Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:52:39 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 04:24:58, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>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
You could simply let the programs fight each other on your Palm, switching
between applications with PhlegmHack or a compatible program.
Chess Tiger has been designed to allow this. When you exit and restart the
program everything is restored in the state you left them: game, position,level,
clocks and even the hash tables are restored.
Christophe
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