Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:07:00 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 04:57:05, stuart taylor wrote:
> People not involved in chess sometimes look upon a great Palm chess program as
>being one of the lowliest little gadgets anyone could think of, and certainly a
>most obvious one. But the greatest of handheld programs (soon to be Christophes
>upcoming Palm program maximised for about 400Mhz (Arm).Is probably far far
>greater in all its aspects than all the great famous old computers of the 1970's
>and perhaps of some from the 1980's. More recent too, but of those, the Palm
>would CRUSH them in every game.
> We should be happy not to be paying ten million dollars for a recent Palm with
>best program in a few months from now, maybe now too. Not more than one person
>should also have the privelage of having one!
> Not to speak of things like Shredder 7.04 on 3Ghz Athlon, which is almost
>nothing today.
>Who wouldn't have paid alot in the early 1980's for a pocket world champion? ANY
>millionaire who understood what it is would have paid $100,000 guranteed!
> One who didn't understand what it is would never even agree to keep it out of
>the garbage (as far as the chess is concerned) for one second!
>It's sometimes hard to explain this to people, I mean to the type who want it in
>the garbage. I sound to them like a real baby, and all their opinion of me goes
>down the drain!
>S.Taylor
Some interesting numbers:
SSDF elo rating of Chess Tiger 14.9a for PalmOS running on Palm m515 @42MHz:
2101 (+/- the usual margin of error that can be found on the SSDF site).
Estimated SSDF elo rating of Chess Tiger 15.0 for PalmOS running on Palm
Tungsten-C @400MHz: 2290 (explanations and formulas can be found at
http://www.chestiger.com, click on the "FAQ" link).
Now here is a list of interesting computers or programs tested by the SSDF:
??? Chess Tiger 15.0 TungstenC (estimate) 2290 ? ? ? ? ?
96 Tasc R30 v. 2.5 2274 41 -38 343 69% 2136
104 Fritz 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2242 18 -19 1438 42% 2299
111 Mephisto London 68 030 36 MHz 2216 71 -63 122 68% 2080
113 Chess Machine 30-32 MHz Schröder 3.1 2205 30 -29 586 64% 2102
137 Chess Tiger 14.9 Palm m515 16MB 42MHz 2101 69 -74 100 39% 2180
144 Mephisto Atlanta SH7000 20 MHz 2087 29 -27 667 68% 1956
154 Sapphire II 2009 34 -32 464 63% 1918
161 Fidelity Mach IV 68020 20 MHz 1974 18 -18 1495 48% 1988
184 Chess Genius 1.5 Palm m515 16MB 42MHz 1870 69 -78 100 32% 2002
185 Mephisto Roma 68000 12 MHz 1869 18 -18 1519 56% 1827
(the last two lines show that a Palm m515 running at 42MHz has approximately the
same processing power as a 68000 running at 12MHz because ChessGenius 1.5 for
Palm has the Mephisto Roma chess engine, source is the Chess Genius web site)
Whe can tell me the SSDF rating of Belle and Cray Blitz?
Christophe
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