the Palm.
>
>However, the bugs part (or, rather, just general bad interface design) appears
>to be true.
>
>jm


Since I own a Plam m515 and Chessmaster, CT, and CG for the Palm we could make
once a strength comparison of the programs on the ICC on a free day, if anyone
is interested. Maybe one or two round robins at short thinking time.

regards
Andy



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