Author: Travers Waker
Date: 04:31:12 04/17/03
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>chess. You can learn a lot by having it autoplay weaker programs. Fun,fun,fun. Sad, sad, sad. :-) BTW, I also recommend a PDA instead of a stand-alone chess computer. The stand-alone is superior if you want to play blitz on a real board (if it's a sensory one), but otherwise you can just make the moves on a real board while playing the PDA. I have Chess Tiger for Palm, running on a Palm Vx. I'm very happy with it. It could do with some more ways of handicapping it (like being able to handicap it in a 5min per side blitz game), but Christophe says this is not a priority for him because not enough people have requested it. I find this strange, but maybe it's because most of the people who contact him are computer chess enthusiasts and derive more pleasure from knowing they've got a strong chess-playing computer in their pocket than from actually playing against it. Christophe, if you're reading this - please consider adding ways to allow users to handicap Tiger at a particular time control, like 5min blitz. I've actually figured out a way to achieve such handicapping on my Palm Vx: I have Afterburner overclocking utility installed, but instead of overclocking the CPU, I underclock it. Tiger becomes a bit more like a domestic cat (albeit one with a rather wild side) when run at 10MHz! An interesting aside - my impression is that Chess Genius is stronger than Chess Tiger when run at 10MHz, but weaker when run at 20MHz. Maybe Genius's move-ordering is better, or maybe something else? Anyone care to speculate? Anyway, if you're planning on getting a Palm (which means you are planning on buying Chess Tiger and maybe Chess Genius), investigate whether the version of PalmOS the Palm is using has an overclocking/underclocking utility for it as a way of increasing the number of "levels" offered by the program. Afterburner won't work with PalmOS 5 or higher, and I'm not sure if there's an equivalent utility for PalmOS 5. Travers
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