Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 14:18:49 05/23/03
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On May 23, 2003 at 16:52:44, Steve Maughan wrote: >Chess Genius for the PocketPC has been nominated for the Handango Top Games 2003 >award for the Pocket PC. It's one of three games to be nominated. > >http://www.handango.com/finalists2003.htm > >Regards, > >Steve Maughan Congrats to Richard Lang -- long time world championship chess programmer who has just an excellent chess program that is a "classic" for the pocket pc in chess genius. Probably one of the tougher programs if not the toughest on a handheld device at 2 or 3 seconds per move. (note I haven't seen one of the souped-up Palms yet, but once Theron's program goes native - that could very well take the top spot.). I also like Pocket Grandmaster and Pocket Fritz - all 3 are a "must" in the Pocket PC world of chess programs - PGM comes with 3 different chess programs and a ton of differnt settings, PF has excellent database capabilities and CG has a superb clean, simple , functional GUI that is intuitively easy to operate. IMO all 3 are roughly equal in strength with the PF and PGM (using Ruffian) perhaps a tad stronger than CG at longer tome controls (but most people play these devices at blitz and all 3 are very close in blitz IMO). PF2 would be stronger than PF1 - but not by much and it nearly $50 or double the cost of PF1. There is also Pocket Chess Partner - weaker than the 3 above - and it is the program I use when I want to give myself a chance to win on a a more regular basis - which can make it more fun ;>) ... I play all of them as it gives me 6 different engines to choose from. Mike
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