Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:00:55 04/17/03
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On April 17, 2003 at 07:31:12, Travers Waker wrote:
>
>>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
You have 8 trainer levels ranging from complete beginner to experienced player.
Why do you need to underclock the Palm?????
Please see the FAQ at http://www.chesstiger.com (click on the FAQ link).
Christophe
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